#dotcons
Feudalism, #FOSS native governance? https://hamishcampbell.com/is-feudalism-native-foss-governance/ This is not even touching on the mess in the #mainstreaming #dotcons our fashionistas focus on, which is a powerful eco of this “native” #FOSS problem.
As we navigate the digital world around us, it helps to remain curious and question the narratives our “common sense” paths serve, if we are to push change, challenge we need to recognize the responsibility that comes with the digital power. #dotcons push consumerism as propaganda https://hamishcampbell.com/dotcons-sell-us-consumerism-as-propaganda/
As we navigate the digital world around us, it helps to remain curious and question the narratives our “common sense” paths serve, if we are to push change, challenge we need to recognize the responsibility that comes with the digital power. #dotcons push consumerism as propaganda https://hamishcampbell.com/dotcons-sell-us-consumerism-as-propaganda/
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The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
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At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet.
That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it.
We’ve […]
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At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet.
That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it.
We’ve […]
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The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
Feudalism, #FOSS native governance? https://hamishcampbell.com/is-feudalism-native-foss-governance/ This is not even touching on the mess in the #mainstreaming #dotcons our fashionistas focus on, which is a powerful eco of this “native” #FOSS problem.
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Change is Freedom, Change is Life
A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.
Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]
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Change is Freedom, Change is Life
A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.
Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]
The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.
Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.
The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.
Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.
We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.
It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.
Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.
The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.
Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.
We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.
It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
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How fascism actually works
How can we get people to see that #Fascism isn’t only about goose-stepping soldiers or dictators shouting from balconies - that’s the cartoon version. The current danger sits much closer to home. Fascism is the extreme end of a spectrum that runs right through our everyday lives: hierarchy, obedience, control, and fear dressed up as “common sense.”
It’s an old story of the #nastyfew controlling the many through managed fear. A dictator doesn’t rise from nowhere, they’re made […]
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How fascism actually works
How can we get people to see that #Fascism isn’t only about goose-stepping soldiers or dictators shouting from balconies - that’s the cartoon version. The current danger sits much closer to home. Fascism is the extreme end of a spectrum that runs right through our everyday lives: hierarchy, obedience, control, and fear dressed up as “common sense.”
It’s an old story of the #nastyfew controlling the many through managed fear. A dictator doesn’t rise from nowhere, they’re made […]
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How fascism actually works
How can we get people to see that #Fascism isn’t only about goose-stepping soldiers or dictators shouting from balconies - that’s the cartoon version. The current danger sits much closer to home. Fascism is the extreme end of a spectrum that runs right through our everyday lives: hierarchy, obedience, control, and fear dressed up as “common sense.”
It’s an old story of the #nastyfew controlling the many through managed fear. A dictator doesn’t rise from nowhere, they’re made […]
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Freedom is not mine or yours. It’s ours, or it isn’t freedom at all
The illusion of modern society is that freedom is only individualistic, when our freedom is in truth interconnected with the well-being of everyone. This is one of the central pushes of the #deathcult - the mess of #neoliberalism we still live and work inside. It tells us that we are free as consumers, that choice equals' liberation, and that personal success is the highest form of virtue.
But this is a hollow freedom. What kind of liberty exists when every interaction is transactional, […]
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Freedom is not mine or yours. It’s ours, or it isn’t freedom at all
The illusion of modern society is that freedom is only individualistic, when our freedom is in truth interconnected with the well-being of everyone. This is one of the central pushes of the #deathcult - the mess of #neoliberalism we still live and work inside. It tells us that we are free as consumers, that choice equals' liberation, and that personal success is the highest form of virtue.
But this is a hollow freedom. What kind of liberty exists when every interaction is transactional, […]
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Rebuilding Grassroots Media – Back to the Soil
From my point of view, it needs to start from the raw truth: There is currently no functioning grassroots media. Not in any coherent sense. Before we talk about video, storytelling and digital tools, we have to answer the most basic question, one that most people have forgotten to ask: What is grassroots media?
It’s not “content creation.”It’s not “influencer culture.”It’s not another #NGO-funded project selling “voices from below” to tick a box for a funder’s annual […]
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