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

I suggest @roomy.chat!

@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

We’re pretty much ready to fully hand the reins over to whoever wants to set up our merch operation on our behalf, as long as they’d make sure to find a sufficiently eco-friendly provider for such a thing; I believe there are a handful of B-corp certified merch companies to choose between now..

Open source isn’t just for engineers. It’s for anyone who’s tired of trusting black boxes. 🔥

pls roomy save us @roomy.chat

This is your time to shine @roomy.chat

Gonna keep ringing that @roomy.chat bell

@roomy.chat now has editing! ✏️ 🎉 Thanks to @nandi.weird.one for the pull request and to @michaelschultz.com for reviewing and merging!

I think this would be incredibly useful! It might even let us avoid hosting a custom keyserver in @roomy.chat.

working on multiplayer editing of small flying islands with leaf/roomy-sdk and threlte

Success! 💪🏼 Got my first pull request lined up for @roomy.chat. If anyone else is on mobile, we're making the landing/home pages much nicer for you. #buildinpublic See the changes on Github github.com/muni-town/ro....

Wow, so many new friends! Welcome, we’re Germ and we’re here to help you make safer connections. Wanna know where we got our name? Check out our blog post:

welcome to the atproto.garden! 🐛 it's a community space for creators of all types to organize around making financially sustainable projects on the AT Protocol... talk shop about branding, business, economic models, etc. it's not just for devs!! hosted on @roomy.chat (a new atproto app!)

STREAMING NOW coding everything atproto today roomy.chat, myb.zeu.dev, and potatonet?! twitch.tv/zeu_dev

The second @roomy.chat alpha is live! Here's a full announcement post going over what's new and the things that have improved under-the-hood: blog.muni.town/roomy-chat-a...

@roomy.chat now has minimal wiki pages thanks to help from @ kimlimjustin.com! Now you can have conversations in chat and trivially go and save those important thoughts for later, and for future members, in a wiki doc without losing context!

whtwnd.com/atlearning.p... sharing the creation story and how the new-at-dev feed works and we got a chat room roomy.chat/-/atlearning... thanks to @roomy.chat

The @roomy.chat alpha demo is back online! 🎉 You can make your own public chat spaces and login with your ATProto account! Come join Roomy's own chat space and say hi! roomy.chat/-/roomy.chat

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol techcrunch.com/2025/...

@zicklag.dev is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: open data & schema systems: leaf ( entity-component ), lexicon, and rdf “federation” through local-first tech & data synchronization Join us this week Tue and Wed, April 1-2, online? More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

my talk Message Gardening in the ATmosphere is now available to watch! so excited about the future possibilities with @roomy.chat so please lmk what you think and how we can move forward to creating the best communities in the atmosphere 💙

While Discord's current ads approach is less intrusive than those used by many other social networks, an IPO could lead to shareholders demanding more from the company in pursuit of revenue.

I'll be attending @fediforum.org next week! I want to talk about: - open data & schema systems: leaf ( entity-component ), lexicon, and rdf - “federation” through local-first tech & data synchronization 🗓️ April 1-2,2025 📍Online

Zeu Capua @zeu.dev presents Message Gardening in the ATmosphere, telling us about Roomy Chat @roomy.chat #ATmosphereConf

i made a @roomy.chat room

@roomy.chat aims to become an open-source group chat application, similar to Discord or Slack. ⌨️ In active development 🌐 Federated blog.muni.town/roomy-chat-a...