The #encryptionist detour

Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/

The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the paths and people pushing us down paths we’re actually walking. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-mess-of-the-open-social-web/

To address the mess of #fashionista activism, we need for NGOs and advocacy that prioritize authenticity, long-term commitment, and meaningful engagement with the communities they are a part of https://hamishcampbell.com/the-problem-of-fashionistas-in-activism/

The Problem Was Never Just the Platforms – It’s What We Build Instead

For years, the #fashionista #openweb conversation has been stuck in a loop of naming villains: surveillance capitalism, the #dotcons, Zuckerberg, Musk, “the algorithm.” But focusing on enemies only gets you so far. The creative question isn’t what we’re against - it’s what we’re actually building together to replace it. That’s where the #OMN takes a useful path. Yes, the big platforms absorb resistance, repackage it, and sell it back to us, that cycle is real. But pointing it […]

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The Tech “Empiricism” Problem

A recent essay on deadSimpleTech makes a point the #openweb community should hear: the biggest problem in technology is not only the tools, it’s also the culture behind them. For years the tech world has operated under a form of narrow “tech empiricism”: the belief that if something produces results quickly, then it must be working well. In this mindset, success is measured by novelty, speed of production, and the ability to create something new. The heroes of this culture are […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tech-empiricism-problem/