Roomy is a group messaging app that gives online communities tools for autonomous collaboration — designable spaces not just for chat, but for cultivating a web of shared understanding together. We show how cheap, user-controlled, interoperable data on ATProto can enable online communities to channel impassioned mobilizing into sustained organizing in the shadow of Big Tech's empire.
Live Call: Communities & Permissioned Data for Roomy.space
Roomy Deep Dive: ATProto + Automerge
A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat.
Atmosphere Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
Owning group data - meri's missives
Thinking about how communities can manage shared data on and off ATProto
ATProtocol Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
ATProtocol Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
WG Community Standards
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism
There has been some good writing by Mosh, Erlend, and Meri about this topic worth pulling in. Permissioned spaces coming to atproto will also unlock a lot of important affordances for crafting protected spaces for organizers. For example, permissioned spaces on semble would turn into community-run search engines. My hope is that atproto is the missing infrastructural piece that enables us to really shape digital spaces around the specific needs organizers and their communities rather the...
Roomy and community organizing for system change - ATmosphereConf 2026