Erlend Sogge Heggen

Bullish on kindness.  
Founder of Spicy Lobster studios and Weird.
https://weird.one

Formerly VP of Community / Product Lead at Discourse.

#opensource #gamedev #fediverse

Home: https://erlend.sh
GitHub: https://github.com/erlend-sh
Open Source Explained: https://blog.erlend.sh/open-source-explained
Web of the People: https://blog.erlend.sh/web-of-the-people

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2026-01-31 19:38:13 UTC

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what’s the best place to track your work with DIDs in the fediverse?
In the atproto world there’s an emerging extension of PLC that has a lot of promise as a far more decentralized identity ledger: https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/didplcbft-a-decentralized-approach-to-did-plc/571?u=erlend.sh

2025-12-07 17:10:17 UTC

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backing!
Very happy to hear compatibility with the threadiverse is a goal. On that note, I hope you’ll consider pioneering the ability for groups to follow other groups:
https://blog.erlend.sh/group-convergence

2025-12-02 21:00:42 UTC

Roughly this time tomorrow I’ll be chatting with the folks at Sensemaking Scenius about all things Open Source, something I’ve dedicated >20 years of my life to and have *opinions* about.
I reckon it’s high time we made OSS an innately anti-fascist movement that doesn’t pander to oligarchs and autocrats. Let’s talk about it!
https://luma.com/z9ivf64k
#opensource #antifa #democracy

2025-11-17 20:51:27 UTC

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hope you’ll get something published! Judging by the unexpectedly positive reception of this article, I think the open software crowd is ready to talk more critically about our movement (or the absence of it) now, so it can mature into something more holistically pro-social.

2025-11-14 20:28:46 UTC

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yeh, Open Source Purity, let me introduce you to The Dark Triad.
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/dark-triad-personality-traits-how

2025-11-14 18:18:40 UTC

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Shoutout to fellow traveler and void-yeller [@zkat](https://toot.cat/@zkat )
https://toot.cat/@zkat/115129958258018665

2025-11-14 18:12:55 UTC

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.
But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
#OpenSource #foss #licensing

2025-10-18 06:36:00 UTC

Er du i Oslo? Bli med på gratis festival idag så treffes vi der!
Våre panelister skal mimre om det gode gamle internett, se på hva som gikk galt og snakke om løsninger som åpne protokoller, datakooperativer, nye selskapsformer, og kunst 💖
https://attac.no/arrangement/big-tech-ma-vekk/
#Oslo #Norge #fediverse #indieweb #socialweb

2025-10-08 14:20:53 UTC

https://hollo.social/@fedify/0199a579-adb3-7bf5-a8ea-970c8fa91f09
Hope this leads to an even larger shared-layer between all the js/node #activitypub implementations like Ghost, NodeBB, *keys et.al.
Particularly wishing for convergence around a shared *identity core* across all these AP apps in accordance with NomadPub by @npub19yg…wysk
https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/nomadpub.md
FEP-ef61: Portable Objects
FEP-ae97: Client-side activity signing
That in addition to a common OAuth foundation would effectively be ActivityPub 2.0 and on-par with atproto.

2025-10-05 09:12:14 UTC

The web can be made personal again.
https://blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
#fediverse #indieweb #agency

2025-10-05 07:13:48 UTC

While the newest bsky drama is playing itself out, here’s a great opportunity for us to lay an old one to rest:
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/17
@npub1c80…5lwq has opened the door to cross-pollination between the AT and AP protocols. [@thisismissem](https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem ) already jumped in with an open and collaborative spirit.
We can bury this old 🥩 and *get on with it*. Clean separation between user data and app platform is a powerful concept and #activitypub will be so much better for it.

2025-09-04 23:12:12 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs & co is there any web service or specifically a community platform whose Terms of Service you consider to be quite exemplary?
We’re drafting the ToS for our (open source and protocol-based) community web app and I’m wondering if there’s some good prior art out there to draw from.
The Discourse.org ToS was pretty good when I still worked there years ago so that’ll be one of our baselines. Same guy who co-drafted that also made this: https://github.com/kemitchell/plain-website-terms-of-service/blob/master/terms.md

2025-08-18 19:05:55 UTC

I have colleagues and fellow travelers who use AI tech that I find deeply objectionable, yet it feels wrong to expect them to forgo its usage entirely, especially if the technology can be turned against its own rotten foundations.
https://blog.erlend.sh/non-consensual-technology

2025-06-16 13:58:49 UTC

@npub1ufx…u2t8 are you going to the IGF?
https://www.igf2025.no
I’m signed up for it but don’t know what days I’ll be attending yet. Several fine people from @npub1utn…kyjw (the most active critic of big-tech and proponent of democratic tech in Norway) are gonna be there.
Anyone in particular we ought to sync up with?

2025-06-08 06:44:33 UTC

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yeah I read parts of it, great book. It’s always a bit painful to read books from several decades ago that lay out The Problem so clearly, because we clearly didn’t win that ideological battle.
My favorite takeaway from Schumacher’s work that I link to all the time is the notion of Appropriate Technology, aka Village-level technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

2025-06-07 13:51:28 UTC

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Lastly, as a great intro to the brokenness of the growth paradigm and what necessarily comes after it, I loved this podcast episode (full transcript included) about Regenerative Economics.
https://accidentalgods.life/this-is-how-we-build-the-future-teaching-regenerative-economics-at-all-levels-with-jennifer-brandsberg-engelmann/

2025-06-07 13:51:09 UTC

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Steward Ownership in article form: https://medium.com/@purpose_network/want-purpose-driven-businesses-rethink-ownership-3684b9bc3ae4

2025-06-07 13:50:53 UTC

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For an engaging intro to steward-ownership:
https://www.ted.com/talks/armin_steuernagel_transforming_ownership_to_create_a_better_economy/transcript

2025-06-07 13:50:26 UTC

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".
https://blog.muni.town/company-as-commons/
This is how Weird inc. / Roomy corp. (same thing, different brands) will work as a company; pro-social by design.
#stewardownership #coop #commons

2025-05-22 19:06:39 UTC

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Like, whatever, we can make an NFT of it for you as well if you’d like one, sure!
But it's not going to “appreciate in value”, that’s gross, and totally missing the point. It's just a public record of an art purchase.

2025-05-22 19:01:10 UTC

I think it should be socially acceptable for artists to cold-call anyone they see using AI-art and ask them:
Hey bud! Would you like to commission a $50-$500 drawing of higher quality, made by a human artist you can credit by name as our mutual proof of you being a bond fide Supporter of The Arts?
This is the sort of digital receipt that you should want to wear as a badge on your most punk-looking jacket with pride: I PAID FOR ART.
#art #commons

2025-02-22 12:08:58 UTC

For a lot of us the “simple” prospect of filling in a web page with content presents an insurmountable writer’s block.
For all their flaws, this is in large part why the mainstream social media applications have been so successful:
All it asks for is a blurb, and now we can be WRITERS together 💌
https://blog.muni.town/content-imperative/

2025-02-21 07:17:54 UTC

Our digital gardens work even better in multi-player mode.
https://blog.muni.town/chatty-community-gardens/

2025-02-15 09:52:04 UTC

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hva med en søndagskaffe imorgen?

2025-02-12 15:36:06 UTC

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very good point Caleb, the nuance is much appreciated!

2025-02-11 21:55:07 UTC

In the vernacular of @npub1fdr…lvhs: Google Maps changing ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’ is geopolitical twiddling.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/
> If you’re an analog grocer changing the prices of eggs, you have to send minimum-wage teenagers racing around the store with pricing guns to sticker over the old prices.
>
> If you’re Amazonfresh, you just twiddle a dial on a digital control panel and all the prices are changed instantaneously.
Big Tech is now twiddling with international borders.

2025-02-11 09:20:39 UTC

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have you been in contact with Roost yet?
https://roost.tools
An IFTAS + Roost partnership seems plausible. They’re also gonna be running a CSAM tool:
https://www.platformer.news/roost-open-source-trust-safety/
..so maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to leave that massive infrastructure cost to a better funded institution (they got that AI-bubble money) so IFTAS can focus on advocacy and essentially operate as an amicable watchdog to keep the likes of Roost honest and informed?

2025-02-04 10:56:56 UTC

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👋
Mer om mitt arbeid her: https://blog.muni.town/muni-town/

2025-02-03 11:38:02 UTC

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yaaay, tyvm! My favorite Internet List 🥰

2025-01-31 12:31:10 UTC

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I reckon being in a state of panic results in cognitive decline.
Several people I’ve had enjoyable and thoughtful interactions with before are now behaving very manically, very on-edge and aggressive.

2025-01-30 10:23:12 UTC

At what point can we agree that having an active presence on X/Twitter is a red flag for an #OSS project?
That place is not just a nazi bar now, it’s their official headquarters with a 24/7 live podium for their supreme leader. gtfo
https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/113915933903762993

2025-01-28 22:57:24 UTC

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Down the line this has major implications. Among other things, it sets the stage for personal websites that can accept pull requests.
Wouldn't it be great to enlist your trusted readership as a collaborative community-editor?

2025-01-28 22:57:02 UTC

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Weird aspires to be a digital garden for personal web spaces. That means facilitating small beginnings that can mature over time. A key aspect of this is version-controlled documents.
Using the excellent Loro CRDT, we've got a functional demo of 'Git for writing' working.
https://loro.dev/
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/908/447/443/917/838/original/f93bffd086c15298.mp4

2025-01-28 22:55:22 UTC

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This however is just the beginning of a an intricate scheme.
The end-game is fully moddable websites, like WordPress but more safely sandboxed.
https://github.com/muni-town/weird/discussions/291

2025-01-28 22:54:53 UTC

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With our first pass of theming completed, Weird.one is officially a MySpace competitor. (just kidding, sort of)
We partnered with the wonderful https://hazy.sh to demonstrate the capabilities of Themes v1, based on Jinja 2 templates.
All of her themes are available for free: https://git.gay/h/weirdone-themes
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/908/439/651/669/461/original/3ab3cf5564c3a465.png
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/908/439/648/069/846/original/6010e32aa6d660c6.png
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/908/439/660/028/392/original/4f476ffc4c593b14.png

2025-01-28 22:53:19 UTC

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! 😍
Weird v0.4 is now out! Introducing Themes & Revisions.
https://blog.muni.town/themes-and-revisions/
more below 👇
#weirdone #indieweb #socialweb

2025-01-26 15:54:49 UTC

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this is horrifying.

2025-01-25 22:51:07 UTC

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kult! Jeg skal ikke på FOSDEM dessverre, men vi får prøve oss på dem kaffekoppen i Oslo em dag smart da ☺️

2025-01-25 10:48:44 UTC

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The nascent company in question:
https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113600296697982699

2025-01-25 10:45:46 UTC

✋ hei!
I’d love to get in touch with a lawyer or corporation-savvy person in Oslo/Norway who is interested in things like open source, coops and steward ownership.
Don’t need to be an expert in any of this, just need to be interested in exploring this space together with me in the Norwegian jurisdiction.
https://purpose-economy.org/en/
We’re big on ‘the common good’ here in Norway, but we haven’t done much to enshrine it in law. Someone has to make the first move.
#opensource #legal #finance #oslo

2025-01-25 08:19:53 UTC

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and speaking of enshittification-resistant company structures, I highly recommend reading about Steward Ownership:
https://purpose-economy.org/en/
https://www.purpose-us.com

2025-01-25 08:10:57 UTC

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small correction:
> Bluesky is a B-corp
B-corp is a certification. Bluesky doesn’t have that. What they are is a Public Benefit Corporation, aka a PBC.

2025-01-22 13:43:38 UTC

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finally got around to reading it in full, very nice! Can confirm it’s very legible even to a non-academic ☺️

2025-01-20 20:11:42 UTC

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can’t have your planet-sized cake and eat it too 😢

2025-01-20 18:25:54 UTC

“These are the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints. If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (..) then you have the means, motive and opportunity to turn your service into a giant pile of shit.”
“To stop enshittification, it is not necessary to eliminate the profit motive – it is only necessary to make enshittification unprofitable.”
by @npub1fdr…lvhs https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861019696086103

2025-01-20 08:07:31 UTC

Is there a common practice for how to automatically detect the social icon of a fediverse site-link when adding it to a ‘personal links’ section like in GitHub? We’re trying to implement this for #weirdone
https://github.com/muni-town/weird/issues/294
#fediverse #activitypub #webdev

2025-01-18 13:49:52 UTC

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hmm no, what docs did you derive ipfs from? Oh, the fact that I did a talk at the ipfs conf I guess.
Weird was never based on ipfs, but it has been prototyped using a close cousin, Iroh:
https://blog.muni.town/weird-happenings/
That’s what led us to Willow, which is now a core part of our architecture, whereas Iroh is being relegated to a more optional net-protocol for p2p connectivity.
https://blog.muni.town/leaf-atproto-activitypub/

2025-01-18 08:16:50 UTC

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as hard as it is, I really do think it’s happening, and I think this will be a momentous year for the user-friendly #dweb .
The breakout success of a *somewhat* decentralized atproto has set a new bar of pragmatism for lots of decentralization nerds who better understand the ‘terms of adoption’ now.

2025-01-18 08:06:12 UTC

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I had a mixed impression of the term. Before any context I thought ‘uh-oh, do we have a case of web5 type branding here?, but as soon as I read that it stands for peer *for* peer it made complete sense and I like it, heh.

2025-01-18 08:03:31 UTC

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sounds marvelous. I’m gonna try to make my way through it (we’re using Willow in #weirdone after all) but 90 pages of academic text is admittedly a bit intimidating to me, although what I skimmed so far was quite legible to me 😌
Just to check, I don’t suppose there’s like a ~10 page version of this in the works for laypeople?

2025-01-15 08:41:30 UTC

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Oooh I didn’t know p2panda had started using @npub1pez…6yrq, that’s great! Ecosystem convergence ftw 💞

2025-01-11 10:54:25 UTC

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appreciate it nonetheless! 🙏
We’ve had another request for this. It essentially comes down to our payment provider Polar supporting other options, e.g. cryptocurrencies. We can’t just add it as an option ourselves since we rely on Polar as our Merchant of Record to simplify tax management.

2025-01-10 17:36:55 UTC

First step towards fediverse compatibility in #WeirdOne is complete!
All Weird sites (which can have custom domains like my erlend.sh) now automatically verify against Mastodon & co. ✅
https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113794326443596401
#fediverse #indieweb #socialweb
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/805/270/166/503/225/original/2019ce9639ca580d.jpeg

2025-01-08 19:13:43 UTC

HOLY MOLY – Weird is now publicly available to all!
Our v0.3 mvp is finally done after a year of development and many more spent pondering cozy community design.
https://blog.muni.town/selling-dreams/
Today it's a minimalistic personal site generator. Before long it'll be a social network made of people's personal websites.
Nerdy web weirdos unite ✊❤️‍🔥

2024-12-30 14:28:22 UTC

Honestly we might get a lot more good in the world if nlnet pivoted to ‘paid sabbaticals for open source maintainers to take a mental health month, no development work’...
I mean that half-seriously.

2024-12-23 12:08:23 UTC

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afaik there’s no good amalgamation three you mentioned already, but another common tool for large scale sense-making is https://pol.is/home

2024-12-21 02:44:51 UTC

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does Mitra support OIDC logins?
In order to facilitate seamless login into a Mitra instance via Weird-app, Mitra needs to support logins via Rauthy (OIDC backend of Weird): https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy

2024-12-15 20:47:51 UTC

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The instance type we’d like to host is most likely gonna be @npub1rne…g4qz #mitra
..specifically because it supports nomadic identity, so neither our instance nor our users are locked in stasis; Weird net can migrate to a different AP instance in the future if necessary, and instance tenants can migrate to any other instance that supports Nomadic Identity (FEP-ae97), e.g. with:
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/fep-ae97-client
It’s pretty easy to self-host; the real challenge is instance governance and moderation.

2024-12-15 20:40:23 UTC

We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by [@prami](https://social.lol/@prami )
This instance will be operated as a paid extension of Weird, costing $10/yr ($20/yr after beta).
All member subscriptions will go entirely to the AP instance hosters, which should be a team of at least 2-3 sysadmins & moderators tending to the instance part-time. This is expected to be a fairly low-volume instance since all members are paid (to begin with).
#moderation

2024-12-05 13:45:57 UTC

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will do 👌

2024-12-05 12:49:24 UTC

What kind of company does Weird aspire to be?
https://blog.muni.town/weird-inc/
Must we consider ourselves a ‘possible future adversary’ of the open product and ecosystem we’re caringly shaping and seeding as founders?
Abiding by non-extractive practices means doing business on hard mode, but it’s a fun puzzle.
We believe the most realistic and sustainable way of realizing that outcome is with old-fashioned commerce:
1. Make product
2. Sell product
3. Return to step 1
#WeirdOne #indieweb #postgrowth

2024-12-04 12:53:45 UTC

Here’s our roadmap for Weird going into 2025!
https://blog.muni.town/weird-2025/
We already have a proof-of-concept importer for Mastodon as a backup of your posts & connections.
#weirdweb #indieweb

2024-11-29 14:16:05 UTC

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forking the official app is tricky because it’s such a fast-moving target that is unlikely to wanna merge such an addition down the road.
There are however efforts like this being discussed for unofficial clients: https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/discussions/3030
Gobo exists as a live open source example as well.
Unfortunately the middle of the venm diagram ‘atproto enthusiast/user’ and ‘ap enthusiast/user’ appears to be so small that no one has decided to pursue this yet.

2024-11-27 13:03:53 UTC

https://blog.erlend.sh/prosocial-discourse
‘An ActivityPub gal and an ATProto guy enters a bar.., and they get along great, no joke.’
This is what good-faith co-creation of the Social Web looks like.
The standard for mature conversation has been set. Let this be the beginning of the end for reactionary protocol tribalism. (I’m so sick of it, make it stop make it stop make it stop.)
#fediverse #atproto #socialweb

2024-11-25 23:46:56 UTC

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lol, much appreciated! 🫶
To be clear we had no expectations of direct engagement, we just found your framing/prompts to be a fitting contextual basis from which to explain our own work.
That work does seem to align quite neatly with OCapN et.al., the docs of which we will certainly revisit more attentively in the coming weeks.
zick’s been pondering a nifty WASM-based plugins system as well..

2024-11-24 10:09:44 UTC

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cybermylowerbackhurts

2024-11-24 09:27:10 UTC

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certainly!
Zick is currently in the process of drafting a blog post in response to Christine’s ‘Correct Fediverse’ outline in the context of Leaf.
You’re in a great position to do the same for NextGraph, with the added bonus of being innately AP compatible!
Nomadic Identity is complicated and many separate ventures are saying ‘we do this’. Such statements need to be accompanied with explanations of the flows and trade offs involved, as that makes all the difference.

2024-11-23 09:23:56 UTC

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> Decentralized identity on top of ~mutable CAS storage
Is there anything like a spec stub for that somewhere? I think we stand a good chance of checking all these boxes in #leafprotocol by @npub1z53…evsh
https://mastodon.social/@zicklag/113528550574786820

2024-11-19 20:46:39 UTC

Homeownership on the web is highly analogous to the physical world. Modern homeownership is mostly a story of home-rentership, not real ownership.
Incredibly, this matches the online experience, even though the World Wide Web has an infinite amount of real-estate!
You deserve a home on the web that’s built to keep you safe; a magical place for virtual living that‘s yours for life, existing in a sociable web.
https://blog.muni.town/digital-homeownership/
(Now stealth-releasing Weird v0.2 🥷)
#socialweb #weirdweb

2024-11-18 00:24:13 UTC

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speaking of DID methods, I ran into another promising one recently: https://fedid.me/about/

2024-11-15 10:55:22 UTC

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2024/11/14/OSI-AI
> The Open Source Initiative’s recently announced “Open Source AI Definition” surprised me in a way I expect many readers could miss: they’re defining “open” not just in terms of what bits we can get and what we’re allowed to do with them, but also partly in terms of OSI’s own institutional blessing.
> It isn’t just a definition of what “open source AI” is or ought to be, but implicitly also a process for bestowing that [OSI] status or withholding it.
#opensource #ai

2024-11-14 22:19:38 UTC

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brilliant!

2024-11-12 10:16:53 UTC

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yeah that’s pretty much my whole point: Bitcoin and its ilk is only “easy” insofar as we ignore its externalities, just like it’s easier to burn fossil fuels than to invent better forms of energy capture.

2024-11-11 19:42:02 UTC

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surely proof-of-stake/storage and similar such solutions can check all of those requirement boxes without the waste of PoW?

2024-11-10 13:45:59 UTC

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love what you’re doing etc.etc. but on an extremely trivial note:
the puzzle-piece thumbnail that appears in these posts? It seems pretty clear that the top-right piece actually isn’t gonna fit, because the piece below it (weirdly) lacks a top-side protrusion/attachment-point 🤣
(Instead of updating the graphic though you could alternatively say that piece represents a maligned actor that’s about to be exposed as such thanks to the IFTAS framework.)
My Sunday is going great thank you.

2024-11-10 13:32:29 UTC

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This is the Batman’s Joker way of making a new currency:
Burn a bunch of legacy money to make room for your own currency.
In the Joker’s case the new currency was fear and chaos. For bitcoiners it’s money and power.

2024-11-10 13:27:40 UTC

I hear #bitcoin has been surging lately?
I’m not blanket anti-blockchain and crypto currencies (though I’ve yet to benefit from it any way), but the proof-of-work believers continue to perplex me.
You’re saying that in the year 2024, half a decade into the Information Age, we should all agree that this token of yours not only stores but *appreciates* (increases) in value over time, because you did us all the great favor of crunching some loopy math and burned a lot of energy in the process?

2024-11-09 00:29:26 UTC

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tbh a punch line like ‘surveillance advertising’ would’ve been funnier and more accurate to the VC enshittification playbook.
There are plenty of beloved subscription products and making money in such a straightforward manner shouldn’t be vilified.

2024-11-04 21:54:37 UTC

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that’s kinda what Willow does: https://willowprotocol.org/more/timestamps-really/index.html

2024-11-04 09:48:48 UTC

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isn’t this missing a crucial detail?
The whole reason why those 100k users can be switched across service providers so easily is because all of their ID keys (did:plc) are stored on the singular Bluesky-operated https://plc.directory
That key-ownership does not change with the move, so complete Bluesky-independence has not happened yet in this case. Those users are still dependent on an essential piece of Bluesky-infrastructure.

2024-11-03 14:37:33 UTC

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‘Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life’ by @npub1csp…k7h4 also comes to mind.
https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/
(Any Erin+Nathan collab in the works? We desperately need More Governance)

2024-11-03 13:49:49 UTC

Wholeahearted-agree, and @npub1sac…kcpe is well on her way to back such statements up with both science and better practice 💫 https://sfba.social/@neuralgraffiti/113393059427973956

2024-10-31 17:48:58 UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291
Self-interested hyperbole aside, I think that’s a laughably low number for what is now effectively an ‘AI Company’. I’m sure >95% of Google employees use Google (well, at least until recent years).
If this stuff really works as well as these companies claim it does, wouldn’t their entire workforce excitedly be using these tools already?
cc @npub1fdr…lvhs @npub1hr7…jxyc [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith )
#ai #GenAI #aibubble

2024-10-30 21:14:52 UTC

It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub
advocates don’t believe a pluriverse of social web protocols is possible;
that’s literally all the web has ever been. Additive, composable stacks.
It was never that *one* protocol. It’s the mixing and matching of multiple protocols - like http+html ad infinitum - that makes the World Wide Web so resilient.
Plurality is the web’s superpower; the more you fight it the more the pluralists will route around you instead of with and through you.

2024-10-30 16:28:14 UTC

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1. Industry/ecosystem adoption (Facebook, Discord..)
2. I’m still experiencing a lot of the lost-message issues due to encryption, and I feel like a move to MLS might be what’s needed to solve that once and for all.

2024-10-29 17:48:08 UTC

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congratulations!
> what might Matrix 3.0 bring? (…) Could it be switching to #MLS (or Decentralised MLS) for encryption?
That would help absolutely amazing.

2024-10-29 15:43:56 UTC

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this type of add-on for #mastodon is frankly all I ever wanted in a fedi-comments integration. I already have an account on here and I’d like to keep using it to solicit commentary the same way I have been for years already.
cc @npub1d2v…0l89
https://cdn.masto.host/writing/media_attachments/files/113/391/477/201/775/842/original/2d58109f70e9a691.jpeg

2024-10-27 19:33:46 UTC

Won’t you be our nomadic neighbor?👋
https://blog.muni.town/muni-town
Upcoming Posts:
* Digital Homeownership (and Weird v0.2)
* Weird Inc.
* Everlasting Tools
* Non-commercial licensing strategy
* Features Roadmap
* Weird MVP Release (v0.3)
#weirdweb #governance

2024-10-26 21:16:44 UTC

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Curious what thoughts you have on this @npub1z53…evsh
There’s something quite ‘web of data’ about Hixie’s idea, but you’ve arguably come up with something far more backwards web-compatible in #leafprotocol

2024-10-26 13:39:29 UTC

@npub17fx…dj24 @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1csp…k7h4 (dunno if any of you are podcast ppl but..) I think you’ll all like this one:
https://pca.st/episode/2fe0ae65-6e11-4d75-889c-a17880437011
“Most of what we think of as technological problems are really institutional problems”

2024-10-26 11:02:44 UTC

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thanks! I’ve been trying to get to recover this link for so long, haha.
It’s a novel concept well worth considering as an experimental path. Would be cool to see someone make a browser specifically made to explore this.

2024-10-24 19:20:28 UTC

Do what the AI cannot:
prompt yourself and whoever wants to listen to Do Your Best Work today and every other day.
#motivation

2024-10-23 15:54:50 UTC

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this is excellent and deserves a ‘Are atproto’s PLCs centralized?’ blog post ;)

2024-10-19 21:21:22 UTC

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yeeees! 🥳

2024-10-19 20:11:23 UTC

@npub1csp…k7h4 you connected with this work yet?
https://www.cip.org/blog/four-tools-that-cip-is-working-on
> We’re experimenting with taking [Collective Constitutional AI] process and making it possible for any group of people to come together, construct a constitution, and fine-tune an open-source model based on this constitution. This brings together our Roadmap priorities around advancing collective fine-tuning, building for open-source approaches to model governance..
https://www.cip.org/research/ai-roadmap
#opengov #opensource #genai

2024-10-19 14:19:13 UTC

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I hope you can find a way to collaborate with these people: https://subvert.fm/blog/a-collectively-owned-bandcamp-successor/
Both of your projects look awesome, and would work even better together!

2024-10-18 09:11:01 UTC

@npub1zht…alfy would you happen to know of any (preferably Node.js) libraries that abstract over multiple DNS providers and provide one API for setting DNS records regardless of which provider you're using?
@npub1z53…evsh has been asking around about this but no luck yet.

2024-10-13 19:50:22 UTC

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# of Personal Websites currently available on the web is an interesting metric to measure for the #indieweb movement as well.

2024-10-13 19:42:56 UTC

@npub1zq5…dlp2 got any good estimates of he many *personal websites* exist on the web today?
I.e. websites that exist to represent an individual person.

2024-10-12 21:59:58 UTC

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I made the same suggestion two years ago, so we could resume conversation here:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/clarify-relation-of-socialhub-versus-fep-repository/2909?u=erlend_sh