People resist visible structure

This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures - because they feel natural, neutral and just “the way […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/

@blaine

Had a go at outlining how we got into this mess and a path out https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/

In the 1990's we built worlds not base on money and privilege (well it was much less in our faces). If you want to help bridge the current mess - its shovels we need - and backs flexing to compost the current mess.

#KISS

But we have this to mediate https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/

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/

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HARDTIMES

"We do everything and have all the features" leads to a monolith and all-or-nothing adoption (and thus lock-in). That's what Microsoft is doing and it is worrying that Nextcloud embraces this strategy.

"How working with multiple vendors is hurting your organization: The impact of vendor sprawl"

https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-working-with-multiple-vendors-is-hurting-your-organization-the-impact-of-vendor-sprawl/

#FeatureCreep #KISS #FOSS #Nextcloud

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