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Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.
History isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we make — or lose — together.
Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.
#OMN and its projects represent one of the few remaining native paths to rebuild a free, trustworthy, and cooperative grassroots #openweb — from the ground up, not from the boardroom down. In a time when every #dotcons platform, #NGO, and state initiative wants to manage people into compliance, #OMN offers the opposite: a framework where people manage themselves through open code, shared trust, and transparent governance.
People should care about the #4opens as they are a simple, practical defence against enclosure and #mainstreaming bullshit. They are the minimum principles that keep the #openweb — and any project that claims to be “open” — actually open, alive, and accountable.
Whew. Glad to see that these broken RSS settings have been removed from Drupal.
https://www.drupal.org/node/3519410
They wouldn't have been all that helpful even if they did work.
With it being an open source project that champions the Open Web, creating an RSS feed should be as easy possible.
Now I can take this disclaimer out of my blog post 🥴
https://devcollaborative.com/blog/how-add-rss-feed-drupal-website
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Support letter for funding application
To Whom It May Concern,I am Hamish Campbell, a UK-based media professional, long-time participant in the independent media movement, and advocate for #4opens, federated, and trust-based communication networks.I am writing to express my support for the #datweb project, which I see as a needed step toward rebalancing the web away from centralized control and enclosure.Over the past 30 years working within grassroots and activist media, from the early days of Indymedia through to my current work […]
The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.
They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.
If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons, mediation before they move in.
Defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.
Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.
Talking to Our Left Friends
We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.
Keep this simple:
Fear / control → right-wing
Trust / open → left-wing
That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.
To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.
That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.
So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?
When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?
It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.
The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.
They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.
If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons, mediation before they move in.
Defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.
Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.
Talking to Our Left Friends
We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.
Keep this simple:
Fear / control → right-wing
Trust / open → left-wing
That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.
To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.
That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.
So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?
When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?
It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.
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Support letter for funding application
To Whom It May Concern,I am Hamish Campbell, a UK-based media professional, long-time participant in the independent media movement, and advocate for #4opens, federated, and trust-based communication networks.I am writing to express my support for the #datweb project, which I see as a needed step toward rebalancing the web away from centralized control and enclosure.Over the past 30 years working within grassroots and activist media, from the early days of Indymedia through to my current work […]
In #alttech there’s a lot of “doing good,” but much of it’s blinded good — soft smiles masking quiet conformity to the #deathcult.
When “care” becomes control and “community” becomes enclosure, we lose what made the #openweb alive.
The fix? Compost the mess — start with the #fluffy / #spiky debate and rebuild trust from difference, not denial.
In #alttech there’s a lot of “doing good,” but much of it’s blinded good — soft smiles masking quiet conformity to the #deathcult.
When “care” becomes control and “community” becomes enclosure, we lose what made the #openweb alive.
The fix? Compost the mess — start with the #fluffy / #spiky debate and rebuild trust from difference, not denial.
Dave Winer on Decentralisation, WordPress, and Open Publishing, by @davew and @nathanwrigley:
https://wptavern.com/podcast/186-dave-winer-on-decentralisation-wordpress-and-open-publishing
Dave Winer on Decentralisation, WordPress, and Open Publishing, by @davew and @nathanwrigley:
https://wptavern.com/podcast/186-dave-winer-on-decentralisation-wordpress-and-open-publishing
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STAR WARS: THE SOFT EMPIRE
Let's try some metaphors DRAFT (was looking for a Star Wars meme but find them horribly right-wing, we have made a real mess,,,)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4JGeUhvSw
Had to use an old video, kinda on subject to the metaphor
A long time ago, in a network not so far away… The internet was once alive with wild diversity. Countless small worlds of the #openweb - linked by fragile trust, shared roots, and messy, beautiful collaboration.
The #FOSS Federation of Commons was rising… […]
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STAR WARS: THE SOFT EMPIRE
Let's try some metaphors DRAFT (was looking for a Star Wars meme but find them horribly right-wing, we have made a real mess,,,)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4JGeUhvSw
Had to use an old video, kinda on subject to the metaphor
A long time ago, in a network not so far away… The internet was once alive with wild diversity. Countless small worlds of the #openweb - linked by fragile trust, shared roots, and messy, beautiful collaboration.
The #FOSS Federation of Commons was rising… […]
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