@roomy.space - our digital community garden for knowledge cultivation - has taken a long time to get right. Long enough that some people lost faith in us along the way, and that's fair. We'll try our best to earn it back. Spare me a moment to reflect on *why* this thing needed to bake a bit longer.

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Many Europeans want to be free of American and Chinese Big Tech apps. Open, decentralized protocols like ActivityPub (powering Mastodon) and AT Protocol (powering Bluesky) may be the key to a new sovereign social media infrastructure.

@erlend.sh asked me to turn this sketch into v1 of a logo for @roomy.space. how did i do?

Heads up to anyone using @roomy.space! We just moved the current version of Roomy and all of it's data to old.roomy.space in case you login and wonder where all your stuff went.

Just threw together some quick notes on what self-hosting @roomy.space will look like. It's fun because you've got options! Any combination of it's three components can be self-hosted by anybody without isolating you at all from the wider network.

Finally submitted my proposal to present about @roomy.space for #ATmosphereConf 😎

We've been iterating on @roomy.space's event schema recently and one of the changes has been to make an ATProto lexicon for it. Here's are the work-in-progress lexicons for the curious: gist.github.com/zicklag/94c6... These are auto-generated from the arktype.io types Roomy uses internally.

local first vs atproto!! what should the source of truth for group data be?

I'm extremely excited about getting Roomy really working in the very near future. It's been nearly a year since I threw together a wild experiment that let you log into a jerry rigged Matrix client with an ATProto account.

Right now the service endpoint is an HTTP server, and it uses socket.io for realtime communication. BUT it's extremely feasible that in the future we could let you use an @iroh.computer ticket as a service endpoint and you could serve your Leaf space over a peer-to-peer network connection.

We already have an explorer app for Leaf that can be used to query from streams! You can use it to send events too. It's kind of like the excellent @pdsls.dev but for Leaf. Here is the first event sent in a Roomy "personal stream". You might notice it looks kind of like an XRPC call.

Nerds behold, the very first Leaf stream DID: did:plc:tqd32oyrvfdkzh62zmk3tftv Soon every space in @roomy.space shall have it's own Leaf stream with it's own DID.

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @zeu.dev with Message Gardening in the Atmosphere with Roomy Chat (@roomy.space)

me and @zicklag.dev working on a bunch of stuff towards making @roomy.space more ATProto-y atm 😊 DIDs for spaces and lexicons for events ✌🏻

I'm happy to go with it for now without feeling like I'm going to regret it later. Also, it's a DID, so at least there's some standardization and ability to swap it out with another method later if necessary. PS: we're going to be using DID PLC for space identifiers in @roomy.space.

I just finished a new blog post that talks about how @roomy.space's new server is going to work. I explain where the data is stored, how we do authorization, how we preserve data ownership without the PDS, and more. It's a big one!

"In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?" fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...

NEW VIDEO: Thanks to our anti-social social order, many people are struggling with a lack of community in their lives. I believe we can change that. Let's revisit the village of the past, then sketch out a radical vision for the future of community. youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q

shoutout to @roomy.space for not using transition:generic! look how clean those oauth scopes are 🥹

We've been getting some great @roomy.space testing the last few days thanks to the people who have joined our early alpha sandbox space at roomy.space/roomy.space! We're a little overdue for a solid explanation of how the latest version works, and that is coming soon.

Hello dear reader, are you by any chance familiar with #tauri on #f-droid or with #gradle in general?

For @atproto.berlin there is a roomy now roomy.space/atproto.berlin

Hey @atproto.boston @atproto.com.br & @atproto.london if you want your own Roomy instance like.. roomy.space/atproto.no roomy.space/roomy.berlin All you need to do is log into roomy.space using your org account, and then opt to use that domain in the space settings. Next, a local-orgs webring.

first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space also first time making an icon at all ☺️

The latest experimental release of Roomy has pages! Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG. They also track the edit history like a wiki!

bluesky needs group chats so bad

inventing a new app called "chat" where it's like chatgpt but you get to talk to humans

Just finished some performance tuning for @roomy.space. The UI can load an entire space containing 55k messages from the server and index it in the local database in 10 seconds! 😲 The entire space history!! New features may slow some of that down, but there is still room for more speed, too.

We deployed our latest code and new architecture to roomy.space, but things are still very experimental. We are able to use the UI work from the previous version of Roomy, but it isn't "plugged in" yet, so most features are not fully functional. Getting those things working again is th next step!

Heads up! roomy.chat is now called @roomy.space! Roomy will let you start with chat, but grow that into so much more long term. The new name reflects the nature of giving you room to share whatever you need in your personal and communal spaces.

I think the big chunk missing right now to fully use atproto without bsky is for independent appviews to stop adopting their bans, and to achieve real full independence we need lighter appviews. The relays are kinda optional, by the way You may want to check this out blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt...

We've been hard at work for the last month on a new @roomy.chat architecture that we hope will get us into production: A Brief History of Roomy's Architectures blog.muni.town/brief-histor... I'm very excited about the new design and the performance that we're showing on our initial tests!

We just finished a new @roomy.chat release! See what's new in alpha 5: blog.muni.town/roomy-space-...

narrative update Jazz isn’t replacing databases and backends Jazz isn’t local-first only Jazz isn’t a sync engine only Jazz is simply a *new kind* of database 🧵

A lot of first-timers on an atproto-platform will want to sign themselves in the way they’re used to, with their “social login” of choice, i.e. Google, Facebook, GitHub etc. Onboard first, challenge the Social-ID primacy later. @roomy.chat team is up-streaming SSO in @atproto.com reference PDS.

This weeks atproto news: - Zeppelin is a new full-network appview, allowing you to use the Bluesky network without Bluesky PBC's infrastructure - @roomy.chat shows the alignment and struggles of combining atproto with local-first computing connectedplaces.online/reports/atmo...

Two weeks after alpha-3 which foreshadowed our move to @jazz.tools for greater stability, alpha-4 gets it done! blog.muni.town/roomy-space-... Special shoutout to @flo-bit.dev who took the lead on this release. Up next is bridging so Roomy & Discord (later Matrix) folk can share the same space.

I'm pretty excited about @inkandswitch.com's Keyhive project, and I really wanted to feel solid on the novel key management approach they use called BeeKEM - so I wrote this explainer article about it! Tysm to @expede.wtf for helping me make some sense of you and the team's work ✨

I did not know Mikeal personally, but his thinking on Open Source community cultivation will forever remain a core tenet of my work. We continue his legacy by making humane technology in service of fellow human beings, never the other way around. medium.com/the-node-js-...

Rather than being resigned to a story of "company as a future adversary" (no judgement; plz read the article) we can utilize the framework of steward-ownership to reify our vision for "company as a future commons". blog.muni.town/company-as-c... This is how @roomy.chat will work as a company.

Roomy alpha-3 is out! blog.muni.town/roomy-chat-a... While there are lots of additions inside, it's sorta an intermediary release as we're still finishing up a significant backend transition, but this was a good opportunity to talk a bit about how @roomy.chat relates to its sibling project Weird.

Logged by @michaelschultz.com here: github.com/muni-town/ro...

with discord making bolder moves to just fuck us does any of my moots wanna start a @roomy.chat server with me? it's atproto based :< my discord community is pretty small so I didn't think it was worth the effort moving but maybe we the bluesky gang can have a group chat??? just us the cool peeps

@zeu.dev and #svelte folk, any recommendations on best practice here?

As an app-maker, as a start-state, it’s soo nice to be able to defer Accounts Management and Personal Data Storage to trusted 3rd parties. Bluesky is just the first of many in @roomy.chat’s ‘bring-your-own-ID’ strategy. Soon the options will include @blacksky.app @transrights.northsky.social etc.

i have been running internet communities for about 20 years at this point (and that number is not a joke). not always well, mind, i have and continue to fuck up in innovative ways even now. but like. there are reasons these things (migrations) are happening. idk. thread time? is that how you do it

first working build of @roomy.chat on android made with @svelte.dev and @tauri.app coming soon™️ to a repo (and store? 👀) near you