@yianiris @Fat_Farang @yianiris@libretooth.gr
Yep there will be ongoing #blocking from the common sense monetizing people, at this stage we need to simply ignore this.
Though we do need seed funding for servers and subsistence for crew, we are running out of this, the #OMN servers are running on fumes.... as are the crew...
@yianiris @Fat_Farang
I think the is general agreement of broad issues @yianiris@libretooth.gr I talk about a lot of the issues you bring up on the site.
Yep, liberals have been hard blocking, but the right is now crushing them, which means they will be less #blocking for the left as well. It's naked class war ongoing. So it's more possible to build real affinity group radical progressive projects and infrastructure like #indymediaback using the #Fediverse as a good path to do this (with bridging to #p2p for repression and the more paranoid) #OMN
Who are the #nastyfew?
They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects.
On the surface, they don’t always look bad – in fact, they often present as competent, articulate, even charming. But scratch that surface and the pattern is clear: their drive is not shared flourishing, it’s possession and control.
This minority #nastyfew, from a historical view, today’s bourgeoisie. As Marx outlined […]
Compost the blocking, keep the seeds alive, and make space for growth
It’s good to see more people turning their focus back to the #openweb. For the past five years of the #reboot we’ve been distracted in a signal-to-noise mess from the #fashionistas. That time needs to be over, we need to start looking clearly at both internal rot and the external threats.
A good first step is in balancing the realisation that we actually have far more direct power to deal with the internal mess than we do over the eternal #dotcons and their #closedweb “common sense”. […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/compost-the-blocking-keep-the-seeds-alive-and-make-space-for-growth/
It's good to see people focusing on the #openweb, we have had a signal-to-noise issue from our #fashionistas for the last 5 years of the reboot, its pastime to focuses on issues internally and externally. As we have more direct power over internal mess than we do over the external #dotcons I am focusing activism on composting the internal #blocking https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=compost yep, we need to balance this with pushing back the #dotcons and there #closedweb "common sense". We have piles of #techshit to compost...
Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan
The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.”
The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools.
Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/why-teach-everyone-to-code-has-become-a-dead-end-slogan/
@serapath the whole thing about social change by training programming is in theory a path, but it's a failed path for the last 20 years, and it's had amply funding and resources pushed at it so we have plenty of illustration of this fail.
This is another example of the blinded #geekproblem
I use the word blinded to illustrate that people can't see the sense in front of their faces #KISS
And I use the hashtag #blocking to show the outcome of this blindness #KISS
The #KISS #OMN path is about building practical, commons-based media tools now, not later. Most of the mess - and the endless #blocking - comes from ownership and control. We sidestep that by placing a whole class of media firmly in the commons under the #4opens. This doesn’t “fix” the #mainstreaming mess overnight, but it gives us space to work before it catches up. By then, if we’ve done it right, society will have shifted toward a more open path.
This isn’t theory. If you’ve got resources, fund development. If you’re technical, code the apps and servers. If you understand UX, design for accessibility. If you do media, tell the story. The projects in the stories - from Oxford: Going with the Flow to Stalls and Code - are grounded in practical use and designed to mediate social breakdown for better outcomes. But they only work if we build them and use them in time. So let’s keep it positive, simple, and moving forward.
The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths
Most of the mess, and most of the #blocking, comes down to the same old story – ownership and control. Who holds the keys? Who decides? Who gets locked out? Instead of wrestling in that cage, the #OMN takes a simpler path: we walk away.
We put a class of media into the commons, governed openly through the #4opens: open data, open process, open source, and open standards. That means no one can close it down, hoard it, or fence it off for profit. The value comes from the shared pool, not from […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-with-indymediaback-and-makeinghistory-are-paths/
Rebalance, by shifting focus from tools to cultures
Appropriate technology in activist tech means tools built for our real contexts, not for Silicon Valley fantasies or bunker-dwelling paranoia. It’s about lightweight, repairable, understandable systems that communities can actually run, adapt, and share. Right now, the #geekproblem pushes us toward shiny, #dotcons shaped over-engineered toys that serve developer ego more than people and community need or bloated encryption stacks nobody understands, federated protocols that collapse under […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/rebalance-by-shifting-focus-from-tools-to-cultures/
This #blocking order is very broad and concerning from the perspective of #netneutrality and open internet.
Signal, Noise, and the Mess of #Mainstreaming
“Because controversy equals attention and attention equals brand recognition.” LINK
Yes. An interesting thread on advertising. But let’s add to this view in other paths:
Mainstreaming controversy = attention.
Alt controversy = #blocking, by ignoring.
It’s not about real disagreement or dynamic ideas. It’s about channelling noise that flatters the existing structures and silences anything genuinely alternative. This isn’t controversy, it’s signal-to-noise warfare. And right […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/signal-noise-and-the-mess-of-mainstreaming/
If you need a definition of the #geekproblem its putting the social side of tech outside of tech. It's the behaver of child putting is head in the sand and saying I can't hear you.
And this is strong #mainstreaming #blocking of any working alt paths in tech. It's a problem, a #geekproblem that we do need to talk about.
Why #NGO and fluffy #openweb tech events should include radical real grassroots projects
If you need a working definition of the #geekproblem, it’s the habit, no, the reflex, of putting the social side of tech outside of tech. It’s the behaviour of someone sticking their head in the sand and mumbling, “That’s not my department.”It’s “I just write the code.”It’s “We’re neutral tools.”It’s “Let’s keep politics out of it.”
This isn’t just naivety, it’s a deep, culturally reinforced avoidance of responsibility. And it’s one of the key reasons why even […]
@adisonverlice @nick precisely.
Whereas @delta couldn't hand over any data even if they wanted to and since it's #FLOSS any attempts at i.e. hardcoding a #backdoor or #blocking domains would be trivial to detect and undo by virtue of #forking.
Whereas with @signalapp one has to rely on @Mer__edith et. al.'s promise that the code they release - regardless if app but esoechally backend - is the code they run.
Which is doubtful at best aka. "#TrustMeBro!" - level of guarantee…
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-case-for-open-source-investment-in-europes-digital-sovereignty-push/ Tech Policy Press on treating open source as EU public infrastructure, calling for a Sovereign Tech Fund.
But let's be honest — the #geekproblem is part of the problem, and the #NGO crowd often are the #blocking. We need more than funding. We need native, messy, radical projects. #4opens #OMN
OK this is good as far as it goes but the #Geekproblem are a part of the problem and the #NGO crew are the #blocking itself...
https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=geekproblem+EU+NGO
Can you see any of this as an issue?
