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Erlend Sogge Heggen

@erlend@writing.exchange

Bullish on kindness.  
Founder of Spicy Lobster studios and Weird.
https://weird.one

Formerly VP of Community / Product Lead at Discourse.

#opensource #gamedev #fediverse

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Joined January 31, 2023

Home:

https://erlend.sh

GitHub:

https://github.com/erlend-sh

Open Source Explained:

https://blog.erlend.sh/open-source-explained

Web of the People:

https://blog.erlend.sh/web-of-the-people

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Dec 02, 2025

Roughly this time tomorrow I’ll be chatting with the folks at Sensemaking Scenius about all things Open Source, something I’ve dedicated >20 years of my life to and have *opinions* about.

I reckon it’s high time we made OSS an innately anti-fascist movement that doesn’t pander to oligarchs and autocrats. Let’s talk about it!

https://luma.com/z9ivf64k

#opensource #antifa #democracy

luma.com

Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon · Zoom · Luma

Have you been wondering about the future of open-source? Do you find yourself caught between idealistic visions of collaborative commons and the messy reality…

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Nov 14, 2025

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.

But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

#OpenSource #foss #licensing

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Oct 18, 2025

Er du i Oslo? Bli med på gratis festival idag så treffes vi der!

Våre panelister skal mimre om det gode gamle internett, se på hva som gikk galt og snakke om løsninger som åpne protokoller, datakooperativer, nye selskapsformer, og kunst 💖

https://attac.no/arrangement/big-tech-ma-vekk/

#Oslo #Norge #fediverse #indieweb #socialweb

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Oct 08, 2025

@fedify@hollo.social

Hope this leads to an even larger shared-layer between all the js/node #activitypub implementations like Ghost, NodeBB, *keys et.al.

Particularly wishing for convergence around a shared *identity core* across all these AP apps in accordance with NomadPub by @silverpill@mitra.social

https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/nomadpub.md

FEP-ef61: Portable Objects
FEP-ae97: Client-side activity signing

That in addition to a common OAuth foundation would effectively be ActivityPub 2.0 and on-par with atproto.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Oct 05, 2025

The web can be made personal again.

https://blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/

> If you're a regular internet user the Personal Data Storage paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a shareholder-controlled corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.

#fediverse #indieweb #agency

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Oct 16, 2023

Replying to @Rushkoff@social.coop

@Rushkoff good discussion about this recently via @kissane https://mas.to/@kissane/111218243061468829 Incidentally, she’d make a great guest for Team Human, given the grim timeliness of her incredible Myanmar series as a retrospective on how centralized, monocultural mega-platforms repeatedly and predictably fail to facilitate civilized discourse. In fact, as her writing shows, in many ways they disincentivize it.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Sep 04, 2023

Replying to @GeraldKutney@noc.social

@GeraldKutney@noc.social I’d love to see some science done on the prevalence of climate denialism in the #fediverse. My basic hypothesis is that climate deniers don’t get nearly the same amount of attention on here, because there isn’t a corrupt advertising incentive (controversy = eyeballs = money) to add fuel to stupid fires.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Sep 04, 2023

Replying to @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social so what’s the total amount stolen to date? Seems poster-worthy.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Sep 03, 2023

Replying to @kik@techhub.social

@kik@techhub.social yay, welcome! 🤗

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Aug 25, 2023

Replying to @caesar@indieweb.social

@caesar@indieweb.social @astrojuanlu@social.juanlu.space it’s not mentioned on that page, but there are many amicable mentions of it elsewhere in the long tail of this development: https://toot.matereal.eu/@schmittlauch/110949571279023513

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Aug 25, 2023

Replying to @erlend@writing.exchange

@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org also hugely impactful as a way around GitHub’s moat as the de-facto social network of open source development. I follow hundreds of developers on GitHub, though mainly just to keep track of who I’ve interacted with, effectively adding them to a dev-specific address book. I have a much harder time keeping track of non-GitHub devs on alt platforms, but if I could follow them on the fediverse that’s actually preferable over GitHub’s proprietary follow list.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Aug 25, 2023

Replying to @Brendanjones@fosstodon.org

@Brendanjones@fosstodon.org the Why and How sections of that issue are highly instructive. Your understanding seems correct: In the most expansive version of this vision, anyone running an AP-enabled git instance (with one or more repos) can send MRs to another instance’s repo, without having to sign up there. For starters this will be GitLab-specific, but that’s already huge for self-hosters of GitLab who currently don’t benefit from the internal interop of the GitLab.com network.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · Aug 25, 2023

Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing #ActivityPub! 🙌

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send a merge request to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git

First bite-sized todo on the implementation path there is ‘subscribe to project releases’.

Smart move by #GitLab; through ActivityPub they’re getting a distributed version of GitHub’s social layer.

@fediversenews #fediverse #GitHub #git

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend@writing.exchange · May 03, 2023

Replying to @downey@floss.social

@downey@floss.social @mozilla@mastodon.social I suggest migrating to @omnivore@pkm.social it’s great!

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Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon · Zoom · Luma

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