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We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
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YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
Over the last ten years, we’ve all been spending more and more time on #YouTube. And maybe you’ve noticed something strange: many of the channels you once thought of as independent are no longer independent at all. They’ve been quietly bought up by private equity firms with billions in backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone - the usual #mainstreaming priests of the #deathcult.
Channels like Task & Purpose, Vice, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, […]
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YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
Over the last ten years, we’ve all been spending more and more time on #YouTube. And maybe you’ve noticed something strange: many of the channels you once thought of as independent are no longer independent at all. They’ve been quietly bought up by private equity firms with billions in backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone - the usual #mainstreaming priests of the #deathcult.
Channels like Task & Purpose, Vice, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, […]
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Talking about grassroots media as a step away from the current #techshit
Hamish Campbell on the #openweb and rebooting indymedia
Hamish Campbell, a veteran of radical media for more than 30 years, argues that mainstream technology and culture are failing us. The rise of the #dotcon platforms has commodified our lives: closed silos like #Facebook and #Instagram harvest our attention and data, locking us into systems that serve profit, not people.
Attempts to build alternatives around an #encryptionist agenda have gone nowhere. As a result, the tech giants […]
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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”. […]
It's good to see people focusing on the #openweb, we have had a signal-to-noise issue from our #fashionistas for the last 5 years of the reboot, its pastime to focuses on issues internally and externally. As we have more direct power over internal mess than we do over the external #dotcons I am focusing activism on composting the internal #blockinghttps://hamishcampbell.com/?s=compost yep, we need to balance this with pushing back the #dotcons and there #closedweb "common sense". We have piles of #techshit to compost...
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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”. […]
If you read just one thing today, make sure it's this: "Google is killing the open web" a brilliantly written and researched piece by @oblomov that will get you riled up and eager to defend the #OpenWeb against the incessant attacks by #BigTech:
🔗: https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/
#LongRead #resist
It's good to see people focusing on the #openweb, we have had a signal-to-noise issue from our #fashionistas for the last 5 years of the reboot, its pastime to focuses on issues internally and externally. As we have more direct power over internal mess than we do over the external #dotcons I am focusing activism on composting the internal #blockinghttps://hamishcampbell.com/?s=compost yep, we need to balance this with pushing back the #dotcons and there #closedweb "common sense". We have piles of #techshit to compost...
Enclosure of the #openwebhttps://hamishcampbell.com/enclosure-of-the-openweb/ Let’s stop being polite about this. The #closedweb is a crime scene. The platforms we rely on are bonfires of common culture, feeding the engines of the next wave of control.
Enclosure of the #openwebhttps://hamishcampbell.com/enclosure-of-the-openweb/ Let’s stop being polite about this. The #closedweb is a crime scene. The platforms we rely on are bonfires of common culture, feeding the engines of the next wave of control.
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The hashtag story shows the current state of the world
The hashtag story on this site is a way of using different hashtags to paint a picture of the current state of the world and the paths that can be taken to address the issues at hand. It involves defining each hashtag and how it relates to the larger narrative. Here is an example of a hashtag story:
#fashernista is about consumer capitalism and the negative impact it has on society, treating it as a social illness.
#dotcons are feeding this social illness by promoting constant consumption […]
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Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges
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Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse 8
A paper on the Fediverse by Thomas Struett, American University – School of Communication, Aram Sinnreich, American University – School of Communication, Patricia Aufderheide, American University – School of Communication, Rob Gehl, York University.
Interesting #mainstreaming look, that bypasses the grassroots it’s actually talking about, this is a common issue with academic writing, am at Oxford this […]
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