ATProto Isn't What You Think

This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.

Resolving the content-creation imperative

To fully inhabit the World Wide Web you must fully embody your virtual self within it 🍵

Chatty Community Gardens

Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.

Roomy Deep Dive: ATProto + Automerge

A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat.

Roomy Chat - Alpha

Roomy is (becoming) an open source group chat application. It's similar in scope to Discord, but built on open standards like ATproto for social discovery and Automerge for peer-to-peer connectivity. About 2 weeks ago we received a generous grant from Skyseed to develop a chat prototype on top of the

Weird v0.4 - Themes & Revisions

Three weeks have passed since our public MVP reveal. We're thrilled to report that all 25 early-bird slots have sold out; thank you! 😍 Nerd-tier Weird will still be available for just $25/yr (half price) during the next several months of our beta period. One year of service guaranteed Seeing

Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!

Make a $10 bet on where Weird will be in a year from now, and we will do our very best not to disappoint. Every paying customer is also an automatic stakeholder in the Weird indie enterprise.

Weird inc.

Mindfully growing a non-extractive company towards a 'steward ownership' end state.

Data Defragmentation

'Weird the data importer' is our wedge into the data fortresses keeping our digital identities captive. PESOS - Recenter the publishing pipeline PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site. It's a syndication model where publishing starts by posting to a 3rd party service, followed by

Weird 2025

As it stands today, Weird is best understood as a single-page website generator, i.e. a minimalistic CMS. You put in some basic details about yourself and then, like an html-enchanted llama, Weird will spit out a website! As the end of this year draws near let's take stock of

Capabilities & Identity with Leaf

Recently Christine Lemmer-Webber shared her 'recipe for the fediverse'. Let's see whether Leaf can meet her requirements.

Leaf, ATProto and ActivityPub

How does Leaf Protocol compare to AtProto and ActivityPub?