witchescauldron<p>An older <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> project implementation that did not work out, despite the hard work put in, because people did not use it, focusing on building their worlds inside the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a>, this created the mess we are in today. </p><p>One more step OMN <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/one-more-step-omn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/one-more-st</span><span class="invisible">ep-omn/</span></a></p>
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Hamish Campbell<p>The <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OMN" target="_blank">#OMN</a> and federated trust networks offer a roadmap for reclaiming decentralized media spaces. By focusing on trust, moderation, and the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%234opens" target="_blank">#4opens</a>, we move beyond the failures of centralized <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dotcons" target="_blank">#dotcons</a>. Federated Trust Networks: A Path <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/federated-trust-networks-a-path/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hamishcampbell.com/federated-tr...</a><br><br><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/federated-trust-networks-a-path/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Federated Trust Networks: A Pa...</a></p>
witchescauldron<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a> and federated trust networks offer a roadmap for reclaiming decentralized media spaces. By focusing on trust, moderation, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a>, we move beyond the failures of centralized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> and create sustainable, community-driven alternatives. Federated Trust Networks: A Path <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/federated-trust-networks-a-path/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/federated-t</span><span class="invisible">rust-networks-a-path/</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fromjason" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fromjason</span></a></span> yep this original <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a> path is NOT comparable with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/encryptionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encryptionist</span></a> pushing, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> common sense we are all too blinded and dogmatic to today.</p><p>It's a mess we do need to compost.</p>
witchescauldron<p>The fight for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> is not only about resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> but creating alternatives people can and will use. What software do activists need? <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/what-software-do-activists-need/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/what-softwa</span><span class="invisible">re-do-activists-need/</span></a></p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>Affective Protest vs. Effective Power: From Spectacle to Strategy</strong></p>
<p>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 is unprecedented. The turnout is historic. But what has shifted?</p>
<p>Police powers expanded. Fossil fuel extraction accelerated, Gaza burns. The truth is: […]</p>
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Hamish Campbell<p><strong>Can bureaucracies join the #Fediverse? Yes – with WordPress + ActivityPub</strong></p>
<p>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 designed for fast, messy social interaction. They won’t control over moderation, messaging, and timelines. […]</p>
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hamish campbell<p>The Fediverse represents a shift towards community-driven, decentralized networking, offering an alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a>. It prioritizes people’s and community agency, inclusivity, and accessibility, to create spaces to connect and express difference and similarity. Who gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/who-gets-to-decide-what-this-place-is-how-are-we-being-represented/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/who-gets-to</span><span class="invisible">-decide-what-this-place-is-how-are-we-being-represented/</span></a></p>
Hamish Campbell<p>The <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%234opens" target="_blank">#4opens</a> provides a useful lens to evaluate and assess technology projects <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-framework-provides-a-useful-lens-through-which-to-evaluate-and-assess-technology-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-f...</a> particularly in the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23openweb" target="_blank">#openweb</a> and <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dotcons" target="_blank">#dotcons</a>.<br><br><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-framework-provides-a-useful-lens-through-which-to-evaluate-and-assess-technology-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The #4opens provides a useful ...</a></p>
hamish campbell<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a> provides a useful lens to evaluate and assess technology projects <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-framework-provides-a-useful-lens-through-which-to-evaluate-and-assess-technology-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/the-4opens-</span><span class="invisible">framework-provides-a-useful-lens-through-which-to-evaluate-and-assess-technology-projects/</span></a> particularly in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a>.</p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>The future depends on us using the power we still have</strong></p>
<p>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 institutions, to markets, to influencers. But the cracks are everywhere now, and there’s no more room to pretend.</p>
<p>What we’re facing isn’t theoretical, the hard right is […]</p>
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witchescauldron<p>The website <a href="http://hamishcampbell.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">hamishcampbell.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> serves as a platform for grassroots activism, open technology, and social change. The site promotes the Open Media Network (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a>), a transformative model aimed at creating decentralized, cooperative media spaces that prioritize community-driven content over corporate or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGO</span></a> control. It emphasizes open-source principles, collective action, and resistance to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stupidindividualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stupidindividualism</span></a>. The site also has reflections on social issues like climate change, inequality, alongside advocacy for preserving natural spaces. The primary focus is on his social and technological initiatives, such as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a> framework and critiques of mainstream <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> digital platforms.</p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>It’s becoming a problem</strong></p>
<p>It’s becoming a problem. When people start asking, “Is @_elena the first genuine superstar of the Fediverse?” – we should all pause. This isn’t idle praise, it’s the reproduction of celebrity culture, liberal imperialism, and vertical hierarchy in a space that explicitly set out to reject those structures.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought – just for a moment – that this might be the completely WRONG path for a horizontal network like the #Fediverse? Yes, we need mess. Yes, we need […]</p>
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Hamish Campbell<p><strong>The Fediverse is opening, but there is a cost</strong></p>
With the #Fediverse gaining increasing #mainstreaming attention, we’re entering a familiar cycle, an influx of well-funded #NGO-branded projects trying to "fix" the #openweb by reshaping it in their own narrowing and to often blinded paths.
Take this year’s #chatteringclass event, #FediForum. Alongside breathless praise, last year, for #Threads joining the #opensocialweb space, we’re seeing the launch of shiny new tools: #BonfireSocial, #Channelorg, #Bounce. That promise innovation […]
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Hamish Campbell<p><strong>Governance, the mess of AI tech-fix paths</strong></p>
Seminar Reflection: Philosophy, AI – Week 6Speakers: Chris Summerfield (Oxford & AI Safety Institute), MH Tessler (Google DeepMind)Key texts: Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (excerpt) and Summerfield et al., “AI Can Help Humans Find Common Ground in Democratic Deliberation”
This seminar focus is on scaling democratic deliberation via AI. The example proposal is the #HabermasMachine a test projects to facilitate large-scale consensus using #LLMs […]
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Hamish Campbell<p><strong>Telegram is dieing</strong></p>
Telegram partnering with Elon’s #AI to distribute #Grok inside chats is a clear line crossed. This matters because private data ≠ training fodder, bringing Grok (or any #LLM) into messaging apps opens the door to pervasive data harvesting and normalization of surveillance.This is an example of platform drift: Telegram was always sketchy (proprietary, central control, opaque funding), but this is active betrayal of its user base, especially those in repressive regions who relied on […]
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witchescauldron<p>“Use and abuse” is a good strategy for dealing with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> while they continue to dominate our digital and social infrastructure. Why? Because refusing to engage with these platforms outright is the equivalent of shouting into the void - or living in a cave. And caves, while romantic to a certain type of purist, are never effective social solutions.</p><p>The truth is this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> are still where the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mainstreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mainstreaming</span></a> people live, and mainstream attention is power, even if borrowed. As radicals or progressives, using their platforms to push counter-narratives, while simultaneously undermining their legitimacy and building our own <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> independent infrastructure, is both necessary and strategic. Think of it as exiting from within by using their reach to grow the seeds of our native alt-path.</p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>The #OMN View – The Dogma of Anti-Dogma: Rainbow Gatherings</strong></p>
We need to talk about a circler familiar mess: when movements that are open, non-hierarchical, and anti-authoritarian end up recreating the problems they set out to escape. This is the “dogma of anti-dogma”, and you see it everywhere, the example I am using here is in groups like the Rainbow Gatherings.
The Rainbow Gatherings have deep roots in 1970s counterculture. Born from the peace and ecology movements, it emerged with a back-to-the-land, anti-establishment, peace-and-love spirit. […]
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witchescauldron<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> fail human connection, as people become more aware of bots replacing humans, the sense of authenticity diminishes, particularly among those who value any real social connections. <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/dotcons-fail-human-connection/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/dotcons-fai</span><span class="invisible">l-human-connection/</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p>The choice between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> reflects a broader conflict between decentralisation and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> corporate control. Public Social Media: The Choice is Clear <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/public-social-media-the-choice-is-clear/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/public-soci</span><span class="invisible">al-media-the-choice-is-clear/</span></a></p>
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