Scaling sustainability as an indie company

In which we abuse permission sets to create virtual custom scopes for the arbiter.

hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods

Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.

A community platform integrated with the AT Protocol

The first arbiter prototype is live!

decentralized networking is best realized with decentralized ownership

A love letter to the Atmosphere

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 Disc...

My Experiences with the Team @ Roomy

come in, we have a lot to share

the door's open

Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.

A new policy-based arbiter prototype and a draft of an interoperable lexicon for group servers.

Lots of implementation progress & lots of discussion with the community.

I believe having good abstractions is key to writing good code. But as a coder, I often write code in an effort to find those abstractions…

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto

YouTube video by Zicklag

@meri.garden and @zicklag.dev on stream discussing the ATProto permissioned spaces proposal, Stratos, opensocial.community and other work on community management on ATProto, working towards a generic ...

Come hang out with us on the livestream as @zicklag.dev from @roomy.space and @lou.gg & otterlord.dev from @colibri.social nerd it out about making group chat applications on atproto. * https://coli...

We've said Roomy's was like a PDS, but what if it actually was a PDS?

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 sh...