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Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding

Building beyond the #deathcult - Our current model of #tech funding and developer agendas is not neutral. The way we fund technology shapes the kind of technology we build. For the last 20 years, the dominant tech culture has followed the same path: venture capital growth platform monopolies extraction of attention and data endless scaling short-term metrics private ownership of public infrastructure This has produced #techshit - technology built because it can make money, not because […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/rethinking-grassroots-tech-funding/

witchescauldron 1d ago

In the era of #climatechaos, people #blocking social change in tech are not just slowing things down - they are helping maintain systems that are driving social and ecological breakdown.

The question is - what do we build instead?

Different paths already exist. #4opens #openweb #OGB #indymediaback #OMN are examples of social tech trying to move away from the failures of #mainstreaming and towards more open, collective ways of organising.

The challenge is mediation: separating signal from noise, building alternatives, and creating space for change.

Take a moment. Think. Then act.

Don’t become part of the blockage. Thanks.

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hamish campbell 4d ago

@yodabytz why not reboot it with modern tech - would have been growing the #4opens data soup.

#fediverse #indymediaback

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 28

Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 27

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story) – #OMN (Open Media Network)

witchescauldron Apr 26

Based on the #OMN hashtag story: #indymediaback is a call to revive and rebuild the radical, grassroots, community-controlled media networks that flourished in the#Indymedia era - open, decentralised, and owned by the people publishing them - as a direct alternative to both the corporate #dotcons and the hollowed-out #NGO media landscape that replaced them.

https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=indymediaback

Search Results for “indymediaback” – #OMN (Open Media Network)

hamish campbell Apr 22

Keep group doing real things. (#praxis #indymediaback #buildstuff). Endless talk spaces breed toxicity. Shared work diffuses it. When people are:

publishing
fixing
organising
building

There’s less energy for backbiting, and more grounding in reality. Practice cuts through a lot of bullshit.

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 15

The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away

Three years ago I was trying to explain something simple in language liberals might actually hear. They talk about “platform capitalism.” Fine. But I’ve been calling it the #dotcons for 20 years - because that’s what it is - a con. The last 30 years of tech hasn’t just drifted into this mess. It’s been shaped, step by step, enclosure by enclosure, into systems designed to extract value from us. What we now call the internet is, in large part, a machine built to manipulate, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-mainstreaming-and-build-and-walk-away/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 8

Why you should help

The internet's public square is privatised, algorithmically controlled for "engagement" over any idea of truth, and placed under the control of a handful of American corporations with no accountability to European citizens or values. The #Fediverse is the most credible existing alternative - but it lacks the shared infrastructure to function as a native commons for news and media. #OMN builds that infrastructure: trust-based, community-controlled, transparent, reversible, and owned by nobody. […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-you-should-help/

Why you should help – #OMN (Open Media Network)

hamish campbell Mar 28

Interesting history I only half new https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2019/11/on-the-battle-of-seattle-s-20th-anniversary--let-s-remember-the- but it's missing the bike delivered live-streaming media centre that was set up for J18 in by undercurrents and other UK alt media groups for the huge protests here in London.

#indymediaback

On the Battle of Seattle's 20th anniversary, let's remember the Aussie coders who created live sharing

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