just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@silverpill @pepper0

Don't know Autonomi, react to more general point:

- robust #p2p technologies exist
- there's no large uptake of p2p (social) networks

In 2017 investigating promising decentralized tech, most noteworthy was the landscape of tombstones of long-dead forgotten projects where people pumped in years of coding.

I came to #ActivityPub as best positioned for broad adoption and 'universal social networking' (bit disillusioned now).

Following holistic adoption approach is crucial.
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@silverpill @pepper0

With #Solid project you saw a "Just create intricate #LinkedData specs, omit appealing to dev community, target biz directly. And broad adoption will come".

With #ActivityPub we saw "Let's have these initial specs be the basis, and throw it into this grassroots ecosystem, and vNext will rise from that".

#DAT project saw cryptography and compsci experts going deep in the tech, without considering how it would be adopted, implicit "code it and they will come".

Etcetera.
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

⁂ Article

Building bridges instead of walls

Activist tech has been stuck in “bunker mode” for 20 years, and the only way out is to start building #4opens native, commons-first systems that store, share, and protect movement knowledge in ways that don’t require a priesthood of insiders to operate.

https://hamishcampbell.com/activist-tech-has-been-stuck-in-a-defensive-crouch/

In an active movement, forum threads, shared docs, livestreams, and photos aren’t just chat noise, they’re collective memory. If we treat them as […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

⁂ Article

The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths

Most of the mess, and most of the #blocking, comes down to the same old story – ownership and control. Who holds the keys? Who decides? Who gets locked out? Instead of wrestling in that cage, the #OMN takes a simpler path: we walk away.

We put a class of media into the commons, governed openly through the #4opens: open data, open process, open source, and open standards. That means no one can close it down, hoard it, or fence it off for profit. The value comes from the shared pool, not from […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

⁂ Article

The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths

Most of the mess, and most of the #blocking, comes down to the same old story – ownership and control. Who holds the keys? Who decides? Who gets locked out? Instead of wrestling in that cage, the #OMN takes a simpler path: we walk away.

We put a class of media into the commons, governed openly through the #4opens: open data, open process, open source, and open standards. That means no one can close it down, hoard it, or fence it off for profit. The value comes from the shared pool, not from […]
hamish campbell
@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@serapath for the #DAT stuff to become relevant we need to bridge to #ActivityPubhttps://hamishcampbell.com/building-bridges-instead-of-walls/ then we have the 2 paths and people can choose without isolation and alienation of the current pushing of the #geekproblem

Diversity is the bases of any ecological system, we need to treat tech in this wider view #KISS
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

⁂ Article

Building bridges instead of walls

Activist tech has been stuck in “bunker mode” for 20 years, and the only way out is to start building #4opens native, commons-first systems that store, share, and protect movement knowledge in ways that don’t require a priesthood of insiders to operate.

https://hamishcampbell.com/activist-tech-has-been-stuck-in-a-defensive-crouch/

In an active movement, forum threads, shared docs, livestreams, and photos aren’t just chat noise, they’re collective memory. If we treat them as […]
hamish campbell
@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Stories That Matter

We’re not just working on code. We're writing narrative.

In the outreach story Stalls and Code, #dat saves the day when DNS takedowns start happening.

In Oxford: Going With the Flow, we see #OGB and #OMN forming the backbone of an alternative society during #climatechaos.

These stories aren’t fantasies—they're roadmaps for resilience. They're how we reach beyond the technical bubble to bring others into the fold.
𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇸🇮)
@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@hamishcampbell
... in peer to peer its different. There is no main or any instance to choose. you run it on your machine just like everyone else and connect directly... just like anyone else.

no DNS to be censored. no big instqnces to bribe or take over... its literally unsinkable without shutting down the entire internet or boiling the ocean... and that will cause mich bigger problems and even that wont kill it entirely, because you can use bluetooth phone to phone or local wifi connections
hamish campbell
@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@serapath in the story #dat saves the day, when the DNS takedowns happen. It's about making the tech social meaningful, at the moment it's negatively irrelevant to the majority, and not important to the minority. If we can't change this, nothing works #KISS
𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇸🇮)
@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@hamishcampbell
... if you have skilled professionals who could help built ecosystems for and with the people to change the game, its best to convince them that these systems need to be encrypted, anonymous, seceret, etc... ...of course to protect from eveil surveillande capitalists.... ...but by doing or following that narrative those systems get rendered impotent to cause change at massive scales, because that would require openness so others can learn and join... and they cant if closed
hamish campbell
@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@serapath you might like this sort of story, it features #dat as the p2p pat that save the day #OGB

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/Out+reac+sort+story+-+Title%3A+Stalls+and+Code.-
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

⁂ Article

Real world tackling the #geekproblem

DRAFT

With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

⁂ Article

Real world tackling the #geekproblem

DRAFT

With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
Yung_Rotwelsch
@alt3@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

what if instead of always-on feeds, we had digital gardens?
what if media responded to weather, to light, to rest?
what if the internet could nap?

solarsocial is another seed. a theoretical framework.
it’s not just for disruption. it’s for re-rooting.

https://robotameri.ca/logbook/solarsocial/

#p2p #beakerbrowser #dat #solarpunk #securescuttlebutt
Yung_Rotwelsch
@alt3@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

what if instead of always-on feeds, we had digital gardens?
what if media responded to weather, to light, to rest?
what if the internet could nap?

solarsocial is another seed. a theoretical framework.
it’s not just for disruption. it’s for re-rooting.

https://robotameri.ca/logbook/solarsocial/

#p2p #beakerbrowser #dat #solarpunk #securescuttlebutt