@cascheranno

#FOSS is still one of the best evidence that cooperation beats competition. But if we don’t compost the blindness in the foundations - the idea that “neutral” tech can stay outside politics - we keep rebuilding the same power structures we thought we’d escaped.

The next step is not only defend FOSS from capitalism, but more to finish the argument: code freedom + social responsibility. That’s what projects like #OMN and #OGB are for.

#4opens #openweb #KISS

@cascheranno

The solution is not to abandon #FOSS, but to rebalance it. We need to compost the sterile individualism that crept in, nourish the soil with social values - trust, care, shared governance, and humility. The #OMN and #OGB projects try to do this by adding a democratic layer of governance to our infrastructure, bringing social accountability to technical openness.

Alt tech is the counter-proposal: it’s experiments with different social contracts.
It’s where people still build tools around trust, transparency, and autonomy, not profit. Projects like the #Fediverse, #OMN, #OGB, and other grassroots infrastructures are small, messy, and fragile, but they prove something crucial: We can communicate, collaborate, and create together without permission from the #nastyfew Silicon Valley oligarchs.

Alt tech is the counter-proposal: it’s experiments with different social contracts.
It’s where people still build tools around trust, transparency, and autonomy, not profit. Projects like the #Fediverse, #OMN, #OGB, and other grassroots infrastructures are small, messy, and fragile, but they prove something crucial: We can communicate, collaborate, and create together without permission from the #nastyfew Silicon Valley oligarchs.

History isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we make — or lose — together.

#OpenWeb #4Opens #OMN #OGB #IndymediaReboot

People need to care because this is the moment to step back into agency — to be part of history not as consumers or spectators, but as participants. The #OMN and #OGB frameworks give us the infrastructure to make that real.

The #OMN, #OGB, and the #indymediaback reboot aren’t nostalgia — they’re the next generation of the commons defending itself.

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/

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

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

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

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

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.

#KISS