Mastodawn

This message is a shovel

Ten years ago - and honestly long before that - there were endless conversations on #failbook about how useful it was for campaigning. The dominant view back then was simple: it’s just cat memes, it's just tooling, it isn’t political so we can use it harmlessly. Before Snowden, this wasn’t a fringe view - it was probably a 90% consensus, especially among activists, and #fashionista tech communities. I’m not pointing fingers here, as this was normal. Many of us - including friends and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/this-message-is-a-spade/

deutrino Jan 18

#failbook

#OMN (Open Media Network)Aug 1, 2019

Not much is radical

Putting content into #dotcons creates a feedback loop with diminishing returns. The impact is marginal - and shrinking - because all you are really doing is training #failbook’s algorithms to better sell you, and everyone who interacts with your content, more “stuff.” This includes not just products, but ideology: the subtle shaping of thought, behaviour, and community through algorithmic social control. It’s very easy to get pulled into a #flamewar on #failbook, because conflict […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/not-much-is-radical/

Not much is radical – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jul 24, 2025

The Open Media Network: More Than Just a Tech Project

At first glance, the #OMN (Open Media Network) might look like another stalled technical project, a collection of code, standards, and protocols. But to think of it only this way is to miss the point entirely. What we’re building is a social and technological fabric for the #openweb, woven together by shared values and practical needs. Yes, there’s tech, but the tools and standards we develop are not neutral. They lean, by design, toward openness, transparency, collaboration, and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-open-media-network-more-than-just-a-tech-project/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jul 24, 2025

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/

The #Hashtags Tell a Story: Building Trust in a Messy World – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jul 24, 2025

The Spring OMN: The River of News Project

Originally Published 3/15/2016 — Updated 07/2025

“A river that needs crossing: political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance; on the geek side, there is naivety and over-complexity.”

This project builds from a simple truth: we’re failing to communicate across divides that matter, and the #openweb continues to decline in the face of #dotcons like Meta (#failbook), Google, Amazon, and Apple.The inspiration, the technical model draws from Dave […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-spring-omn-the-river-of-news-project-2/

The Spring OMN: The River of News Project – Hamish Campbell

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jul 20, 2025

Everything we build sits on standards

An example of the #geekproblem is the refusal, or failure, to engage seriously with standards. In tech, as in life, nothing exists in isolation. Every app, every protocol, every line of code rests on a foundation of inherited agreements: protocols, languages, schemas, and governance systems. These are the invisible scaffolding of the digital world, we call them standards, and whether people like it or not, everything you’re building is already part of an industrial web of standards.

Now, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/everything-we-build-sits-on-standards/

Everything we build sits on standards – Hamish Campbell

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jul 2, 2025

What Is Journalism in a Community Space?

Ten years ago, I posted photos of a police raid on a boat in Mile End Park to a local Facebook group. What followed was a storm of critique from fellow community members, particularly around privacy, ethics, and the nature of local news. That exchange came back through the memory algorithm on #failbook, it’s interesting because it sits at the heart of a question we keep coming back to. What is journalism, and where does it belong? The debate wasn’t just about a photo or a post. It was […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-is-journalism-in-a-community-space/

CyanSky14 May 19, 2025

No hacen caso y todos quieren seguir ahi.

Ultimamente caralibro o failbook o boomerbook como lo quiera llamar, estan suspendiendo cuentas masivamente, por los motivos mas turbios y falsos (BEEP) infantil a miles de cuentas sin motivo alguno.

Siempre les voy a sugerir el fediverso, pero al final prefieren seguir ahi.

La IA detecta reportes erroneos, nada de solucion tecnica humana. Un deastre.

#Baneo #Facebook #Suspension #Failbook

deutrino Apr 29, 2025

I'm trying to tolerate #failbook again and aggressively hid like 30 politics posts my first time back, and now I can tell all my friends posted nothing but politics since then because fb is showing me nothing but posts from the art pages I follow, along with hilariously mistargeted ads (apparently it thinks I live in North Dakota)