Erlend Sogge Heggen

@erlend

Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness. – about me @roomy.space – make space

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Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· 6d

Essential reading for all private data enjoyers, especially anyone building for communities. For true community sovereignty, “everything surrounding the community’s identity and function needs at least as much credible exit as an individual user does.” Builds on ‘the arbiter’ by @zicklag.dev

Community:
shared identity +
shared experiences +
shared values +
mutual concern

Architectural diagram of The Concierge: List Community Members Edition.

Architectural diagram of The Concierge: Add Community Member Edition.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· 8d

Calling all Norwegians! 🇳🇴 (heisann #Norge folk) Please use your amazing atmosphere-account to log into @sifa.id and enter your location so we can find each other on here 👋 I wanna connect with more locals who are atmosphere-curious.

A screenshot of sifa.id filtered to residents in Norway, totaling 3 people.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· 8d

@sifa.id could my location (city, region, country) be clickable? I wanna click on Norway to see the other norwegians in the atmosphere who've opted into publicly sharing their location. I tried asking @attie.ai rn but it blocked my request :( (now waiting for the americans to wake up)

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· 11d

This thread is actually quite heartening though? Hank wrote a very nuanced reflection and the subsequent comments are disproportionately amicable.

Highest rated response to Hank’s Reddit post:
> The thing I have always appreciated about you guys is your ability to imagine things complexly, even (maybe especially) when the nuanced take is not the popular one. There are not many people I see online these days whose opinions on AI fall anywhere but "AI is literally Satan and you are a bad person if you use it at all" and "AI is the future and I use it to tell me how to tie my shoes." I think you are 100% correct that AI is a tool. It has its uses, but it needs to be used with care and the understanding that it's still so new and we don't quite know the full effects of it.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· 29d

On iOS Safari, not seeing it.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jul 3

There’s already a profile switcher hiding in plain view: click your top left avatar and presto.

screenshot of Mu/Bluesky account switcher.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jul 1

Couple hours later and we’re enjoying the hug of death. Zick is away for an appointment and Meri is sleeping, meanwhile I haven’t the slightest clue what a FetchEvent oughta respondWith, so please bear with me as I do nothing to improve the situation.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jun 16

There’s a bug of some sort here @alexbenzer.com zick allows DMs and I’m already in a DM with him, but I get “can’t be messaged” both for direct messages as well as group chat invites. Same for a bunch of other people I’m mutual with and already in a DM with.

screenshot of Bluesky DM invites and people who “can’t be messaged”

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jun 1

No random passerby should be able to +1 increment your oss repo’s issue counter without triage. tangled.org/tangled.org/...

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· May 30

Welcome! p.s. @railway.com would get a ton more good will around here with a simple tweak to the blog template. Pretty good case to be made for catering to the atmosphere devs community as a growth market for dev tools.

screenshot of railway blog post saying "follow us on x"; no mention of bluesky as an alternative.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Apr 26

was on my way in, but the app seems to require a risky amount of access. atproto.com/specs/oauth#... marvins-guide.leaflet.pub/3mbfvey7sok26

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Mar 22

Yep, Zebras are what we need. The Unicorn isn’t real. unichicken.biz

Text in picture:

Unichicken

What the duck's a unichicken?!

Well, glad you asked. This cute and comical piece of artwork has a serious message.

Let's start with the chicken. Startups are like factory farmed chickens: we force feed them with investment capital so they can grow plump and juicy until the moment of liquidation, at which point the financial value is pulled out of them and we're left with a dysfunctional carcass of a company.

Then there's the unicorn. The whole idea with these startup chickens is that we're supposed to turn them into unicorns. In reality, however, 90% of unicorns are bleeding cash and never reach profitability. What's more, "unicorn" is actually a fancy way of saying "pension fund subsidised monopoly forming"—which has a number of detrimental effects on the economy. In the United States, ~65% of investment into Venture Capital funds comes from pension funds. So these cash-bleeding companies are spending the retirement money of taxpayers. Plus, it's very difficult for companies that rely on customer revenue to compete with (aspirant) "unicorns", which can endlessly bleed cash and still survive on the market. This deforms entire industries, causing them to evolve illogically and incorrectly. Unichicken questions both the hyper-growth model of startup incubation as well as our endless pursuit of unicorns.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Mar 13

8 months later, Digg has called for a time-out. «We underestimated the gravitational pull of existing platforms. Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall.» /surprised-pikachu.jpeg If only there was another way, like some kind of protocol that open social apps could build on together…

From Digg.com, part 2:

What’s next

We're not giving up. Digg isn't going away.

A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack. Positioning Digg as simply an alternative to incumbents wasn't imaginative enough. That's a race we were never going to win. What comes next needs to be genuinely different.

We're also announcing something we're excited about: Kevin Rose, Digg's founder who started the company back in 2004, is returning to join the team full-time. Starting the first week of April, Kevin will be putting his focus back on the company he built twenty+ years ago. He'll continue as an advisor to True Ventures, but Digg will be his primary focus. We couldn't think of a better person to help figure out what Digg needs to become.

Lastly, Diggnation, our official Digg podcast, will continue recording monthly while we work on the re-reboot.
Lastly, and most importantly, thank you…
To the team members we're saying goodbye to today: thank you. You took a bet on a hard problem and showed up every day. The work you did laid the groundwork for what comes next, even if it doesn't feel that way right now.

To the community who came back to Digg, submitted links, argued in the comments, and emailed us with what you wanted: we haven't forgotten why we're doing this. We know how frustrating this is, and we hope you'll give us another look once we have something to show, we’ll save your usernames!

Ultimately, the internet needs a place where we can trust the content and the people behind it. We're going to figure out how to build it.

More soon
–@justin, CEO

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 26

I hadn't logged out so when I returned to my bsky.app tab I'm confronted with the "reactivate my account" prompt. But something isn't right in Bluesky's flow here because when I click this button it simply spins for a bit and then returns to its original state. Probably phoning the wrong server.

Bluesky login screen for account reactivation

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 24

Let’s talk rish! I loved @mosh.bsky.social’s post on organizing, which I wrote a spiritual prequel to: (skip to Mobilizing vs Organizing) blog.muni.town/digital-stra... Here’s a snapshot of a product discussion I’m having with @meri.garden @vielle.dev @jaydip.me about co-editable pages in Roomy.

Roomy product discussion on Discord about co-editable pages.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 19

Have a look at minimum wages in Norway: (100 NOK is roughly 10 €/$) «Norway has legal rules for minimum wages in nine sectors. There is no set minimum wage in other sectors. Here you will find the current minimum wage rates and other pay and working conditions for the nine sectors. (..)

A screenshot of arbeidstilsynet.no page on minimum wages in Norway, listing the major/notable sectors of profession and their respective wages.

«On this page:

Construction
Electricians
Fish processing enterprises
Freight transport by road
Agriculture and horticulture
Hospitality
Passenger transport by tour bus
Cleaning
Maritime construction
Other sectors
(..)
»

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 11

Much needed nuance, thank you! One thing made me uncomfortable though, as you don't seem categorically opposed to the notion of age inference. This entire class of technology is predicated on surveillance and data harvesting and should not framed with any legitimacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Quote screenshot of https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-assurance-methods-explained

Age inference includes but not limited to:

Partnering with data brokers to gather data associated with an email, like utility use or mortgage purchases, or associated with a name, such as transaction history from a credit bureau;
Other AI model-assisted deployments that infer age based on existing account or web activity, such as account age or “happy birthday” messages;
Credit card ownership checks.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 10

All my @semble.so collections are open for submissions, and will be transitioned to group-governance when that’s a thing. semble.so/profile/erle... I want your links on ethical licensing, burnout in oss, networks of shared purpose, post-growth, ode to blogs, web files, and design from the margins❣️

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Feb 10

So GitHub has this backlinks feature where it’ll make a visible event for when an issue elsewhere on gh references the one you’re viewing. In the Atmosphere we can be doing this for all apps, so when a a @tangled.org repo is linked from @bsky.app that’d create a two-way connection and soft ping.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 30

Wouldn’t it be cool if your link created minimized version of this as an embed in the post so the most essential info is immediately available? Could even be interactive. (Drawing attention to it since this sort of cross-app discoverability feature seems to be a core part of the 2026 roadmap.)

Screenshot of event: https://smokesignal.events/pfrazee.com/3mdnyftabdn2q

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 26

Excellent! Though instead of the scary architecture diagram I'd prefer something simpler like @danabra.mov's illustration from overreacted.io/open-social/ We're still missing a network-view illustration of "here's this big network that can be entered into by people's self-sovereign accounts".

atproto illustration from https://overreacted.io/open-social/

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 25

Latest collection on @semble.so: "Design from the margins", including bangers like 'the curb-cut effect'. semble.so/profile/erle...

The curb-cut effect (illustrated): when we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone.

Source: https://sketchplanations.com/the-curb-cut-effect

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 24

I’m currently using Pocket Casts and they’ve been great, but I want a more malleable knowledge base, not just the feeds. I also want a better record-of-listens; a clear history of what I listened to when. And I want facilities for sharing my public subscriptions, along with personal taxonomies.

Screenshot of Erlend’s podcast subscriptions, 2026

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 22

Adding a Bluesky button alongside Google and an option for ‘internet handle’ alongside ‘email’ would go a long way. The UX for “atmospheric login” is still WIP but functionally supporting it is the essential first step to begin engaging with the community. chrisshank.leaflet.pub/3maf7mbsi222i

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 14

Hah I guess you might’ve already heard about it 😁

Screenshot of https://scour.ing/browse/posts/popular with standard.site listed at the top.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 12

I’ve been wondering why I can’t save my handle in my password manager when logging into various atproto apps. Deviantart for example has a login flow that separates the username entry from the password entry. I’m still able to save that username, though technical as a ‘password’.

Deviantart login demonstrating login flow with only username, no password.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Jan 3

@martin.kleppmann.com made some further clarifications here: bsky.app/profile/mart... In short: In local-first software, the availability of another computer should never prevent you from working. Aka making apps incredible-journey-proof.

Making apps “incredible-journey-proof”

No proprietary server.

1. Open-source server, can self-host

2. Peer-to-peer

3. Sync via Dropbox / Google Drive / iCloud

4. Multiple interoperable sync providers

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Dec 17

Still feels like a critically missed opportunity for @leaflet.pub to not interop with Bluesky for comments. For someone who discovered this article via leaflet itself or any medium other than *sky, there’s absolutely no sign of the generative discussion that ensued on-feed, nor its likes/shares. 🧵

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Dec 11

@cameron.pfiffer.org have you been in touch with the index.network folks at all? Having AT Protocol as another option among those platform sources would be nice, but your work - extending it with signal-seeking agents - can make AT really stand out. @simonwillison.net might also like this.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend· Nov 20

Hey @atproto.boston @atproto.com.br & @atproto.london if you want your own Roomy instance like.. roomy.space/atproto.no roomy.space/roomy.berlin All you need to do is log into roomy.space using your org account, and then opt to use that domain in the space settings. Next, a local-orgs webring.