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The #dotcons drained the VC swamp and now guzzle from the mainstream trough of corporate socialism

In the USA #techshit mess, #OpenAI is busy wrapping itself in the stars and stripes, pushing the fantasy of “democratic AI” while the democracy fig leaf is collapsing. This isn’t democracy – it’s branding. It’s the normal Silicon Valley laundering greed through the American imperialism.

The #nastyfew, Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son, and the Saudis will do fine. They’ll gorge on taxpayer, subsides, pouring billions down the drain, just like the political as normal […]

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In tech, it is really important, to see the unit of measure

Most software today = individualist. Even “collective” tools (Fediverse servers, enterprise SaaS, etc.) are just abstractions that aggregate individuals. The default assumption is the liberal subject: the sovereign individual. The infrastructure is built for self-expression, personal feeds, private chats, me, me, me. That’s why for example, when you step into libertarian codebases like #nostr, the smell of #stupidindividualism is everywhere.Communities are treated as “groups of […]

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The #dotcons drained the VC swamp and now guzzle from the mainstream trough of corporate socialism

In the USA #techshit mess, #OpenAI is busy wrapping itself in the stars and stripes, pushing the fantasy of “democratic AI” while the democracy fig leaf is collapsing. This isn’t democracy – it’s branding. It’s the normal Silicon Valley laundering greed through the American imperialism.

The #nastyfew, Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son, and the Saudis will do fine. They’ll gorge on taxpayer, subsides, pouring billions down the drain, just like the political as normal […]

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In tech, it is really important, to see the unit of measure

Most software today = individualist. Even “collective” tools (Fediverse servers, enterprise SaaS, etc.) are just abstractions that aggregate individuals. The default assumption is the liberal subject: the sovereign individual. The infrastructure is built for self-expression, personal feeds, private chats, me, me, me. That’s why for example, when you step into libertarian codebases like #nostr, the smell of #stupidindividualism is everywhere.Communities are treated as “groups of […]

AI slop, to #enshittification, the #FT writing on the internet is adding to the mess https://hamishcampbell.com/from-unstoppable-slop-to-enshittification-the-ft-on-the-internet-mess/ We need to remember the old one. Compost the current slop. Rebuild from the roots. Base it on native #4opens, community, and the culture that carried us before this #dotcons mess took over.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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”. […]

@elena @oblomov

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 #blockinghttps://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...

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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”. […]

@elena @oblomov

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 #blockinghttps://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...

When a #openweb project gets flooded with nuttiness, the grounded, constructive people drift away—often straight back into the clutches of the #dotcons. When you push conspiracy thinking and act dogmatic, you’re not being “edgy” or “independent”—you’re actively sabotaging the possibility of a better world. This isn’t resistance; it’s erosion. Every moment spent spreading unfounded claims or shutting down dialogue is a moment stolen from building something real, something we can all stand on. Please stop and think if this is you. Keep your media rooted in reality. Do good, not harm.

When a #openweb project gets flooded with nuttiness, the grounded, constructive people drift away—often straight back into the clutches of the #dotcons. When you push conspiracy thinking and act dogmatic, you’re not being “edgy” or “independent”—you’re actively sabotaging the possibility of a better world. This isn’t resistance; it’s erosion. Every moment spent spreading unfounded claims or shutting down dialogue is a moment stolen from building something real, something we can all stand on. Please stop and think if this is you. Keep your media rooted in reality. Do good, not harm.

Security is not enough, survival is not victory, we can be safe and irrelevant – or vulnerable and changing the world by breaking corporate dependency, by building the infrastructure of a post- #dotcons world. Rebalance, by shifting focus from tools to cultures https://hamishcampbell.com/rebalance-by-shifting-focus-from-tools-to-cultures/

Security is not enough. Survival is not victory. We can be safe and irrelevant — or vulnerable and changing the world.

The #4opens are not a nice-to-have; they’re the bare minimum for activist tech that matters:

A bigger story, tech is just the tool. The path is:

We are breaking corporate dependency.

We are building the infrastructure of a post- #dotcons world.

We are not waiting for permission, funding, or standards committees.

#OMN is a social tech path.