Erlend Sogge HeggenJan 28, 2025

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

Weird v0.4 - Themes & Revisions

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! 😍 Nerd-tier Weird will still be available for just $25/yr (half price) during the next several months of our beta period. One year of service guaranteed Seeing

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Erlend Sogge HeggenJan 20, 2025

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

Support Mastodon Social Link Detection · Issue #294 · muni-town/weird

Right now we don't properly show a mastodon icon for social links to mastodon. The issue is that you may have any number of different mastodon servers so we can't match on domain like we do for the...

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Show threadzelfJan 18, 2025

@erlend oh yes! Thank you for reminding me, was planning on making a zine out of it. I'll get on that too.

Great to hear you're using Willow! Their approach to protocol design inspired a lot of the conclusions in the thesis as well ~

Checked out #weirdone last night, will try it out for sure!

Edit: ps, I skimmed the documentation and got the impression you were running over ipfs, did you switch or running a merge somehow? *research curiosity intensifies*

Show threadErlend Sogge HeggenJan 18, 2025

@zelf 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?

Erlend Sogge HeggenJan 10, 2025

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

Erlend Sogge Heggen (@[email protected])

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 ✊❤️‍🔥

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Erlend Sogge HeggenJan 8, 2025

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 ✊❤️‍🔥

#indieweb #weirdone

Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!

Make a $10 bet on where Weird will be in a year from now, and we will do our very best not to disappoint. Every paying customer is also an automatic stakeholder in the Weird indie enterprise.

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Erlend Sogge HeggenDec 15, 2024

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

Erlend Sogge HeggenDec 5, 2024

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

Weird inc.

Mindfully growing a non-extractive company towards a 'steward ownership' end state.

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Erlend Sogge HeggenDec 4, 2024

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.

#weirdone #indieweb

Erlend Sogge HeggenNov 19, 2024

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 #weirdone