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From: Cory McWilliams <cory@unprompted.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:28:07 -0500
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+# Tilde Friends Vision
+
+Tilde Friends is a tool for making and sharing.
+
+It is both a peer-to-peer social network client, participating in Secure
+Scuttlebutt, and an environment for creating and running web applications.
+
+## Why
+
+This is a thing that I wanted to exist and wanted to work on. No other reason.
+There is not a business model. I believe it is interesting and unique.
+
+## 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.
+
+## Ways to Use Tilde Friends
+
+1. **Social Network User**: This is a social network first. You are just here,
+   because your friends are. Or you like how we limit your message length or
+   short videos or whatever the trend is. If you are ambitious, you click links
+   and see interactive experiences (apps) that you wouldn't see elsewhere.
+
+2. **Web Visitor**: You get links from a friend to meeting invites, polls, games,
+   lists, wiki pages, ..., and you interact with them as though they were
+   cloud-hosted by a megacorporation. They just work, and you don't think twice.
+
+3. **Group leader**: You host or use a small public instance, installing apps for
+   a group of friends to use as web visitors.
+
+4. **Developer**: You like to write code and make or improve apps for fun or to
+   solve problems. When you encounter a Tilde Friends app on a strange server,
+   you know you can trivially modify it or download it to your own instance.
+
+## Future Goals / Endgame
+
+1. Mobile apps. This can run on your old phone. Maybe you won't be hosting
+   the web interface publicly, but you can sync, install and edit apps, and
+   otherwise get the full experience from a tiny touch screen.
+
+2. The universal application runtime. The web browser is the universal
+   platform, but even for the simplest application that you might want to host
+   for your friends, cloud hosting, containers, and complicated dependencies might
+   all enter the mix. Tilde Friends, though it is yet another thing to host,
+   includes everything you need out of the box to run a vast variety of interesting
+   apps.
+
+   Tilde Friends will be built out, gradually providing safe access to host
+   resources and client resources the same way web browsers extended access to
+   resources like GPU, persistent storage, cameras, ... over the years.
+
+   Not much effort has been put forward yet to having a robust, long-lasting API,
+   but since the client side longevity is already handled by web browsers, it
+   seems possible that the server-side API can be managed in a similar way.
+
+3. An awesome development environment. Right now it runs JavaScript from the
+   first embeddable text editor I could poorly configure enough to edit code,
+   but it could incorporate a debugger, source control integration a la ssb-git,
+   merge tools, and transpiling from all sorts of different languages.
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