Thinking of workshops to run at “Nodes On A Web” #NOAW unconference

https://hamishcampbell.com/thinking-of-workshops-to-run-at-nodes-on-a-web-noaw-unconference/

Talking about grassroots media as a step away from the current #techshit

https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-grassroots-media-as-a-step-away-from-the-current-techshit/

The #Hashtags Tell a Story: Building Trust in a Messy World

We live in a time of crisis. Climate, community, communication, all are breaking down. Our tools and platforms no longer serve us. To make sense of this, we need to tell stories. And in the digital world, hashtags are one of the most powerful ways we do this. But our hashtags don’t just tag, they trace the roots of our problems, and signpost paths out. Each one is a seed. Together, they are a map.#dotcons – From #openweb to walled gardens. Once, the internet was a place of openness, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-hashtags-tell-a-story-building-trust-in-a-messy-world/

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

https://companydata.tsujigawa.com/press-20250317-002/

PUMPMAN株式会社（本社：東京都あきる野市、代表取締役：小澤辰矢）が開発した透水性コンクリート「Dotcon（ドットコン）」が、インドネシア共和国においてその高い性能が評価され、国内の住宅地で試験採用されることが決定しました。

■プレスリリース配信元-PUMP MAN株式会社
https://companydata.tsujigawa.com/company/9013101006518/

#ドットコン #Dotcon #コンクリート #プレスリリース #PressRelease #企業情報

The 4 opens

Published Date 10/19/15 9:38 PM

The #dotcon can not be fixed, the #fashernistas who keep flocking to new “ethical’ish” ones are a problem not a solution.

The #4opens:

Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project.

Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work.

Open source – as in “free software” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software this keeps development healthy by increasing interconnectedness and bringing in serendipity. The Open licences are the “lock” that keep the first two in place, what we have ain’t perfect but they do expand the area of “trust” that a project needs to work, creative commons is a start here.

Open “industrial” standards – this is a little understand but core open, its what the open internet and WWW are built from. Here is an outline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard

Open process – this is the most “nebulous” part, examples of the work flow would be wikis and activity streams. Projects are built on linking trust networks so open process is the “glue” that binds the links together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process

Slow-boil threats to #Fediverse.

One attack seems to involve random people spinning up instances they can't maintain and then they put them on #CAGEMAFIA-servers with reasoning like they can't afford the money to setup things properly, they are under attack, they are ill etc.

Then there are influencer-type accounts, and once they have a lot of followers they simply move them, with their followers to a #dotCon server.

These could legitimately be called #DotConCatFishing.