hamish campbell
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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.
hamish campbell
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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 #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.
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...but then again, thats something that is unlilely to happen, because fediverse ppl follow their own ideas. ...but we'll definitly get there.
First it woupd be cool to have a fully functional p2p-news-app with proper UI/UX ...and then maybe a bit of testing and then maybe integration with fediverse and if anyone likes the p2p experience, maybe they can even help lobby for funding, because it is tpugh to endlessly push this forward without any support
@serapath most of the mess and #blocking is based on ownership and control. We simply walk away from this mess by putting a class of media into the commons with the #4opens
And yes you would be right this #mainstreamin mess will fallow us eventually but by the time it catches up we might have changed society a bit to have a different path as outcome #KISS
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-with-indymediaback-and-makeinghistory-are-paths/
hamish campbell
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A guide for staying honest and native hamishcampbell.com/a-guide-for-... That’s where projects like #OMN, the rebooted #Indymedia, and the #4opens live. Not trying to escape friction, but embracing it. Mediating it. Letting it guide us toward what’s honest, what’s native, what lasts.
A guide for staying honest and...
hamish campbell
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@Pikapods the non-private data, most media is in a commons #4opens
From this, can you see the narrowness of most #mainstreaming views?
hamish campbell
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@yianiris @info this is all a part of the #4opens and the #OMN by having all public data (the vast majority) in public commons and then by distribution this data redundantly in federated commons (as you say text and metadata in wiki format is not heavy).
Then this data can be backed up hot and cold in a #KISS format that can simply be fed back to the network if it's "lost". Sorting is by grouped hashtag to make data flow.
It's a #KISS project that will work if we can get the coding to happen, un mediated by excessive #geekproblem agendas.
@hamishcampbell kind of the same problem as hacking a mastodon instance allows a hacker to impersonate everyone who is registered on that instance to the rest of the world.
...but yeah... otherwise it works 🙂
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I am thinking of not a single bridge but federation, with both DAT and AP both running on the server sharing the same database of media objects. As the data flows around and is text and metadata is hugely redundantly stored (in public #4opens). Then one server being hacked can be rolled back out of the pool #KISS
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-with-indymediaback-and-makeinghistory-are-paths/
@yianiris @info this is all a part of the #4opens and the #OMN by having all public data (the vast majority) in public commons and then by distribution this data redundantly in federated commons (as you say text and metadata in wiki format is not heavy).
Then this data can be backed up hot and cold in a #KISS format that can simply be fed back to the network if it's "lost". Sorting is by grouped hashtag to make data flow.
It's a #KISS project that will work if we can get the coding to happen, un mediated by excessive #geekproblem agendas.
@Pikapods the non-private data, most media is in a commons #4opens
From this, can you see the narrowness of most #mainstreaming views?
So, what does a #4opens world look like? It looks like the world we’re already building, underneath the rubble of the old one. Time to pick up your tools. https://hamishcampbell.com/what-duse-a-4opens-world-look-like/
This isn’t about hope in the abstract, it’s about practical solidarity in the spreading ruins. We need to compost lies, to build #4opens horizontal networks https://hamishcampbell.com/we-compost-lies-to-build-4opens-rooted-local-horizontal-networks-of-resistance-and-renewal/
hamish campbell
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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.
Start building commons-first infrastructure.
Re-anchor the work in openness, federation, and trust-based networks:
#4opens as baseline: open data, open source, open standards, open process - non-negotiable.
#OMN as the publishing spine: a trust-based network where stories, actions, and knowledge can move between activist spaces.
Build bridges to existing movements: unions, climate justice, housing struggles. Tech has to flow into real-world organising, not just other techies.
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.