Vision
The end-of-the-world already happened, it's just not evenly distributed. But with every end is a new beginning.
Roomy
For the last couple months we've been iterating on Roomy with its brand-new architecture, and we're finally ready to talk in more detail about the not-so-secret sauce that will power Roomy moving forward.
Vision
We have to talk about open source licensing.
Vision
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing. Open Social protocols bridge the gap.
Vision
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
Roomy
An overview of Roomy’s architectural iterations, from past to present.
Roomy
A new Roomy release! This update includes a new website, an update UI, a work-in-progress Discord bridge, and lots of lessons learned.
Roomy
New domain on roomy.space; backend-switch to Jazz for better performance and access controls; BeeKEM decentralized E2EE explained; notification markers for mentions & unreads.
Sustainability
What if excess wealth derived from business couldn't be privatized? Through the levers of steward-ownership, companies can protect their purpose-oriented long term mission from the maligned incentives of absentee stakeholders.
A whole bunch of first-pass features; A path towards Roomy/Weird convergence; Temporary Backend Pivot (building on jazz.tools 🎶 for production-readiness).
The roomy.chat demo is back online! We've got new features and a totally revamped database. Let's unpack the state of Roomy with the latest update.
This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.
To fully inhabit the World Wide Web you must fully embody your virtual self within it 🍵
Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.
A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat.
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
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
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.
Mindfully growing a non-extractive company towards a 'steward ownership' end state.
'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
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
