Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh@meri.garden carried this release on her back, and is presently driving the Roomy product. Every $ of revenue buys more development time for meri to continue her work at a steady cadence.
Roomy@roomy.spaceHelp fund our lil indie operation!
Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere.
should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?
Roomy ProErlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh alternatives will of course come up, and some will become very popular; none of them will have noticeable impact on Omarchy’s popularity.
This isn’t a battle that can be won by tech-ing harder. The tech industry is overwhelmingly owned by autocrats. No amount of alt-tech can take their power away.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh “the left needs its own Joe Rogan“
won’t happen because agent-maxxing in a lawless environment favors the ruthless (as does capital). a more serious competitor will by definition move more slowly and methodically, and that’s not the kind of ride the Omarchy crowd is lining up for.
John David Pressman@jdp.extropian.netFWIW the reason Omarchy is getting so much support is that it's legibly taking on the project of agent-maxxing to unfuck Linux, if you wanted to starve it of resources your best bet is probably to start a competing project that is legibly more serious.Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh Regulators have an innate understanding of bigness and scale. Some AI regulation in the USA already stipulates special restrictions for AI operations that exceed a certain compute threshold. Regulating by data mass is a far more tangible metric to enforce by than intangibles like “safety“.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh Much like a wealth tax on data, this aligns neatly with the EFF’s recommendation of a Privacy First approach to addressing online harms.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh yes-and, pacify the profit-maximization incentive
Big Data AI is by definition a product of our global data commons, and as such any product derived from it should only be allowed for non-extractive, regenerative purposes.
Commercial applicability should shrink relative to the size of data troves.
Big AI CommonsI never seize to be amazed by how accepting we are of the exact same multinational corporations who under no uncertain terms spent the la...blog.erlend.sh
Jake Gold@jacob.goldThere's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture.
But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly.
It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh brilliant! this would go very well with a public leaderboard for substacks-in-transition.
We should have our favorite bloggers amicably compete for the fastest transitions away from the nazi-platformer to the open web.
I nominate @rushkoff.com & @tgspodcast.bsky.social for the leaderboard
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Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh Two weeks prior to the big event there will be a hackathon hosted by @kjetil.kjernsmo.net and a handful of other facilitators we can get our hands on; do make a sound if you’re in Oslo and know your way around atproto or want to learn more about it.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh @kjetil.kjernsmo.net and @tom-fredrik.no will be there. Surely @erik.eurosky.social as well? Feel free to help me fill in others to mention here. datakollektivet.no doesn’t have an account yet but they’ll also be there, doing a talk together with me about software stewardship and the atmosphere.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh even though you probably can’t come join us in person (sure would love to have you though!), we norwegian folk would greatly appreciate it if you would register your interest nonetheless, to signal to the uninitiated among the Norwegians that the atmosphere is alive and eager to meet them.
Big Tech må vekk 2026 – Attac NorgeNO: Vi gjentar suksessen fra i fjor. Mer info kommer snart.
EN: We’re repeating last year’s success. More info coming.
2025: https://attac.no/2025/10/30/stappfullt-mot-big-tech/
https://attac.no/202...atmo.rsvpErlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh builds on the vision of Atmospheric Stacks by @schlage.town
On Atmospheric Stacks…Or, how we can supplant Substack and take back the stack, together as an ecosystem!scraps.schlage.townErlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh A common failure mode for indies is a go-it-alone attitude..
..so I'd like to celebrate a quiet partnership that's been forming between @flo-bit.dev and @tompscanlan.bsky.social to develop @atmo.rsvp as a joint effort. Great example of the atmosphere as force for convergence.
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