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@@ -3,30 +3,18 @@ honk
 -- features
 
 Take control of your honks.
-Join the federation in the fight against the evil empire.
 
-Send honks. Receive honks. And not just honks.
-Bonk, donk, zonk, all your favorite activities are here.
-
-Public RSS.
-
-Custom emus. Memes too.
-
-Purple color scheme.
+An ActivityPub server focused on minimal setup and support costs.
+Spend more time using the software and less time operating it.
 
 No attention mining.
 No likes, no faves, no polls, no stars, no claps, no counts.
 
+Purple color scheme. Custom emus. Memes too.
+Avatars automatically assigned by the NSA.
+
 The button to submit a new honk says "it's gonna be honked".
 
-Avatars assigned by the NSA.
-
-Automatic image attachment debloating.
-
-Minimal setup and configuration.
-
-Written in gotesque, an especially grotesque dialect of golang.
-
 -- build
 
 It should be sufficient to type make after unpacking a release.
@@ -36,39 +24,26 @@ Even on a fast machine, building from source can take several seconds.
 
 Development sources: hg clone https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk
 
--- requirements
-
-libsqlite3 (you probably already have it)
-
-go 1.11+
-
-Internet connection not included.
-
 -- setup
 
 honk expects to be fronted by a TLS terminating reverse proxy.
 
 First, create the database. This will ask four questions.
-
 ./honk init
-
 username: (the username you want)
 password: (the password you want)
 listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.)
 servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com)
 
 Then run honk.
-
 ./honk
 
-Refer also to the docs directory, in particular manual.txt.
-
-Busy honk instances may use megabytes of memory.
-
 -- upgrade
 
 cp honk.db backup.db
-
 ./honk upgrade
-
 ./honk
+
+-- documentation
+
+There is a more complete manual. This is just the README.