Grassroots #openweb infrastructure is need for a different future
https://hamishcampbell.com/grassroots-openweb-infrastructure-is-need-for-a-different-future/
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TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF BLIND HATRED AND UNFETTERED IGNORANCE, BOTH NURTURED BY LEADERS WHO KNOW THEY ARE NO LONGER CAPABLE OF THINKING FOR THEMSELVES…
INSANITY RUN AMOK. 😎✨
We often frame the damage LLMs do to open source as side effects, but realistically, this is Claude operating precisely as intended… by the vendor. The aim is to convert the value created by other devs into profits for the AI company. It does so by automating the process of finding existing code, stripping it of authorship, matching it to the prompted task, and redeploying it for the company's customer. That, whether they realize it or not, is what the customer is paying the AI company to do.
A little #fluffy reminder, when an #openweb projects gets flooded with conspiracy, dogma and endless prat fights, the grounded, constructive people drift away - sometimes straight back to the #dotcons.
Being independent doesn't mean believing everything. Being radical doesn't mean shutting down dialogue. Let's make spaces where people can think, disagree, learn and still build things together.
Mutual aid works through trust networks. It needs communities where people actually know each other.
Otherwise, good intentions end up feeding the #deathcult - it is always hungry.
Think about this when sharing need/begging posts from people you have no community in common with. Before amplifying, get to know them and their community.
Trust is part of mutual aid. #mutualaid #openweb #community
The internet didn’t just accidentally become shit. The #OMN and the fight against the #dotcons https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-and-the-fight-against-the-dotcons/
We dig. We turn over the old soil, question assumptions, and get honest about what's working, and what isn't. We plant, build in the open, share power, and let go of fear. We grow, not by scaling up, but by spreading out: resilient, diverse and interconnected. That's how we cultivate the commons.
20 years of #dotcons selling libertarian individualism has pushed aside the collective politics that once made the #openweb revolutionary.
For 20 years the #geekproblem helped turn "left tech" into the #closedweb. That's a disaster we can't keep repeating.
No prat fights, we need alternatives: #IndymediaBack, #OMN, #OGB, #MakingHistory. To rebuild collective power.
The #OGB matters because the #openweb needs better ways to have trust-based conversations and trust-based governance.
The project comes from years of grassroots organising: voluntary cooperation, collaboration and human-scale decision-making.
Alternative tech has often copied governance assumptions from the #mainstreaming. The #4opens offers a simpler starting point for building governance structures native to the #Fediverse.
The #OGB is a path to move beyond #mainstreaming: governance that fits the culture of federated, open, grassroots networks rather than forcing them into centralised models.
#IndymediaBack is a reboot of the original #Indymedia: decentralized, grassroots media built around open publishing and activist participation.
The point isn't nostalgia, it's learning from the old #fashernistas/#geekproblem split and avoiding another round of tribalism and control politics.
The reboot is about rebuilding the path toward decentralized structures and an #OMN that supports direct democracy, open publishing and anti-authoritarian organising.
This time we also have hashtags, metadata and the semantic #openweb to connect the media commons.
The challenge is simple: don't repeat the old mistakes. Build trust, keep it open, and don't let control become the culture.
#climatechaos has arrived I see it everywhere, on the river, online but not so much in traditional media which lags holding onto a #mainstreaming #deathcult worshipping.
Dumping Big Tech isn't just a matter of personal politics or even of tech sovereignty (which is a con anway) it's a matter of survival. Big Tech is the latest flag bearer for civilisation-ending extractivism and all the delusions about progress that keep us addicted to it.
When every issue becomes “my opinion”, “my identity”, “my choice”, or “my feed”, we lose the ability to understand systems. Feelings/Facts, #stupidindividualism is about peoples role in systems https://hamishcampbell.com/feelings-facts-stupidindividualism-is-about-peoples-role-in-systems/
From the same article:
As long as the oligarchy is in control:
government will dole out even more subsidies, bailouts, and loans to big corporations, and it will continue to eliminate protections for consumers, workers.
They’re stoking racial resentments, describing human beings as illegal aliens, fueling hatred of immigrants, and spreading fears of communists and socialists.
TO DISTRACT Americans from how the oligarchy is looting the nation, buying off politicians, and silencing critics.
“The #4opens are difficult to mainstream precisely because they redistribute power.
- #OpenData challenges information monopolies.
- #OpenSource challenges technological dependency.
- #OpenStandards challenge platform lock-in.
- #OpenProcess challenges hidden governance.
These are practical mechanisms for keeping communities in control of the systems they depend on. This is also why #DIY matters, communities that create their own media, archives, governance and infrastructure are much harder to absorb than communities dependent on external institutions. Autonomy creates resilience were dependency creates opportunities for co-option.”
I am working on drafting 45 articles based on the #OMN hashtag story to auto put out every 2 days for 3 months of development of one of our social coding projects.
Did I say we might have funding to develop one of the OMN projects...
I am writing them now so I can concentrate on the dev over the 9 months the project runs for…
#AskQ is the hashtag.
UPDATE: I have now drafted 42 posts to come out in the autumn when we are coding #makinghistory they will come out under the #AskQ hashtag
Old #Boatingeurope videos. Down the river
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AqRoVS4XcqBbfF5e7
Good engagement on the website https://hamishcampbell.com/engagement/ but we have a problem with the server getting overwhelmed we need to both upgrade and optimise - who is up for helping with this https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/hcampbell