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The #OMN is built on a simple, powerful truth: "This is the Internet."

GET
PUT
POST
DELETE
–MERGE–

These basic actions — close to the core HTTP verbs every website uses — are all you need to create, share, remix, and grow.
(From RFC 7231 and RFC 5789.)

Then you have the #4opens which are about reclaiming the grassroots social power of the web:

Open data

Open source

Open process

Open standards

No gatekeepers. No #dotcons middlemen. No closed silos. Just people, building together. This is what #openweb reboot looks like.

In the #openweb and #Fediverse spaces, it's worth remembering: Many people only value things once they’re validated by #mainstreaming sources. This is narrow, blinded behaviour — the kind that keeps the #deathcult fed.

If you only see value through the lens of #dotcons algorithms, you’re missing 90% of what actually matters.

A lot of the “famous” people in #mainstreaming — even on alt spaces — are assholes. Not because fame makes you bad, but because climbing the algorithm's ladder requires selfishness, ego, and conformity.

On alt platforms, sure, we have "our" assholes, that's life. But our assholes can be challenged, mediated, and composted into something better. On the #mainstreaming side? They're more shit on the corporate pile.

Please, don't bow down to them. Stay critical. Stay rooted. Keep your shovel handy.

We compost now. That means naming the problems clearly — with #4opens, with #nothingnew, with #techchurn — and using simple, shared language to build trust again. Not trust in apps or brands, but in each other. The #Fediverse gives us a foundation. The hashtags give us a narrative. The compost gives us soil. It’s time to stop pretending we’re building something while we’re really just stacking junk. Stop chasing bling. Start seeding roots. Speak simply, act clearly, hashtag with intention. We've wasted a decade. Let’s not lose another.

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hamishcampbell.comHamish Campbell – An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
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Messy language feeds back into our culture

The #blocking of current action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with the mess our language makes. And the deeper issue is how this messy language feeds back into our culture, which then loops back to make the language even murkier. It’s a feedback loop that clouds meaning, erodes trust, and paralyses collective action. The last 40 years of postmodernism and neo-liberalism have made this worse. #Postmodernism chipped away at the idea of shared reality, […]

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Rebooting the #openweb in a good way

The #Fediverse exists, and more than that, it’s alive and kicking. Sure, it might be a messy, chaotic, a bit fragmented, and yes, still niche. But let’s not underplay it, this is the healthiest corners of the internet we’ve got. Tens of million accounts, hundreds of thousands active people, sometimes talking about how we build our digital spaces from the bottom up. Yep, there are the cat videos, the #fluffys and the #spikys. But also an in-group debate is bubbling away about who […]

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The Failure of #Mainstreaming – What Comes Next?

It should be painfully obvious by now that all the current #mainstreaming paths have failed. Whether we look at politics, technology, media, or activism, the same patterns emerge, co-option, stagnation, and eventual collapse under their own mess and contradictions. The valid question isn’t whether mainstreaming has failed, it has. The real question is: What do we do about it? This applies just as much to our efforts to reboot the #openweb as it does to broader struggles in the "real […]

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rights.social./bill-of-rights this is exactly the same project and process as the #4opens just more liberal/capitalist friendly. And no teeth... it's an appeal to people - where the original and much older #4opens is that and more importantly it's a way of judging devs #KISS

The real thing is here unite.openworlds.info/Open-Med

phhwww... #nothingnew comes to mind, though diversity is good, the project needs to link, this is basic #openweb

rights.socialSocial Media Bill of RightsFive fundamental rights we need for a free, open, and humane social media ecosystem

#Techshit Hype – #NothingNew

The is nothing new to pointing out that our #fashionistas #mainstreaming crew push mess. Remember when drone deliveries were going to revolutionize shopping? When every major news outlet unthinkably reported that we’d have autonomous quadcopters dropping off toothpaste and Amazon boxes on our doorsteps? Or when 3D TVs were the future of entertainment, pushed so aggressively that manufacturers stopped making non-3D models for a while? Where are they now? Rotting covered in dust in […]

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VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

Nearly 20 years ago, we built something radical. #VisionOnTV wasn’t just another platform, it was a #4opens movement. A bold attempt to break free from corporate-controlled media and give people the tools to create and share activist-driven, alternative television. We weren’t waiting for permission; we were building the future we wanted to see. Before #YouTube became the advertising surveillance monolith it is today, we had a different vision. One where video wasn’t just disposable […]

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These aren’t pointless projects

#mainstreaming #liberalism has lost its way. For the past 20 years, many self-described liberals have spewed out bilge water disguised as "common sense." But when pressure mounts, they reveal themselves as dogmatic and intolerant, almost as if they aren't truly liberal at all. How did we end up in this mess? The #deathcult, #stupidindividualism, and the rise of #dotcons shaped the dominant version of "common sense," warping it away from collective care and into something narrow and […]

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What matters and what is dangerous

The influx of #mainstreaming brings many different, often non-native, focuses into our spaces. Most of these will be better handled as external resources. Let’s keep the core simple: #KISS and #4opens. Money is a dangerous subject for #openweb projects. It’s the root of corruption and co-option, so it’s best to keep financial aspects as external applications and simply link to them. Words are wind, look at the ground. We live in a closed world, and we should not add to this […]

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The #mainstreaming paths actively erases or undermines anything that could offer a different path. Crushing alternatives before they grow. Any real challenge to the system is either co-opted, bought out, or destroyed before it can take root.

Gatekeeping and controlled opposition. NGOs, media, and “progressive” institutions manage dissent, keeping it within safe, toothless boundaries. Even those who see something different often can’t see where to go, so they stick to the broken but familiar.

That’s why #OMN and #4opens matter. We’re not just talking about what’s wrong—we’re building something better. If people don’t see an alternative, they’ll keep walking the same doomed path.

Even when people can see the disaster coming, they feel powerless to stop it. Instead of fighting back, they shut down, distract themselves with whatever comfort they can find, and numb the pain with consumerism and entertainment.

This is why we need collective action, not individual struggle. Nobody fights alone. That’s the purpose of the #OMN—to build real alternatives that people can step into, where their energy isn’t just drained, but used to create change.

The first step? Stop pretending you’re powerless. Find your people. Do something—anything—outside the #deathcult. That’s how we start.

From birth, we’re conditioned to accept the system as inevitable. The #mainstreaming propaganda machine is relentless—schools, media, entertainment, workplaces—all reinforcing one message:

There Is No Alternative (#TINA). They are trained to: See resistance as futile – “You can’t change anything, so why try?” View rebellion as chaos – “Radicals just want to destroy everything.” Accept compliance as normal – “Be reasonable, play the game, fit in.”

The #deathcult survives by convincing people that they have no agency. It punishes dissent and rewards obedience with shallow comforts—consumerism, distraction, performative politics.

Breaking free requires deprogramming—seeing through the illusion of stability and realizing that the real danger isn’t rebellion, but obedience to a collapsing path.

The #OMN is about rebuilding what’s been erased—trust, autonomy, and real alternatives. Because the biggest lie of the #deathcult is that we have no choice.

We do.

Worshipping the #deathcult isn’t just about fear, it’s about comfort. Even those who recognize the system is broken still cling to its predictability. Why? Because change is hard, and uncertainty is terrifying.

The #deathcult doesn’t control through oppression; it seduces. It offers: Endless consumerism – Buy your way out of discomfort, drown in distraction. Instant entertainment – Streams of content to keep you numb, passive, and compliant. Social validation – Perform the right opinions, keep your head down, and you won’t be cast out.

Even those who hate the system find themselves going along with it, because the alternative—stepping into the unknown—is daunting.

The illusion of stability is powerful. People stay in bad relationships, toxic jobs, broken systems because they at least know what to expect. Risking real change feels worse than enduring a slow decay.

But comfort is a short-term drug with a long-term cost. The longer we delay action, the worse the collapse.

The #OMN isn’t about offering a comfortable alternative, it’s about building resilient networks where people can step out of the #deathcult and into something real.

Because comfort in a burning house is an illusion.

Many people are trapped in precarious economic conditions, living paycheck to paycheck, burdened by debt, or just one crisis away from collapse. They aren’t blind to the failures of the #deathcult—they see the destruction, the exploitation, the ecological collapse—but they still conform. Why?

Because resisting feels too dangerous when you have so little to lose. Losing a job means homelessness. Speaking out means social exile. Challenging authority means becoming a target.

People aren’t cowards. They are hostages to a system that has made survival itself conditional on obedience. When the stakes are so high, rebellion seems like a luxury.

The #deathcult thrives on this fear. It keeps people exhausted, isolated, and too busy scrambling for survival to organize, resist, or imagine alternatives.

But fear is only effective as long as people believe they have no choice. The moment we start building alternative structures of support, community, and resilience, the power of that fear fades.

We don’t need courageous individuals, we need strong collectives that refuse to let people fall when they take a stand. That’s the path out.

#OMN #4opens #nothingnew #deathcult #stupidindividualism #geekproblem

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Most of our crew have made this mess for the last 20 years. Life inside the #dotcons algorithm is a trap—one that people fight for, troll for, and become addicted to. These platforms are designed to feed engagement through division, making people react emotionally rather than think critically.

#Failbook and the rise of victim culture isn't an accident. It's a feature, not a bug. The algorithm rewards outrage, amplifies conflict, and keeps people in a loop of reaction rather than action. People get stuck performing identities instead of building real alternatives.

The #OMN approach? Step outside the algorithm. Build trust-based networks where people interact as humans, not as data points for corporate profit. The #Fediverse and #ActivityPub-based platforms offer a path out, but we need to push harder to grow them in a way that challenges #mainstreaming liberal control.

We don’t need more “ethical” #dotcons. We need an independent, federated media ecosystem. That’s what the #OMN is about.

Building a #4opens Alternative to the #Deathcult

We live in a system that worships consumption. It’s not just about meeting needs, it’s about feeding an economy that only grows when people buy more, waste more, and replace instead of repair. This is one of the core tenants of the #deathcult, the #neoliberal ideology that tells us there is no alternative to endless growth, even as it drags us toward #climatechaos. What if we build something different, something that values community over consumption, reuse over replacement, and DIY […]

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@brent That's true, what do you think of #4opens and #nothingnew to both cut through 99% of the crap so the few people who are going to do something can do something that would be useful rather than unless?

From useful you get a few more people rinse and repeat, and you might get social change and challenge, if anything it will be more fun than the current mess making.

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