Welcome to
~😎 Tilde Friends.

- Secure Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social network.
- Tilde Friends, the application platform that you are using right now.
- How to get started if you want to get gossiping right away.

Secure Scuttlebutt is a social network whose technical operation attempts to mirror human social interaction.

- You can create your own account and post to your own feed on your own device. This is all local with no external communication. This puts you fully in control of your own words and actions.
- Before you can interact with others, you need to connect over the network, either directly to your friends (i.e., peer-to-peer between your phones on coffee shop Wi-Fi) or to 🚪rooms and 🍻pubs (hint: search the web for #ssbroom).
- Who you choose to follow determines what you see, with most people choosing to see messages from friends and friends of those friends. If you encounter content you'd rather not see, block the offending account to improve the experience for you and your followers.
- Your feed is an immutable log of your activity. Post with care, because like your words in real life, posts can't be taken back.

Tilde Friends is an application platform that is an application of its own.

- This intro is a Tilde Friends app. You can click edit at the top to look under the hood and make changes.
- It is already possible to make and share new applications using only Tilde Friends and Secure Scuttlebutt without having to set up development environments, configure web servers, register domain names, or pay for hosting services.
- But it's also set up so that you can't just break an app that everybody is using or do malicious things with personal content. There are protections in place like an operating system. The intent is also for it to be safe to run strange apps without worrying about adverse effects.
- But this is all a big 🚧work in progress🚧 and experiment. Let's see where it takes us.

The button below will take you to the Secure Scuttlebutt app.

- Remember:
  1. You are in charge. This is all on your device.
  2. Make network connections to exchange messages with others.
  3. Follow more accounts to see more content, and block those posting content you'd rather not see.
  4. Be respectful, and consider the consequences of what you post.
  5. This is all under active development. Exercise patience, and report issues encountered.
- To see this tutorial again later, select apps -> Core Apps -> intro.

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