Am getting bored with people posting theory and academic articles at me. If academic knowledge worked in the real world we would live in very different ways – thus it is easy to show that most academic ideas are useless and IMPOSING them on the real world has a VERY bad history to it. Please…
The fedivers – We need to now not fight like we always do
Let’s look at tech politics for a moment, all technology is based on political and economic assumptions. The fedivers is born outa “stupid” anarchism There are a crew pushing for cooperative socialism The is the #mainstreaming of common-sense capitalism We have our athoratern side but it has little focus All of human history has been…
#indymediaback is a #openweb project of consensus based radical grassroots journalism
The #IMC project is an affinity group – so we are planing to work through consensus and diversity of strategy to move the project past where it was ripped apart by internal stresses after 10 years of running as a successfully worldwide radical grassroots media project. To do this we have a #nothingnew policy beyond…
If you look at contemporary programming
I don’t think our coders have ANY understanding of the damage they have done and are doing. The state is full of monsters. In closed the monsters can plot and destroy/divide and control because there is no way to make a judgment you cannot have social “truth” in closed. With open the monster are more…
The “cloud” is just a big corporate run data centre that can and will burn down
You do realize that all our data is HORRIBLY centralized and thus could vanish at any moment, come the revolution/evolution/ #climatechaos tsunamis. Our end plan in the #OMN is that all the content is redundantly stored in the network in a #KISS way, so traditional backup is less important -when it goes wrong, and it…
NTF and the #fahernistas are nutters of moldy variety
“So wait, when you buy an NFT, you don’t actually BUY the art, you just buy a receipt that you bought the art? And we’re burning the planet for THAT?“ The #encryptionist project is capitalism in the #openweb where it fits badly. They keep trying https://ethereum.org/en/nft/ as if the #deathcult was common sense, which it’s…
You can’t start a war if there is nothing to fight over
#indymedia was ripped apart by the war of open/closed Build open tools without HARD coded defaults – yes you can choose where the switches are flicked on the default install, but that is as much power that the dev team should take in #4opens dev “War, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it…
That would be a battle worth of a saga
Challenges the #fedivers faces and were next. The #twitter #bluesky thing comes from #blockchain crap – but don’t think it will end there – they will likely come up with a “new” standard that will #fashernista flash then promptly be forgotten. Would be interesting if they tried to colonize #activertypub we would see a wholesale…
Censorship on the fedivers is different to censorship on the #dotcons
A lot of people talk about censorship on the #fedivers without much understanding how this is different to censorship on the #dotcons The fedivers instances voluntary federate to other instances of the fedivers, its part of the open network that you can choose not to federate with some instances. This is not censorship as each…
Bluesky thinking of a “governance” body of the fedivers
“A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory” What exists already? The is a pretty sorted #ActivityPub crew, then some organizing sites/forums, the yearly conference. MOST importantly some “kings”, “princes” a bit of a tech/influencer aristocracy who currently hold much of the “power”. Where do we go from here? On online “governing…
As with most metaphors (and real life) the definition is not exact
* Fluffy – asking/pressuring for change though the system * Spiky – fucking shit up to enact change and directly and sometime ethically using “violence” to property – not to people. * Beyond spiky the is WAR where direct harm to people happens – that’s outside the metaphor. It’s interesting to take a few moments…
Doesn’t OMN need to fit into some economic relationships?
The big #fedivers is run in the voluntarist economic model of patron and donations to cover basic costs. The technical federation allows this to happen at a humane scale. This was how #indymedia was run for 10 years – not without stresses that we do need to mediate. at the #OMN we have seed funding…