Networked community gardens in the interwebs.
Millions of digital communities have already made a home for themselves on Discord, and we'd rather not force them to make a binary choice between the critical mass of members they've built up on Discord and the agency afforded to them on Roomy.
Fighting bad networks with good networks.
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,
The end-of-the-world already happened, it's just not evenly distributed. But with every end is a new beginning.
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.
We have to talk about open source licensing.
Digital power is created through the interplay of mobilizing and organizing. Open Social protocols bridge the gap.
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
An overview of Roomy’s architectural iterations, from past to present.
A new Roomy release! This update includes a new website, an update UI, a work-in-progress Discord bridge, and lots of lessons learned.
New domain on roomy.space; backend-switch to Jazz for better performance and access controls; BeeKEM decentralized E2EE explained; notification markers for mentions & unreads.
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.