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# Tilde Friends
Tilde Friends is a tool for making and sharing.
Tilde Friends participates in the Secure Scuttlebutt decentralized social
network while also functioning as a platform for making, sharing, and running
web applications.
A public instance lives at https://www.tildefriends.net/.
It is both a peer-to-peer social network client, participating in Secure
Scuttlebutt, as well as a platform for writing and running web applications.
## Goals
1. Make it easy and fun to run all sorts of web applications.
2. Provide security that is easy to understand and protects your data.
3. Make creating and sharing web applications accessible to anyone with a
browser.
1. Be the fanciest, best-maintained Secure Scuttlebutt client in town.
1. Make it easy to make, share, and run all sorts of applications while
respecting the privacy and safety of your data.
## Getting the Source
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### Requirements
On Linux only, system OpenSSL libraries (`libssl-dev`, in debian-speak) are
assumed to be available.
System OpenSSL libraries are assumed to be available on Haiku and OpenSSL.
On MacOS, Xcode's command-line tools are expected to be available.
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further options.
The first user to create an account and log in will be granted administrative
privileges. Further administration can be done at
privileges. Further administration can be done in the `admin` app at
<http://localhost:12345/~core/admin/>.
## Documentation

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# Inspiration
This is an ever-growing list of software that is similar to what Tilde Friends tries to be but as far as I can tell don't quite fit the same niche.
- Secure Scuttlebutt Clients