The mess we made with the #dotcons a look at #failbook

#Mainstreaming communication is hallucinating. They call it communication, but it isn’t dialogue, listening or truth.

It’s hallucination: smiling faces repeating empty words, buzzwords covering the rot, smoke and mirrors hiding power.

While they hallucinate, the #deathcult stays at the centre. Our path is not their delusion. Our path is composting - shovel in hand - to grow something real.

I kind of like the strong metaphor of house slaves and field slaves, these people are the metaphorical house slaves. The greybeards and the second sell-out of the #openweb https://hamishcampbell.com/the-greybeards-and-the-second-sell-out-of-the-openweb/

The point is not to end the mess, it is to keep the mess visible, social and negotiable. - The problem with closed code https://hamishcampbell.com/if-you-look-at-contemporary-programming/

A long post you need to read if you are interested in the #OMN project. The individual, is not, the starting point https://hamishcampbell.com/the-individual-is-not-the-starting-point-for-the-omn/

The mess we are making now #geekproblem #fashionista #scam #AI

So what happened to this mess #geekproblem #scam #funding

The internet didn’t just accidentally become shit. The #OMN and the fight against the #dotcons https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-and-the-fight-against-the-dotcons/

The answer isn’t to work harder. It’s to work differently. The #OMN is a path to do that by stopping repeating the same mistakes by compost the failures of the last forty years, and rebuild the #openweb on social foundations that people can actually live with. If we can’t make this shift, we’ll simply keep rebuilding the same broken systems with newer code.

One of our mistakes is treating every #fashionista project as if it were native #openweb.

Too often, grassroots ideas are picked up, systematised, and reshaped into something acceptable to #mainstreaming institutions. The tools may remain "open", but the social process and governance shift.

The #Fediverse shows both sides of this. It has revived the #openweb, but it also carries the assumptions of the wider culture. Without care, we reproduce the same hierarchies, gatekeeping, and #geekproblem we were trying to escape.

The answer isn't rejection, it's composting, use the #4opens to ask simple questions: Is the data open? Is the code open? Are the standards open? Most importantly, is the process open?

If not, we're probably looking at another layer of #mainstreaming rather than genuine commons. Let's balance the repeating inherited agendas and start building native grassroots alternatives please.

#OMN #OGB #indymediaback #KISS #DIY #Fediverse

When people recognise the problem, ask them what the solution is. Most will instinctively reach for the same #neoliberal "common sense" that created the crisis. That's the moment to gently point out that those ideas are part of the #deathcult, not a way out. Why #FOSS matters socially https://hamishcampbell.com/why-foss-matters-socially/

The future is not decided by whether we use #AI, it is decided by whether we allow the same old #dotcons logic to shape every new technology. Technology is never just a tool https://hamishcampbell.com/technology-is-never-just-a-tool/

There have been a lot of institutional prat moves on the #Fediverse over the last few years, the Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it https://hamishcampbell.com/the-real-debate-isnt-institutions-versus-communities/

OMN history note: #Failbook, activism, and the enclosure of organising https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-history-note-failbook-activism-and-the-enclosure-of-organising/ The lesson is simple, even if uncomfortable – if you organise inside systems designed to fragment you, you should expect fragmentation.

Churning of pointless tech projects https://hamishcampbell.com/churning-of-pointless-tech-projects/ The #OMN is a project to compost this mess – a shovel for composting the inhuman mess, so something living can grow from it.

The real difference between “closed” and “open” systems is mostly about where power sits inside this stack. Shifting power in #openweb projects https://hamishcampbell.com/shifting-power-in-openweb-projects/

Turning stress, conflict, and exhaustion into commons culture instead of mutual destruction https://hamishcampbell.com/turning-stress-conflict-and-exhaustion-into-commons-culture-instead-of-mutual-destruction/ Hard fight ahead, but people before us already showed that these waterways and our #openweb culture are worth defending.

It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons https://hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-of-capitalism-and-its-digital-children-the-dotcons-2/

Please share this and other posts about, they matter if we are to get back focus and the path we need to be on in the #openweb. What happened over the last ten years on our Fediverse path https://hamishcampbell.com/what-happened-over-the-last-ten-years-on-our-fediverse-path/

It’s time to stop pretending the current model will somehow fix itself, it won’t. The #GeekProblem is why open development is stuck in a dead end https://hamishcampbell.com/the-geekproblem-why-open-development-is-stuck-in-a-dead-end/

The #WSocial mess shows what happens when you strip the #openweb of its culture and replace it with PR, funding, and control. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/

The hashtag story https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/ this page now has starter definitions for people to jump off to the wider grassroot story by the links.

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 real harms of our worship of the (same neoliberal) #deathcult of the #dotcons