The #OMN is a simple project https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/ The #OMN is not an app you install. It’s a set of processes + tools to move us from isolation to commons, from #dotcons back to #openweb.
The #OMN is a simple project https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/ The #OMN is not an app you install. It’s a set of processes + tools to move us from isolation to commons, from #dotcons back to #openweb.
@warmsignull take you up on that, what do you think the story of alt tech/media/culture here https://hamishcampbell.com/ and then the concrete native projects that row from this #OMN
I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
The #OMN is a simple project. But simplicity is deceptive https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/
The #OMN plan, is to keep working and presume people will stop being #mainstreaming prats at some point. The #Fashionista problem: How fear blocks change https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fashionista-problem-how-fear-blocks-change/
Within loose structures, not rigid ones.
We work with principles, functions, and flows. From there, it’s up to producers and participants to shape the human flows in ways that fit their context. That flexibility is the point.
If we lock this into hard structures, we lose the ability to adapt, to mediate, to respond to culture as it actually exists. Rigid, freeze power and kill experimentation.
The #OMN path works if the structure stays light enough for people to inhabit, bend, and remake. Build the flows, not the cages.
If we build hard structures, we can’t do any of this.
https://hamishcampbell.com/stories/ These stories embed #OMN theory and practice as a utopian direction of travel, not a technical blueprint. They illustrate a path of doing social change, not a finished model of how it will actually unfold. The reality will always be messier than the stories. It has to be. Real people, real politics, real power, real failure – none of that fits neatly into narrative form.
Use these as tools alongside the hashtag story to invite people in, if they help people understand why we need #OMN paths – and feel able to take a first, imperfect step – then they’re doing a needed job #KISS
The #OMN is a simple project. But simplicity is deceptive https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/
#OMN Stories https://hamishcampbell.com/stories/ need to write an intro text for these and a 3ed story for #indynediaback. Ideas please?
I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
Within loose structures, not rigid ones.
We work with principles, functions, and flows. From there, it’s up to producers and participants to shape the human flows in ways that fit their context. That flexibility is the point.
If we lock this into hard structures, we lose the ability to adapt, to mediate, to respond to culture as it actually exists. Rigid, freeze power and kill experimentation.
The #OMN path works if the structure stays light enough for people to inhabit, bend, and remake. Build the flows, not the cages.
If we build hard structures, we can’t do any of this.
One of the problems with the current pile of shit is that meany people think they’re right, so they retreat into small tribalisms and spend their energy attacking whoever is closest, to no effect.
This #fashionista #lifestyleism is bred by #stupidindividualism, which itself is a product of the #deathcult we’ve all been worshipping for the last forty years.
It feels like action. It looks like virtue. But it goes nowhere.
Instead of digging, people posture. Instead of building, they fight over aesthetics and identity. The pile just gets higher.
You don’t fix this by being more correct.
You fix it by picking up a shovel.
One of the problems with the current pile of shit is that meany people think they’re right, so they retreat into small tribalisms and spend their energy attacking whoever is closest, to no effect.
This #fashionista #lifestyleism is bred by #stupidindividualism, which itself is a product of the #deathcult we’ve all been worshipping for the last forty years.
It feels like action. It looks like virtue. But it goes nowhere.
Instead of digging, people posture. Instead of building, they fight over aesthetics and identity. The pile just gets higher.
You don’t fix this by being more correct.
You fix it by picking up a shovel.
To see under the pile of shit that is our postmodern world. You can use this simple divide for judging value. Those who work with in social truth and thoughs who actively denies this simple social thing.
This divide is a shoal for quickly moving the shit to the compost heap. If you look into your tools head #OMN
The #OMN plan, is to keep working and presume people will stop being #mainstreaming prats at some point. The #Fashionista problem: How fear blocks change https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fashionista-problem-how-fear-blocks-change/
https://hamishcampbell.com/stories/ These stories embed #OMN theory and practice as a utopian direction of travel, not a technical blueprint. They illustrate a path of doing social change, not a finished model of how it will actually unfold. The reality will always be messier than the stories. It has to be. Real people, real politics, real power, real failure – none of that fits neatly into narrative form.
Use these as tools alongside the hashtag story to invite people in, if they help people understand why we need #OMN paths – and feel able to take a first, imperfect step – then they’re doing a needed job #KISS
