Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
This has been going on for more than ten years, I have been at the heart of this movement, at many of the steps, I meet defeatism and negativity. It’s frustrating, especially now, when the mainstream is visibly stepping away from the #dotcons and looking for a place to land. We should be building that … Continue reading The #fashionistas poisoned the well of alt-media
This post is about controlling the narrative, not letting the #nastyfew dictate the terms of engagement. Too often, we let them set the agenda, reacting to their every word instead of actively building the alternatives we need. Their power isn’t just in what they do, it’s in how much space they take up in our … Continue reading #Fashionistas in Activism: How Buzzword Chasing Undermines Real Change
This is a hard issue for the people who create the problem to see the problem. #Fashionistas chase status and spectacle over substance, co-opting real radical movements for aesthetics. They turn collective struggles into performative gestures, feeding the waste flow of #mainstreaming cycle. This poisons the roots of change, turning compost into toxic waste, energy … Continue reading Why are our #fashionistas so poisonous?
Trying to make the #fashionistas functional in an #openweb reboot is much harder than it needs to be. But still, we do need to harness their strengths by working to redirecting focus towards #KISS sustainable and meaningful outcomes. How can we do this? Ideas? Clarify Objectives, is a start, with straightforward and compelling stories that … Continue reading What can we do with our fashionistas?
The problem of #fashionistas in activism is the pushing of style and appearance over substance and meaningful action. These people are concerned with projecting a limited image or brand of activism, rather than engaging in the actual, messy effect of social change. This poses challenges to the efficacy and integrity of real grassroots movements: Mediating … Continue reading Why worry about fashionistas in activism
The hashtag #fashionistas” describes individuals and groups who adopt trends or mainstreaming ideologies in activism, for the sake of appearance to align themselves with what is currently popular or socially acceptable. In the realm of activism, this to often pushes the behaviour of #NGOs and advocacy organizations that prioritize “chasing the buzzword” over any meaningful … Continue reading The problem of fashionistas in activism
A. Start a outreach stepaway from the #dotcons project and watch the old crap crubbale when you glance back. Be a part of a soughted #fashernistas movement to create social change #OMN Q. You have been saying this over and over for the last few years and railing against the mysterious #fashernistas. And what plan … Continue reading A question for fashionistas is drinking piss healthy?
The crisis of the #openweb isn’t just coming from the #dotcons. It’s also coming from us. Our #mainstreaming #fashionistas are dangerously consumptive, forever chasing the next platform, the next funding round, the next shiny self abstraction. Meanwhile, our alternative #fashionistas mirror exactly the same behaviour, endlessly reinventing tools that never escape their own echo chambers. … Continue reading Make the #4opens fashionable
People often ask which messaging platform they should use. Matrix? XMPP? Signal? Something else? The honest answer is there is no perfect option. At the #OMN we’ve tried running #XMPP servers for years. From a #4opens prospective it’s probably the strongest foundation. Socially, though, it’s still trapped by the #geekproblem, despite years of outreach, we … Continue reading Online Chat is a social problem, not just a technical one
The biggest question is not whether #AI becomes useful. It is who shapes the surrounding paths? A future controlled by a few #dotcons will reproduce the same mess we have now of centralisation, extraction, enclosure. Were a future built through #4opens paths would look different. The #geekproblem is believing the next tool solves the old … Continue reading Beyond AI
This is a mess we are finally starting to move away from. For over a decade, #failbook was one of the main organising spaces for progressive activism. On the surface it looked useful: easy groups, fast sharing, broad reach. But structurally it was never neutral. It was built as a #dotcons attention machine, optimised for … Continue reading OMN history note: Failbook, activism, and the enclosure of organising
The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple – Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just … Continue reading Compost “digital sovereignty”, build working commons