Notices by Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)

In the vernacular of @pluralistic: 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.

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

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

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/

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

✋ 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

“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 @pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861019696086103

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

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 ✊❤️🔥

@silverpill 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

We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by @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

The instance type we’d like to host is most likely gonna be @mitra #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.

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

@cwebber @zicklag 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..

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

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

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

‘Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life’ by @ntnsndr also comes to mind.

https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/

(Any Erin+Nathan collab in the works? We desperately need More Governance)

@bnewbold.net @bnewbold you’re looking for @arcanicanis

@ntnsndr 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