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# Tilde Friends Vision
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Tilde Friends is a tool for making and sharing.
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It is both a peer-to-peer social network client, participating in Secure
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Scuttlebutt, and an environment for creating and running web applications.
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## Why
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This is a thing that I wanted to exist and wanted to work on. No other reason.
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There is not a business model. I believe it is interesting and unique.
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## Goals
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1. Make it **easy and fun** to run all sorts of web applications.
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2. Provide **security** that is easy to understand and protects your data.
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3. Make **creating and sharing** web applications accessible to anyone with a
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browser.
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## Ways to Use Tilde Friends
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1. **Social Network User**: This is a social network first. You are just here,
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because your friends are. Or you like how we limit your message length or
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short videos or whatever the trend is. If you are ambitious, you click links
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and see interactive experiences (apps) that you wouldn't see elsewhere.
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2. **Web Visitor**: You get links from a friend to meeting invites, polls, games,
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lists, wiki pages, ..., and you interact with them as though they were
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cloud-hosted by a megacorporation. They just work, and you don't think twice.
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3. **Group leader**: You host or use a small public instance, installing apps for
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a group of friends to use as web visitors.
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4. **Developer**: You like to write code and make or improve apps for fun or to
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solve problems. When you encounter a Tilde Friends app on a strange server,
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you know you can trivially modify it or download it to your own instance.
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## Future Goals / Endgame
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1. Mobile apps. This can run on your old phone. Maybe you won't be hosting
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the web interface publicly, but you can sync, install and edit apps, and
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otherwise get the full experience from a tiny touch screen.
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2. The universal application runtime. The web browser is the universal
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platform, but even for the simplest application that you might want to host
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for your friends, cloud hosting, containers, and complicated dependencies might
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all enter the mix. Tilde Friends, though it is yet another thing to host,
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includes everything you need out of the box to run a vast variety of interesting
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apps.
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Tilde Friends will be built out, gradually providing safe access to host
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resources and client resources the same way web browsers extended access to
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resources like GPU, persistent storage, cameras, ... over the years.
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Not much effort has been put forward yet to having a robust, long-lasting API,
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but since the client side longevity is already handled by web browsers, it
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seems possible that the server-side API can be managed in a similar way.
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3. An awesome development environment. Right now it runs JavaScript from the
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first embeddable text editor I could poorly configure enough to edit code,
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but it could incorporate a debugger, source control integration a la ssb-git,
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merge tools, and transpiling from all sorts of different languages.
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