NextGraph and related technology triggers some thoughts around Tilde Friends.

I feel like the old man in the whorehouse in Catch 22.

Tilde Friends is a poor, weak platform. It is receiving no grant money. It's written in a dusty old language. It has no flashy marketing. It doesn't do containers, GraphQL, IoT, semantic web, or LLM. I struggle to even CSS the thing properly.

That is why it will all succeed. We can't lose funding. It's not even that much code. It can only get better. Rewrite parts or all if it using some other tech if makes you happy. Publish it or don't. Secure Scuttlebutt can go away, whatever that means, but this will all still continue to function. The idea lives on, and this Tilde Friends implementation and public instance live as long as I am able to support them.

Come join us as we write code in our web browsers. It's fun.

But honestly I hope all of these sorts of initiatives succeed or at least enjoy a good ride.