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There have been a lot of institutional prat moves on the #Fediverse over the last few years, the Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it https://hamishcampbell.com/the-real-debate-isnt-institutions-versus-communities/
People in general don't yet see the need to move beyond the #feudalism that shapes much of #FOSS governance. Because of this energy goes into defending existing structures and #blocking alternatives before they've have a chance to prove themselves.
That's one reason the #OGB approach is simple: build it permissionlessly and let it loose. People will see the value, or they won't.
The goal isn't to convince a small group of gatekeepers. It's to empower a much larger group of people to participate in technology, build consensus, and push the social agenda they actually need.
Less permission. More practice. It's a #KISS approach to #openweb governance.
If your politics is talking to people who already agree with you, it's probably a hobby, not a movement.
The #OMN path starts with building bridges between different groups, needs, and cultures. That's how collective power grows.
We live in an age of #stupidindividualism where everyone broadcasts and few connect. Look around. What do other people need? What can you do to link struggles rather than fragment them?
Build bridges, not bubbles.
Worth remembering that #NGO alt-tech events are riddled with careerists, consultants, and institutional baggage. Most of the value rarely comes from the stage-managed #mainstreaming conversations.
The useful stuff is found in the corridors, over coffee, and in the side discussions between people actually doing the work.
Less conference theatre, more real conversations please.
Ich frage mich, ob es möglich ist, mit einem kleinen Account für #EinfacheSprache im Fediverse mehr Menschen zu erreichen als eine bundesweit aktive Internetpartei.
Die #Piratenpartei wollte einmal das Internet verändern. Ich will nur komplizierte Dinge so erklären, dass alle sie verstehen können.
Lasst uns das Experiment wagen. Folgt mir, teilt meine Beiträge und schauen wir mal, was passiert.
For the #OMN, resistance to censorship is a social question as much as a technological one.
Think about how public visibility protects speech. People with status, networks, institutions, or audiences have more resilience when challenged or silenced. The question is: how do we level that power, so everyone gets a share of it?
Technology matters, but technology alone is never enough. The bigger issue is how we shape our communities, institutions, and social relations to distribute power rather than concentrate it.
A healthy #openweb isn't just censorship-resistant code. It's people building cultures of solidarity, mutual support, and public accountability that make censorship harder in the first place.
Tech is part of the answer. Society is the bigger part.
The #Fediverse - traditional structures are dead ends for this community.
If money is involved, you do get people - but usually the wrong incentives, the wrong dynamics, and the wrong outcomes.
Without money, in an era of #stupidindividualism, cooperation and voluntarism look like “nothing to gain”, so participation drops off or fragments.
That’s the mess we’re in: money distorts, but absence of money doesn’t produce collective action anymore.
So the real question for the #openweb and #OMN is how we rebuild meaningful reasons to cooperate that aren’t based on cash, but also aren’t captured by institutional or #dotcons logic.
The #OGB currently has three strands to work on:
The traditions of grassroots activist organising that have actually worked in practice.
The use of technological federation - #ActivityPub, the #Fediverse, and wider #openweb traditions - to scale those organising models.
Original thinking on bringing these together into native #openweb producer governance.
This is the most important part, and the part that needs the most input, criticism, and collaboration.
There are a lot of institutional prat moves on the #Fediverse over the last few years — we have a growing signal-to-noise problem.
Spiky – Fluffy – Debate
A bit of #OMN history: after the first wave of the #openweb was enclosed by the #dotcons, every few years a "new" solution appears promising to give power back to people and communities. Most of the time it simply repackages the same #dotcons power structures in a different form.
#web3 is a good example of this, it is the #closedweb rebuilt as an astroturf "grassroots" movement, wrapped in the language of decentralisation while remaining driven by speculation, investment, and control.
This is why so much of the #mainstreaming embraces it. It fits neatly within existing assumptions about ownership, markets, and power. In other words, it feels like "common sense".
The real challenge isn't new branding. It's rebuilding the social foundations of the #openweb.
The #neoliberal pushing of #stupidindividualism as "common sense" has left us struggling to cooperate. You can see it everywhere on the #Fediverse, and to a lesser extent across the #openweb.
Ironically, you don't see it as clearly on the #dotcons because the platforms build individualism directly into their algorithms and business models. The behaviour is still there, it's hidden by the machinery.
If we want to escape this mess, we first need to name it.
@urlyman they changed there login a year ago, and I could not work out how to reset it so gave up on them... as you say no big loss...
Saved by the #geekproblem, but please lets not bring that kinda mess to the #Fediverse and #openweb
The dutch ministry of economic affairs and climate has joined the #Fediverse! Welcome, @MinisterieEZK
@Phiro Willkommen im #Fediverse bei den coolen Kids! 😎👍
BTW als Tipp: Unter dem Hashtag #pnpde findest Du viele deutschsprachige Diskussionen zum Pen&Paper Rollenspiel.
Ob Apple oder Insta – wir nutzen die großen Plattformen, weil es angenehm ist. Doch demokratische Alternativen wie Mastodon sollten uns den Mehraufwand wert sein.
@joinmastodon.org #diday #digitalerunabhaengigkeitstag #digitalesouveraenitaet #fediverse @taz.de
https://taz.de/Alternative-zu-grossen-Tech-Konzernen/!6176396/
I wonder, has anyone ever done those stickers they put on traffic lights and stuff with e.g. a QR code for their #mastodon/ #fediverse instance?
Hmm. I wonder how legal that is in the first place, but I do see some actual businesses doing that here as well.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679
As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a little proud of this.
If you want want to do me a favor, be ready to welcome an influx of mildly woke people.
#xit #fediverse