The process is meant to be messy, and there are no set laws or statutes, but instead a growing body of mythos and traditions that people can reference when making decisions. The model also includes the power of recall for both “The Voices” and “The Body” to ensure accountability and maintain trust within the community.…
The Witches Cauldron: Making History
The Witches Cauldron: Making History is an open activist archive project that aims to create a data commons based on the #4opens framework and motivated by the PGA hallmarks. The project aims to create a metadata-enriched digital collection of items hosted on a redundant and federated network of hosts and servers around the world, starting…
Make stronger the openweb family – #4opens
The #4opens is a framework for evaluating technology projects that are based on open data, open source, open standards, and open process. * Open data refers to the availability of data to the public, free of charge and without any restriction on its use. This is considered a basic requirement for a project to be…
Thinking outreach of the hashtag story
Classification of different versions of the web (such as #Web1, #Web2, #Web3, #Web4, or #Web5) can be a source of confusion and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). The hashtags #openweb and #closedweb provide a clear way to describe and understand the different types of web platforms. The #openweb refers to platforms that are open-source, community-controlled,…
The hashtag story shows the current state of the world
Some Hashtags
The #nothingnew hashtag is a simple #KISS project of rejecting the common sense neoliberalism and postmodernism of the last 40 years to reboot social change/challenge from the original modernist path to then build #somethingnew The #geekproblem hashtag is a complex view of the other hashtags. In this, we need to take the “problem” out of…
Nurturing community’s – tech is not going to do this
On the #fediverse, we need to work/think about the need to cross-link the subject instance. As, the idea of as instance as a community is lightly built into the code of mastodon. So individuals and groups need to push this into existence, then add issues to the #ygithub mastodon tracker to try and get this…
technologies job is to hold the trust in place
Think that might be a good #openweb slogan, “technologies job is to hold the trust in place” #OGB Decisions only count if a wide number of people engaged in them, because in the end it’s this group that will “enforce” the consensus. So one power mad nutter (quick, take the crown off) has little power…
Talking about the #techmess
Some one asked indieweb vs Fediverse
The indieweb is strongly individualism, where the Fediverse is more community based, though says it’s individualism to get #mainstreaming outreach (white lie). indieweb is a good fit for capitalism Fediverse is (as of now) a bad fit for capitalism So it depends on your (mostly unspoken) view on politics. In this they use overlapping tech…
Thinking about the social tech mess
#fashernista and the media are always a problem that is hard to do anything about. They shift the focus from the grassroots to themselves and tell #mainstreaming stories because this is what the media wants to hear. The undercurrents that is the story drafts back into the flow and nothing is understood, no change or…
A conversation on trust and tech with #OMN projects
Remember the #fedivers is built like this, no geek in their right minds would do this, yet we use it every day All our existing code is based on #feudalism master (admin) surf (user) this is why it is defenceless vs capitalism (#dotcons) There have been attempts to build democratic code, early #wikis, think #indymedia…