Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world

Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world … Continue reading Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world

Lets look at some dotcons from the perspective of the 4opens Facebook

Published Date 9/25/17 5:03 PM https://facebook.com/ Open data – A small YES and many many NO’s the is a obscured link were you can download a lot of data that facebook holds about you it’s a SMALL YES. But all the interlinking and meta data that is used is hidden and for sale to the … Continue reading Lets look at some dotcons from the perspective of the 4opens Facebook

Trump was chosen and elected by this internet web and more will grow from the dotcons

Published Date 12/15/16 5:05 PM draft The internet has “grown” mind/s of its own. This is a convoluted sketch outline of a core tech/social issue. in the #dotcons Neo Liberalism “free trade” is baked into our dominant online infrastructure, in this it flows freely though society perverting and sickening as it touches. Everything the #dotcons … Continue reading Trump was chosen and elected by this internet web and more will grow from the dotcons

Composting the confusion: A critical response to the misreading of the #Openweb

Let’s be clear: this is a historical and political mess, and one worth composting. The original #openweb vision, was wide, from the original European social vs the American libertarian, the person quoted is talking his view from inside the #blinded USA path rather than the original #WWW #mainstreaming of the more social European path. The … Continue reading Composting the confusion: A critical response to the misreading of the #Openweb

Affective Protest vs. Effective Power: From Spectacle to Strategy

What can we learn from the current mess. The protests didn’t fail because people didn’t care. They failed because the system is not built to respond to protest, it’s built to absorb it. We’ve marched for climate justice, taken the streets for peace, rallied for gender freedom, and now we mobilize for Palestine. The awareness … Continue reading Affective Protest vs. Effective Power: From Spectacle to Strategy

The problem of too big, Mastodon

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

Can bureaucracies join the #Fediverse? Yes – with WordPress + ActivityPub

Let’s stop pretending every institution has to “go social” by building new habits, communities, and platforms from scratch. We already have a solid, simple tool that can bridge them from the #dotcons into the #Fediverse: WordPress + the ActivityPub plugin. Institutions want control – That’s OK. Bureaucratic institutions, local councils, unions, media orgs, #NGOs, aren’t … Continue reading Can bureaucracies join the #Fediverse? Yes – with WordPress + ActivityPub

This is a story of power, plain and simple

Over the last few years, we’ve been watching a familiar story unfold, we’ve seen repeat itself in radical spaces, tech movements, and grassroots networks for decades. It starts in the grassroots with “progressive” #fashernistas (yes, them) pushing themselves into the front to speak for “us.” They talk the talk of decentralisation, care, community, and #FOSS … Continue reading This is a story of power, plain and simple

The future depends on us using the power we still have

The #openweb holds a quiet kind of power – messy, distributed, human. But I keep wondering: are people now too afraid to use that power? The sad truth is, many always were. Power isn’t something most of us are raised to understand, let alone wield collectively. For decades, we’ve been taught to outsource it, to … Continue reading The future depends on us using the power we still have