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Hamish Campbell

It’s not easy, and it’s not as simple as clicking “sign up” and walking into a ready-made community

Q: Very interested in what you have to say. I've been trying to find a place in the #Fediverse that's not in thrall to big tech. How do I join up? #OMN #OpenWeb. Hungry, feed me! A: This is harder than it should be, and that itself is a telling sign of where we are right now. The #Fediverse is a fascinating, messy, and diverse space, but much of it is still trapped in the gravity of the #dotcons. What you’ll mostly find are either clones of corporate social media—Twitter-like, […]

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#blocking#diy#dotcons
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Hamish Campbell

Why the Fediverse Needs a Connection Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots

One of the best things about the Fediverse is that real people and community's get to choose what kind of digital paths they want to take. Don’t want #Meta snooping around? Join or host an instance that blocks them out. Prefer not to have people search your content? Lock it down in your settings. Want to mediate the strong #blinded flow of “normies”? Close the doors via your instance settings. It’s a "nativist" system that offers a radical degree of agency compared to the […]

hamishcampbell.com/why-the-fed

hamishcampbell.comWhy the Fediverse Needs a Connection Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots – Hamish Campbell
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#4opens#blinded#blocking
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Hamish Campbell

Keeping Conversation’s Open, with the Fluffy-Spiky Debate

In activist spaces and grassroots communities, the tension between #fluffy and #spiky approaches is a well-worn dynamic. Fluffy represents a gentler, consensus-driven path, centred on kindness, inclusion, and collective care. Spiky, on the other hand, is sharp-edged, direct, and confrontational, willing to disrupt and break things to push for change. Both paths have their place, but the trouble arises when fluffy turns dogmatic, morphing into a hard passive-aggressive policing that silences […]

hamishcampbell.com/keeping-con

hamishcampbell.comKeeping Conversation’s Open, with the Fluffy-Spiky Debate – Hamish Campbell
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#blinded#blocking#deathcult
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Hamish Campbell

The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media

This has been going on for more than ten years, I have been at the heart of this movement, at many of the steps, I meet defeatism and negativity. It’s frustrating, especially now, when the mainstream is visibly stepping away from the #dotcons and looking for a place to land. We should be building that landing space, but instead, we’re tangled in the wreckage of failed ideas and cynical inertia. Yes, stupid fashionable ideas have failed again and again, but that doesn’t mean the […]

hamishcampbell.com/the-fashern

hamishcampbell.comThe #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media – Hamish Campbell
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PrivacyDigest

#VPN Providers Consider Exiting #France Over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands * TorrentFreak

In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to compel large VPN providers to support their pirate site #blocking program. The aim is to reinforce existing blocking measures, but VPN providers see this as a dangerous move, leading to potential #security issues and overblocking. As a result, some are considering leaving France altogether if push comes to shove.

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torrentfreak.comVPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands * TorrentFreakVPN providers see blocking orders as a threat to security and some consider exiting France, if blocking measures are granted.
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John Brown Type Beats

just seems kinda off that most people don't consider ideology to be a factor in defederation from kolektiva (or other instances)

like how long would you suppose an anarchist, anti-colonial instance would get along with liberal instances? authoritarian left ones? "apolitical" instances?

not discounting that folks have negative interactions with specific accounts, etc.

look at how many liberals react to calm, polite replies that accurately point to liberal policies and politicians helping to bring us to the current moment.. rage, insta-blocks, tirades against whole instances and ideologies based off a single encounter..

#Defederation#Blocking#Federation
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Hamish Campbell

Market Failure: Green Energy, Capitalism, and the Path We’re Not Taking

Professor Brett Christophers (Uppsala University)This lecture will explore the shortcomings of market-driven solutions to the climate crisis, the role of green energy, and the structural limits of capitalism in addressing environmental challenges. The climate crisis is getting worse, not better. We are burning more fossil fuels, not less. Even with the massive expansion of renewables, energy use is still rising, because green growth adds to consumption rather than replacing it. So, […]

hamishcampbell.com/market-fail

#4opens#ai#blocking
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Hamish Campbell

We need to break out of this cycle

Funding structures are built for #NGO nonsense, not grassroots projects where actual value is created. The #OMN, #indymediaback, and #OGB challenge this, but funders can’t grasp it because they don’t understand value outside institutional framing.Fixing the funding #blocking, funders need to THINK, not just UNDERSTAND. Right now, they "understand" in the framework of existing institutions, which means they miss the metaphor-driven, emergent nature of the #OMN. Our #Hashtag story is for […]

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hamishcampbell.comWe need to break out of this cycle – Hamish Campbell
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witchescauldron

To balance the continuing support for mess we need a real shift to things that matter in #openweb tech dev hamishcampbell.com/we-need-bal The answers to these #blocking forces lie in building, not just critiquing, creating alternative paths and structures that embody the change we wish to see.

hamishcampbell.comTo balance the continuing support for mess we need a real shift to things that matter in #openweb tech dev – Hamish Campbell
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