Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
I would start to say, with care, that #Mastodon is now heading in the wrong direction. Not because it’s inherently bad, or malicious, or “captured” in some conspiratorial sense. But because it’s become too dominant, tipping the scales far away from the diversity and messiness that a healthy #Fediverse needs. This isn’t about blame, it’s … Continue reading The problem of too big, Mastodon
The #4opens are a simple way to judge the value of an “alt/grassroots” tech project. You can get your data out with RSS and AP and vie user export, so TICK It has a #FOSS licence TICK Here it’s problematic, it supports atom/RSS good, but is AP support is pushing broken HALF TICK It uses … Continue reading Is Mastodon a #4opens project
For people who focus on working with the #dotcons there are meany traps, and a lot of dead-ends. This is less of an issue for people fighting them, the problem here is “common sense” #blocking this second useful path, which is a much less lucrative and a thank less task. So we will continue to … Continue reading Mastodon, Meta and Threads
Let’s look at this “#branding” issue. The tech world is changing as there is a #reboot of the #openweb happening, yes a lot of people don’t see this, so worth talking about a bit. If you are interested in this subject, every day you likely hear another big player joining the #fediverse. What does that … Continue reading Talking #openweb or #Fediverse, I have to talk about #Mastodon
A #closedweb Critique The Critique From an #openweb and #4opens perspective, the critique highlights a different mindset that is clearly incompatible with the current path. But yes, there are questions about the balance between openness and security. Let’s not get lost in the #geekproblem and look at them: Design for Abuse Critique: The assertion that … Continue reading ActivityPub and Mastodon from a #closedweb prospective
Q. Why is Mastodon so dominant in the fediverse? A. It had better #UX and @Gargron running it was an effective communicator at #KISS and built it out as a #4opens project alongside a healthy (white) lie about security and privacy. The rest of the projects lacked these things – #Pleroma the obverse compaine was … Continue reading Why is Mastodon so dominant in the fediverse?
Published Date 9/25/17 5:49 PM https://mastodon.social/ Open data – YES Can I save my data? Yes, some of it! It‘s under Preferences->Data export Open source – YES GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007 Open “industrial” standards – YES We are using the OStatus suite of protocols: Webfinger for user-on-domain lookup Atom … Continue reading Lets look at some open projects from the perspective of the 4opens Mastodon
For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer – Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make … Continue reading OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons
Human behaviour does not stay the same as groups grow. The instincts that helped small tribes survive – loyalty, signalling belonging, defending boundaries, competing for status, consolidating influence – functioned well within natural limits. In small groups, feedback was immediate. Consequences were visible. Power was constrained by proximity and material reality. But when those same … Continue reading Scale changes everything
DRAFT Scale changes everything as human behaviour does not stay the same as groups scale. The instincts that helped small tribes survive – loyalty, signalling belonging, defending boundaries, competing for status, consolidating influence – functioned well within natural limits. In small groups, feedback was immediate. Consequences were visible. Power was constrained by proximity and material … Continue reading The tension that’s pushed back into the fediverse the last few years
Treating the Fediverse as #stupidindividualism is a kind of blindness, yes, individuals matter, but the #Fediverse only works because of shared culture, shared norms, and collective responsibility. Without this social layer, federation becomes fragmentation – lots of voices, but little shared direction to hold together. Since the #twittermigration of a few years ago, many of … Continue reading The #twittermigration, signal vs noise, for rebuilding #openweb culture
Everywhere we look – what we see, touch, and use – we are living inside systems shaped by decades of economic and technological assumptions. This isn’t only something happening “out there”. It has been normalised and internalised over the last forty years. The dominance of #stupidindividualism, combined with rigid economic dogma, influenced how we design … Continue reading Yes, its messy stepping out of the churn