Roomy .space (alpha-4)
New domain on roomy.space; backend-switch to Jazz for better performance and access controls; BeeKEM decentralized E2EE explained; notification markers for mentions & unreads.| Muni Blog
New domain on roomy.space; backend-switch to Jazz for better performance and access controls; BeeKEM decentralized E2EE explained; notification markers for mentions & unreads.| Muni Blog
Rather than being resigned to a story of "company as a future adversary", we can utilize the framework of steward-ownership to reify our vision for "company as a future commons".| Muni Blog
A whole bunch of first-pass features; A path towards Roomy/Weird convergence; Temporary Backend Pivot (building on jazz.tools 🎶 for production-readiness).| Muni Blog
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.| Muni Blog
This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.| Muni Blog
🍵 To fully inhabit the World Wide Web you must also embody your virtual self within it. For a lot of us the “simple” prospect of filling in a web page with content presents an insurmountable writer’s block. The decision to make a personal website| Muni Blog
In the virtual world we think of digital gardens first and foremost as individual, personalized spaces. Yet in our physical cities the pro-social concept of Community Gardens is much beloved and far more accessible to the majority of city dwellers.| Muni Blog
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| Muni Blog
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| Muni Blog
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.| Muni Blog
Mindfully growing a non-extractive company towards a 'steward ownership' end state.| Muni Blog
'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| Muni Blog
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! Our new design for Personal Pages landing shortly, courtesy of Design by| Muni Blog
Recently Christine Lemmer-Webber shared her 'recipe for the fediverse'. Let's see whether Leaf can meet her requirements.| Muni Blog
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.| Muni Blog
A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat.| Muni Blog
