The uncomfortable #OMN point - A lot of what gets called “common sense” in #mainstreaming politics is not actually solving the problems it talks about. It is just managing the symptoms while protecting the system that created them.

The #deathcult is the logic of endless extraction, growth and competition. When people defend the limits of liberal capitalism as the only possible path, they are not challenging the crisis - they are accepting the rules of the game.

This is not a fringe idea any more. The current heat waves help push the climate emergency and system failure into mainstream conversation.

The challenge now is moving from critique to building alternatives: commons, cooperation, open processes and systems that work for people and planet.

Spread the idea. Use the #hashtags. Build the alternatives.

#OMN #4opens #climatechaos #openweb #commons #deathcult

The challenge now is diversity, not picking one winner. I’d argue #Mastodon is drifting in the wrong direction - not because what it is doing is wrong, but because balance matters.

Mastodon has become very good at outreach into the #mainstreaming world. That is useful, and it is a valid path. The problem is when one path becomes the whole #Fediverse.

The #openweb was never meant to be one codebase, one culture, one governance model. It grows through diversity of value.

The issue is that Mastodon is now carrying more #NGO thinking, more institutional habits, and more mainstream assumptions. That doesn’t make it bad - but it does mean it is less healthy as the only “native” path.

The answer is not attacking Mastodon. The answer is growing the wider ecosystem: more codebases, more diversity, more grassroots governance, more messy creativity.

A healthy Fediverse needs many roots, not one trunk.

#OMN #4opens #Fediverse #openweb #indymediaback #OGB

#FOSS governance is digital #feudalism - coders as gatekeepers, projects organised around personal authority.

The lesson from history is simple, never trust a king, even a well-meaning one.

The #meta problem is that we keep repeating old power patterns inside new technology. The libertarian “just fork it” answer feels increasingly pointless in this stage of the mess. We need better collective governance, not just more individual exit routes.

#OGB #OMN #indymediaback #4opens #openweb

Good to use the hashtag #climatechaos because this is what we are living through.

Not just “climate change” as a technical issue, but a social, ecological and political crisis.

The challenge is not only reducing emissions - it is rebuilding the ways we organise, share knowledge and act together while the #deathcult systems keep failing.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #climatechaos

The advertising model, the platform logic and the attention economy are now getting harder to ignore. A media system that looks like a shopping catalogue with occasional content attached.

The #openweb lesson is that information needs independence from extraction. When every space becomes a marketplace, we lose the ability to build shared culture.

#OMN #4opens

Let's be clear on the background mess, before the personal attacks start, this is not about individuals. It is about patterns, systems and ideas.

The danger is that criticism becomes an #adHominem argument - “you just dislike this because…” - instead of looking at the actual structures being discussed.

The point I am making is that parts of dead #postmodern thinking have ended up fitting inside #neoliberal culture: fragmentation, individual identity, endless discourse and difficulty building any shared collective action.

That does not mean every idea, person or piece of work in those spaces is the same. It means we need to look at how ideas interact with power.

The question is - What helps us build collective capacity in a time of #climatechaos, inequality and the #dotcons mess?

What creates commons? What creates shared action? This is the conversation.

#OMN #openweb #4opens

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The issue here is what happens when common sense becomes blind and starts #blocking everything else.

In the #openweb sense, we need multiple ways of knowing - material, cultural, historical, lived - all in conversation with each other.

When knowledge becomes narrow or isolated, it turns into noise. When it connects back to lived reality, it becomes signal again. So the real split is not “who is right”

* theory without action becomes abstraction

* action without reflection becomes repetition

The #OMN problem is how we build shared spaces where these different paths of understanding can meet, argue, and adjust each other - without collapsing into #stupidindividualism and thus institutional gatekeeping.

That’s the work - collective intelligence, not intellectual silos.

#4opens #openweb #commons

Our media, chattering classes and the hard shift to the right has "forgotten" about this. I wrote this 5 years ago -

We need to be honest about the scale of #climatechaos.

We are already around a world heading towards dangerous warming, and current inaction points towards a much worse future. A projected 4°C world is not an abstract number - it means mass displacement, ecological collapse and millions of lives disrupted.

At that scale, continuing as if nothing fundamental needs to change starts to look like a #deathcult.

Respect to the #XR crew for pushing this into public conversation. Sometimes academic and institutional thinking becomes too inward-looking, too focused on debate and frameworks, while the reality outside is already moving.

The social question is obvious - What is not social about millions of people losing homes? What is not political about billions of people being affected?

Yes, we need to understand the class dimension - who caused the crisis, who profits, who pays the cost.

But we also need action, connection and collective thinking. The #openweb lesson applies here too: knowledge only matters when it connects with people and helps build change.

#climatejustice #OMN #4opens

I wrote this 5 years ago before the #Fediverse took off.

We have a class problem that needs attention. A large part of the privileged (empowered) world has spent the last 10+ years posting memes, outrage and identity signals on #failbook - helping build #dotcons into incredibly powerful systems of social control.

This is uncomfortable, but we need to be honest about it. The problem is not just “them” - it is also the participation of people who had the resources, education and influence to build something different but instead fed the systems that now shape public culture.

A class with power has a responsibility to look at how that power is used. The #openweb alternative is not more outrage inside closed platforms. It is rebuilding spaces based on participation, trust, transparency and shared ownership.

We need to look at ourselves and act.

Urgently.

#OMN #4opens #openweb