On-protocol Organizing
Fighting bad networks with good networks.
Erlend Sogge Heggen
https://writing.exchange/@erlend
Roomy Events, by OpenMeet
While Roomy is now quitely operational with a growing handful of pilot spaces, before we make a grander reveal about that particular milestone we have another exciting Report from the Atmosphere to share in the meantime. Events for organizing Events planning is an essential affordance in the world of organizing,
Vision
Village-scale resilience
The end-of-the-world already happened, it's just not evenly distributed. But with every end is a new beginning.
Vision
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
Vision
Digital Strategy for Organisations
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing. Open Social protocols bridge the gap.
Vision
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
Sustainability
Company as a Commons
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.
Roomy
Roomy Chat Alpha 3
A whole bunch of first-pass features; A path towards Roomy/Weird convergence; Temporary Backend Pivot (building on jazz.tools 🎶 for production-readiness).
pillars
Resolving the content-creation imperative
To fully inhabit the World Wide Web you must fully embody your virtual self within it 🍵
Roomy
Chatty Community Gardens
Group chat is fertile soil for low-stakes ideation. With tending, seeds of thought can grow into structured, evergreen knowledge.
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
development
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.
status-quo
Weird inc.
Mindfully growing a non-extractive company towards a 'steward ownership' end state.
pillars
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
status-quo
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
Weird
Leaf, ATProto and ActivityPub
How does Leaf Protocol compare to AtProto and ActivityPub?