hamish campbellPost on composting the #dotcons mess https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.
witchescauldronThe for-profit platforms, underpinned by neoliberal ideology, drives much of the dysfunction we see - both in society and within tech itself. Life “inside the #dotcons” means participating, often uncritically, in reinforcing #stupidindividualism. Moving beyond this requires building alternatives grounded in the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards, and open processes. Projects like #OMN point in this direction.
#reboot is the necessary reset of the #openweb - stepping away from the dead ends of #techshit and #dotcons to rebuild digital infrastructure on human-centred, trust-based foundations, using tools like #activitypub and the #fediverse, guided by the #4opens.
In the #OMN hashtag story, #Oxford functions as a grounded local instance of normal tensions - a city that embodies the contradiction between elitist institutional power (#mainstreaming, #NGO culture, #deathcult economics) and genuine grassroots community, used as a real-world grounded path for #openweb organising and the #4opens approach.
#OMN (Open Media Network) is a grassroots project to build human-centred, trust-based digital infrastructure on the #openweb - putting community need and collective governance ahead of technical complexity, commercial interest, and the centralised control of the #dotcons. It treats technology as a tool for social change rather than an end in itself, grounded in the #4opens (open code, open data, open standards, open process) and the principle that networks should be controlled and shaped by the people who use them.
On the #OMN path, the #fediverse is the practical #reboot infrastructure of the #openweb - a decentralised network of interconnected, community-controlled networks built on #4opens standards like #activitypub, where no corporation owns the pipes, and where people and media flow across different instances.
Pull conflict into shared space (#openprocess #4opens #trustflows)
Poison thrives in private channels, so you gently but consistently move things:
from DMs → into group threads
from whispers → into meetings
from vague → into specific
This doesn’t eliminate conflict, it grounds it. Sunlight doesn’t solve everything, but it stops the worst rot.
@evan digital sovereignty is a made up meaningless term in this case - of a liberal idea of a fear based economy.
The #openweb is at its base trust and standards based #4opens so we don't deal with that mess at all #KISS
Kinda keep thinking people need to say this more clearly.
https://hamishcampbell.com/we-keep-making-mess-then-wondering-why-everything-smells/
LibreComms.Open-Media-Network
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Open-Media-Network
> This is the space to talk about the Gita and the wider #OMN projects. The #4opens are a kinda of constitution that keeps the “post truth world” at bay. As long as you keep the #4opens in place and respect the diversity they hold in place.
