Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
The first steps were good. #Socialhub emerged as a genuinely grassroots space, shaped to maintain the integrity of the #activertypub native reboot. It grew directly out of the #activertypub affinity group itself – rooted in lived practice rather than imposed structure. So what motivated this native path? The current #openweb reboot wasn’t exactly planned – … Continue reading What happened over the last ten years on our Fediverse path
We have a real problem in Fediverse journalism: almost all linking flows upwards – to established sources and wannabe establishment voices, while there is a strong aversion to linking horizontally (to peers) or downwards (to smaller and emerging voices). This behaviour isn’t native to the #openweb. It’s inherited from mainstream media culture, where authority, visibility, … Continue reading News culture on the Fediverse
YOU can’t do social change or challenge without annoying people If you think you can, you’re probably play-acting – and part of the problem – does that annoy you? If it does… maybe sit with that. 🙂 Food for thought, #4opens is a shovel for composting. The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural … Continue reading The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb
Something that’s worth saying out loud: many of the people currently talking for the #Fediverse had very little to do with the generation that seeded this version. That doesn’t automatically make what they say wrong. But it does mean we should be careful about building strategy around their narratives. A lot of the early Fediverse … Continue reading A note on the current voices speaking for the #Fediverse
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
A few years ago, the liberation cats of the #Fediverse stopped talking to each other. Not only from malice, mostly through burnout, distraction, and quiet withdrawal. Nature abhors a vacuum and into that vacuum stepped the #NGO crew. They didn’t “win” our spaces through better ideas, didn’t persuade anyone. They simply occupied every role that … Continue reading Fediverse – What actually happened (no bullshit version)
A bunch of native #openweb people spent real time, energy, and focus pushing the #EU toward the #Fediverse. This wasn’t theoretical, it wasn’t speculative, it wasn’t a #NGO whitepaper or a #VC funding pitch. It was practical outreach, grounded in working technology and lived experience, aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on centralized corporate platforms. One … Continue reading Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell
It’s been going on for the last few years, let’s look at a current example. Live at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks … Continue reading LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
We are having a tech reboot for the last few years, federated seems to be where it’s at right now, and it makes sense, the #fediverse is flourishing where so many “#web3” or pure #p2p projects stumbled. This isn’t to say #p2p is bad. But for a peer-to-peer social network to actually work and be … Continue reading The Fediverse is native to the open web
The myth of the isolated individual is one of the core failures of the #dotcons era. Freedom and reason are not born from isolation but from living social ecosystems. The #openweb – and projects like #OMN – exist because communities build shared tools, shared trust, and shared meaning. Society is not a marketplace of disconnected … Continue reading Individualism vs Commons: Why the Fediverse matters, and the Indieweb is legacy
We dig, turn over the old soil, question assumptions, get honest about what’s working and what’s not. We plant, build in the open, share power, let go of fear, we grow. Not towards scaling up, but spreading out, resilient, diverse, interconnected. The Fediverse path could still be a true commons. But we need to build … Continue reading The Fediverse is social tech built by people
In this #openweb reboot, do you ever stop and wonder, really wonder, why most of the codebases outside #Mastodon are languishing? It’s not a technical issue. It’s not “a lack of funding” (though that’s what they love to talk about). It’s not even about network effects, not really. It’s because they’re all following Mastodon’s lead, … Continue reading Why Most Fediverse Codebases Are Languishing