Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children the #dotcons

Criticisms of capitalism: * Income inequality: Capitalism leads to greater income inequality, as those who own capital and assets are able to accumulate wealth at a faster rate than those who rely on wages. * Exploitation: Capitalism results in the exploitation of workers, who are paid low wages, work in poor conditions, and have limited … Continue reading Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children the #dotcons

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 … Continue reading Censorship on the fedivers is different to censorship on the #dotcons

Why move away from both the #dotcons and the #encryptionists now?

Lets look at trust/community building as this is what the OMN is about after 20 years of failed tech “solutions”. * Link – am interested in there content flow for my community. * Trust – i have a relationship with them, no questions. * Moderate – we are building a relationship. * Whoops – rollback … Continue reading Why move away from both the #dotcons and the #encryptionists now?

What did you do in the #dotcons during the climatechoas breakdown

Q. So are you gonna say what you’ve done? I don’t think posting on fb has any affect on the dotcons? The opposite in fact A. Yep it dose, am doing a stepaway project, a group of us run 5 #openweb servers with a search engine, social network, video hosting, and tools development site/openweb organizing.  … Continue reading What did you do in the #dotcons during the climatechoas breakdown

Lets look at one of the new semi open #dotcons – brave.com

https://brave.com The #4opens: Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work. * hard to say, I think all the limited user data it collects will be sold for profit, it’s the business … Continue reading Lets look at one of the new semi open #dotcons – brave.com

The #dotcons put shiny on there poison pill and we swallowed a heap

Q. but then facebook fucked it all up http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm A. Yes, well we kinda fucked it up before #failbook came along. The #ossification of #indymedia network from my memory comes to mind. Tecnolagy as individualism over tecnolagy as social, the blogging revolution and years of pointless #encryptionists projects are good examples. Then the #dotcons puts … Continue reading The #dotcons put shiny on there poison pill and we swallowed a heap