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# Patchwork
**Patchwork is in active development. <a href="http://ssbc.github.io/">Sign up for our mailing list</a>, and we'll notify you when it's ready to use.**
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Patchwork is a peer-to-peer network for sharing social feeds and open-source software. It gives you freedom to meet and collaborate online without surrendering ownership of your data.
Patchwork is a peer-to-peer application for sharing social feeds.
Patchwork isn't a website: it runs on your computer and syncs over the Internet or WiFi. User-tracking and advertisements are actively prevented, and user applications are fully supported.
Patchwork isn't a website: it runs on your computer and syncs over the Internet or WiFi.
User-tracking and advertisements are actively prevented.
<a href="http://ssbc.github.io/">Learn more</a>
![Hermies the Hermit Crab](https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/10190339?v=3&s=200)
[Built with Secure Scuttlebutt](https://github.com/ssbc/docs)
## Running Patchwork
**Dependencies:**
Current install steps are:
```
# Linux dependencies
apt-get install automake
# OSX dependencies
brew install automake
# ubuntu
apt-get install automake libtool
# osx
brew install automake libtool
```
Also, you'll need to use iojs@2.
The easiest way to get this is [nvm](https://github.com/creationix/nvm).
```
nvm install iojs-v2.5.0
```
Then, install the software:
```
git clone https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork.git
cd patchwork
npm install
npm start
```
**Start connecting by joining a pub server**
And then join a pub server.
Check out the list of active servers [here](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot/wiki/Pub-Servers)

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