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It’s messy by design, because it's rooted in real-world activist practice. The #OGB: A Native Path for Open Governance https://hamishcampbell.com/the-ogb-a-native-path-for-open-governance/
It’s messy by design, because it's rooted in real-world activist practice. The #OGB: A Native Path for Open Governance https://hamishcampbell.com/the-ogb-a-native-path-for-open-governance/
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“Your Party” and the Fluffy/Spiky debate – a working path
Fluffy side: cautious, slow-moving, grounded in “keeping the peace” and managing optics. Classic problem: avoidance of conflict means bottlenecking decisions, blocking energy, and trying to centralise control, so things don’t blow up. Spiky side: impatient, direct, “get it done” energy. Spikiness pushes things forward, but often burns bridges, creating splits and mistrust. Neither path alone works – one stalls out, the other fragments. Their clash in the UK “Your Party”, just […]
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“Your Party” and the Fluffy/Spiky debate – a working path
Fluffy side: cautious, slow-moving, grounded in “keeping the peace” and managing optics. Classic problem: avoidance of conflict means bottlenecking decisions, blocking energy, and trying to centralise control, so things don’t blow up. Spiky side: impatient, direct, “get it done” energy. Spikiness pushes things forward, but often burns bridges, creating splits and mistrust. Neither path alone works – one stalls out, the other fragments. Their clash in the UK “Your Party”, just […]
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Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN
The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.
The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.
The last step is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil […]
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Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN
The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.
The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.
The last step is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil […]
The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.
The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.
The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil
What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS
The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.
The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.
The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil
What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS
Should we apply again?
Yes, not because they’ll suddenly “get it,” but because persistence itself is part of the composting, a record, a point of pressure.
Apply and simultaneously build a parallel path of community support, donations, partnerships, volunteer time. That way, the inevitable #NLnet rejection doesn’t kill all the momentum.
Shifting the blocking? Maybe translate native ideas into their language. Bureaucracies like “deliverables,” “impact metrics,” “alignment with EU digital policy.” Wrap your radical #4opens core in a frame they can recognise: resilience, digital sovereignty, anti-disinformation, democratic participation. That’s harder for them to ignore and strengthens the “native” path.
Expose the bias. Not in a bitter way, but in a constructive one: point out the repeated rejection of grassroots-native projects while funding flows to #geekproblem/NGOs. This pressure helps them re-balance (and others will maybe notice).
If you want to help, share the 3 projects ( #MakingHistory, #IndymediaBack, #OGB) in #Fediverse channels. Frame this positively: “If we want a living #openweb, we need to fund and support native projects, not just corporate/NGO clones.” make it harder for them to keep sidelining.
Should we apply again?
Yes, not because they’ll suddenly “get it,” but because persistence itself is part of the composting, a record, a point of pressure.
Apply and simultaneously build a parallel path of community support, donations, partnerships, volunteer time. That way, the inevitable #NLnet rejection doesn’t kill all the momentum.
Shifting the blocking? Maybe translate native ideas into their language. Bureaucracies like “deliverables,” “impact metrics,” “alignment with EU digital policy.” Wrap your radical #4opens core in a frame they can recognise: resilience, digital sovereignty, anti-disinformation, democratic participation. That’s harder for them to ignore and strengthens the “native” path.
Expose the bias. Not in a bitter way, but in a constructive one: point out the repeated rejection of grassroots-native projects while funding flows to #geekproblem/NGOs. This pressure helps them re-balance (and others will maybe notice).
If you want to help, share the 3 projects ( #MakingHistory, #IndymediaBack, #OGB) in #Fediverse channels. Frame this positively: “If we want a living #openweb, we need to fund and support native projects, not just corporate/NGO clones.” make it harder for them to keep sidelining.
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The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
In the tech world of social change and challenge, we’re living with a strange imbalance. Too often, the spaces we use and try and build are crowded with useless, self-destructive prats – people more interested in ego, control, and clout than in making anything grow from the roots. And when they do very rearly act, their “help” is often poison: it blocks, slows, and derails.
At the same time, the number of people doing truly useful, collective, grounded work feels small. You can see […]
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The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
In the tech world of social change and challenge, we’re living with a strange imbalance. Too often, the spaces we use and try and build are crowded with useless, self-destructive prats – people more interested in ego, control, and clout than in making anything grow from the roots. And when they do very rearly act, their “help” is often poison: it blocks, slows, and derails.
At the same time, the number of people doing truly useful, collective, grounded work feels small. You can see […]
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Looking at working with legacy media thinking – silo vs flow
Every so often I answer the out reach calls from more traditional alt/progressive media orgs, let’s look at some of the very illustrative “common sense” knock backs. The recent examples are Freedom’s reaction and Good Internet’s submission call – As their reaction is useful to illustrate the fault line of “radical publishing” in a federated media path.
Here’s a sketch of how it can (and arguably should) work if we’re serious about, #openweb, and soft-communing […]
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Looking at working with legacy media thinking – silo vs flow
Every so often I answer the out reach calls from more traditional alt/progressive media orgs, let’s look at some of the very illustrative “common sense” knock backs. The recent examples are Freedom’s reaction and Good Internet’s submission call – As their reaction is useful to illustrate the fault line of “radical publishing” in a federated media path.
Here’s a sketch of how it can (and arguably should) work if we’re serious about, #openweb, and soft-communing […]
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Activist tech has been stuck in a defensive crouch
For two decades, activist tech has been stuck in a defensive crouch. We’ve built bunkers (security tools, encryption layers, anonymity networks) but very few bridges. That’s left the field fragmented, insular, and often unattractive to the people we’re supposedly trying to empower.
If the aim is to push social change and challenge rather than just survive, here’s what I think needs building:
#4opens-native infrastructure Open data → not just sharing docs, but making activist […]
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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”. […]
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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”. […]
Did a bit of work on the https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Open-Media-Network/wiki/Jargon Will have a go at turning this into a sort story as an overview to the other 3 project stories.
read through and for geek problem there is even a link to a blog post from terence eden, which i even happen to know. Most other hash tags dont have any blog posts linked to give more depth and context.
For example #OMN says "building networks, not silos" and more - its listed 6 times. Maybe grouping them all would help, but again linked blog post for some more depth might be even better.
#OGB is linked 3 times, but also here a bit shallow maybe without links
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Activist tech has been stuck in a defensive crouch
For two decades, activist tech has been stuck in a defensive crouch. We’ve built bunkers (security tools, encryption layers, anonymity networks) but very few bridges. That’s left the field fragmented, insular, and often unattractive to the people we’re supposedly trying to empower.
If the aim is to push social change and challenge rather than just survive, here’s what I think needs building:
#4opens-native infrastructure Open data → not just sharing docs, but making activist […]
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A guide for staying honest and native
A community is only viable if enough people care enough to keep it relevant. In this era of #stupidindividualism, most people don’t lift a finger to make that happen.
This is the norm across many #4opens spaces: a near-total lack of interest in building or maintaining shared paths. It’s a textbook case of right-wing Tragedy of the Commons. Developers show up when it suits them, use the space for their narrow needs, then drift off without contributing to the upkeep. They treat community […]
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