Bluesky-connected
Roomy is optionally connected with the Bluesky network of 30M people.
make space. cultivate knowledge
Roomy is a freeform communications playground for messages both big and small, fast and slow; in these roomy spaces we move together at the speed of understanding.
Village-scale community building..
..makes the web personal again.
Engage in digital community gardening;
Participate in an ecosystem of living ideas 🌱
Features
Gardenable group chat that grows with you
Every page, every thread, every post in Roomy is fundamentally a type of document. Any single chat message, discussion thread, or stand-alone page document can be transformed into the first draft of a Documentation Page, Digital Message Gardening
Communal resiliency
Build sovereign communities, designed to persist under the harshest conditions with novelties like Universally Shared Records: you will have a local copy of your community's data at all times, and so will all your community members! Local-first software realizes Appropriate Technology
Peer powered
Make communities that can, if necessary, endure purely on the shared resources of sufficiently aligned peers in a mutual-sharing network. Peer-2-Peer software
Public-first; privacy-friendly
Roomy is designed first and foremost for publicly shared, collaborative content exchange. Priority conversations are carefully supported, but private spaces are not the primary use case for the platform.
If you don't want your private group subjected to scrutiny, we will soon support self-hosting for full privacy.
cozy community software
Roomy is designed to be...
Safe
moderated; incremental
Accessible
discoverable; user-friendly
Casual
default asynchronous; at-your-leisure
Present
optionally synchronous; in-the-moment
Intimate
selectively private/public; closeness by consent
Further Reading
for the nerds