Administration

Who is behind mementomori.social and why? Read the story here.

Administration

Mementomori.social was founded by Roni Laukkarinen, known online by the nickname Rolle. The instance is backed by a Finnish digital agency called Digitoimisto Dude Oy ("Osakeyhtiö," abbreviated Oy, is the Finnish term for a limited company), where Roni is also the founder and one of the main owners.

If you want to know more about the technical details, read about the servers page.

Other admins include ikkeT, raikas, lari, mustikkasoppa.

Digitoimisto Dude Oy

Dude is a web design agency specializing in WordPress and open source. While the company is for profit, they release everything they can as open source — you can check out their GitHub. You might also like to read an interview (in Finnish, but translatable) published by COSS – The Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions.

About the owner, Roni "Rolle" Laukkarinen

Hello! 👋 Let me switch to first person here. I’m a web developer, entrepreneur, and sysop from Finland, a small country up north in Europe, between Russia and Sweden.

Long story short, I built my first website in 1998 when I was about ten years old. I got into computers through my father, who had his first PC back in the 80s as a hardcore hobbyist. I instantly fell in love with HTML and CSS — and the rest of the web languages followed soon after.

Me in the 90s.

Me as a teenager.

My first Linux distribution was Mandrake (a Red Hat variant, later known as Mandriva), released in 1998. In the 2000s, I got into servers — again through my father, who ran his own home server inside a wardrobe (my mom really didn’t like that, haha).

I never stopped coding or writing — I’ve been doing both daily ever since. I grew up on the Internet. My first social media experience was MySpace in the early 2000s. After that, I tried nearly every platform I came across: Jaiku, Bebo, PicPlz (basically Instagram before Instagram), Friendster, StumbleUpon, Delicious, GetGlue, Google+... and countless others — I counted more than 160 social platforms. It was the "Wild West" of social media back then, with users creating custom CSS and designs for their profiles. Then Facebook came along and changed everything — not necessarily for the better.

In 2013, I started my own company specializing in websites and servers. We build fully customized WordPress sites — lightweight, fast, and bloat-free — and host them with top-quality upkeep services. That’s how Dude was born. Today, we operate mainly in the Finnish market.

That’s about it. I hope you feel confident that you’re in good hands.

If you’d like to know more about me, check out my now page:

Now - @rolle / Web designer, web developer@rolle / Web designer, web developer

Old office desk – This photo was actually used when hiring new front-end developers.

At the office in 2022.

The old wardrobe server I mentioned earlier.

My old office desk.