Mezzanine is a system for making rooms in an open network. You tag a post with an opaque identifier — a random string that points without signifying — and th…
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags - Nightflight
Roomy joins Modal incubator - Roomy
Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.
PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
A deeper look at PACT: a new initiative to tackle the rising tide of CAPTCHAs on the web whilst keeping the web open and preserving user's privacy.
Roomy & Designing for Communities | Fish | Offprint
My personal experiences working with the team at Roomy, and how I feel after the last 5 months helping with the project.
Decrypting Matrix – Where Do Rooms Go?
Matrix has been running private rooms on open protocols for a decade, and they ended up inside European governments. This piece is about why happened, and why it does not have to be the result of the various projects for private data and rooms on the open social web too.
What is a Group Host? - at:// pizza thoughts
Describes an hosting pattern for Atmospheric Group accounts, including group creation and app authorization flows
Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses
An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
Ambient Co-presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Online Trust and Safety Hub: Stay Safe Online | Internet Society
Learn how to stay safe online, protect your privacy, spot scams, identify false information, and build safer digital habits.
Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer
With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.
Skydit — communities, on your own terms
Reddit-style communities on the AT Protocol. Your posts live in your own Bluesky account.
Habitat & permission spaces for organizations - building [at] habitat
Our plans for organizational permissions on spaces