😎 Tilde Friends
Make apps and friends from the comfort of your web browser.
Tilde Friends is a platform for building, running, and sharing web
applications.
Available for lots of devices:
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Getting Started
First-time user checklist:
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Download
Tilde Friends and run your own instance, or use
https://www.tildefriends.net/.
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Create an account to identify yourself with that instance by
username and password.
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Create an SSB identity in the ssb app. This will generate a
keypair used to identify yourself to other users and sign your
messages so that they can be verified as from you.
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Describe yourself in your profile in the ssb app. Give
yourself a name and an avatar if you like.
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Connect to others. You will automatically discover peers on the
same instance and same network if there are any. Or use
rooms
and pubs to reach more distant users.
tildefriends.net itself
operates as a room, so you can connect and see who else is online
and establish a connection.
- Follow people to grow your network.
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Use the edit link at the top of any page to start modifying
and making apps.
Built for Sharing
Tilde Friends participates in the
Secure Scuttlebutt distributed
social network.
Share apps with friends. Discover new apps made by enemies. Post
pictures of your coffee. Or just lurk.
The social network integration provides tools for connecting with
other people world-wide while still allowing apps and everything to
operate offline.
Edit Anything
See that edit link near the top left corner of
this page? It's there for every Tilde Friends app, so you can modify
and see your changes right away.
It's kind of like a wiki, but for code!
Sandbox Security
Tilde Friends tries to make sure apps can be trusted using similar
techniques to how web browsers and operating systems do it.
This is all a work in progress, and it varies by platform, so don't
give it all your innermost secrets yet, but do kick its tires and
share any surprises you
find.
Trusted Technology
Tilde Friends is built using boring, trusted tech.
Though of course for building Tilde Friends apps, you are free to use
whatever fits.
