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/.

Goals

Be the fanciest, best-maintained Secure Scuttlebutt client in town.

Make it easy to make, share, and run all sorts of applications while respecting the privacy and safety of your data.

Getting the Source

Tilde Friends uses git submodules, so either:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends.git

or:

git clone https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends.git
cd tildefriends
git submodule update --init --recursive

The .tar.xz source releases are all-inclusive.

Building

Builds on Linux (x86_64 and aarch64), MacOS, OpenBSD, and Haiku. It's possible to build for Android, iOS, and Windows on Linux, if you have the right dependencies in the right places.

Requirements

System OpenSSL libraries are assumed to be available on Haiku and OpenSSL.

On MacOS, Xcode's command-line tools are expected to be available.

Build Commands

Run make with no arguments to see available build targets and options. make debug is a good place to start.

To build in docker, docker build ..

make format and make prettier will normalize formatting to the coding standard.

Running

By default, running the built out/debug/tildefriends executable will start a web server at http://localhost:12345/. It expects to be run with the repository root as the current working directory. tildefriends -h lists further options.

The first user to create an account and log in will be granted administrative privileges. Further administration can be done in the admin app at http://localhost:12345/~core/admin/.

Documentation

Docs live here: https://docs.tildefriends.net/.

License

All code unless otherwise noted in is provided under the MIT license.