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The amount of #SPAM in the #Fediverse is going up - most is from Mastodon.Social, but this also is spam crossing over from #Bluesky.
What is your plan to compost this mess?
In part, I’ve learned to stop chasing every mess people make and focus on rebuilding responsibility from the grassroots. In the #Fediverse, instances that spam links (apart from a current too big to fail one, with a bad-#hashtags issue) eventually get unfederated if they refuse to mediate their users. We can simply turn our backs and build healthier networks instead. If we spread horizontally, this works. That’s why #OMN matters.
@knowprose I see your point - in part I just like to turn my back on the mess people make - and rebuild responsibility from the grassroots - in the #Fediverse any instance that SPAMS links (except one that is currently a problem for bad #hashtags) will become unfederated if it does not mediate its users. So we can simply turn our backs - if we can spread horizontally - It's why this matters #OMN
The #Fediverse could be an interesting time to live through. The #openweb smells, this is a good thing.
We need more food for thought about soft networks vs hard networks. We need digital tools to make this web deeper, we need to make this depth from links not scale.
#Fediverse – What actually happened (no bullshit version) https://hamishcampbell.com/fediverse-what-actually-happened-no-bullshit-version/ Calling mythical people – if you’re out there and this still itches, we need an affinity group with long memories, allergic to foundations, who build and then disappear, who value trust over scale. Now would be a good time to stop ignoring each other.
The #Fediverse is an accidental #openweb reboot, largely grown by #fashernistas. It's like herding cats to get anything done - neither good nor bad, just the reality of how it evolved.
One path beyond this mess is #OGB: grassroots, #DIY producer governance.
The other is simply to live (and die) with the mess while trying to stop people bowing to the #deathcult. Keeping the #openweb alive starts there.
"In-group vs out-group" game many #fashernistas play to feel a sense of control and belonging. Sometimes it's useful. Too often it becomes #blocking instead of building.
On the #Fediverse, this tribalism creates more heat than light. The interesting question isn't how to pick a side - it's how to grow beyond the behaviour.
Wow. Eine super klare und neutrale Beschreibung des Fediverse. Die beste Handreichung für neuhier, die ich seit langem gelesen habe.
#neuhier #Fediverse
Was ist das Fediverse und wie funktioniert es?
Ich moechte schon heute das Pressefoto des Jahres kueren. Zu sehen, wie diese junge Frau in die Kamera schaut, umgeben von Nazis in der Washingtoner U-Bahn... mich zerreisst es da!
Und all das fand zum 250. Unabhaengigkeitstag der #USA statt. Hunderte Nazis marschierten durch die Stadt und skandierten "Reclaim America".
Und in #Erfurt rufen sie "Holt euch #Deutschland zurueck!"
Moin #Fediverse & euch nen gesunden Start in diesen Sonntag.
Nie wieder ist jetzt!
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Eine Innenaufnahme aus einem gut gefüllten U-Bahn-Waggon. Im Zentrum sitzt eine Schwarze Frau in einem grünen T-Shirt und blickt direkt in die Kamera. Sie ist umgeben von zahlreichen Männern, die einheitlich gekleidet sind: Sie tragen dunkle Hemden, khakifarbene Kappen mit Emblemen sowie weiße Masken, die ihre Gesichter bis auf die Augen vollständig verhüllen. Einige stehen in den Gängen und halten sich an den Haltestangen fest, während andere auf den Sitzen im Vordergrund platziert sind. Unten rechts befindet sich ein Reuters-Wasserzeichen.
The #4opens are practical tools for building grassroots collaboration.
Open Data → share knowledge.
Open Source → share code.
Open Standards → make projects work together.
Open Process → build trust through transparency.
The result? Less duplicated effort, more interoperability, stronger communities, and shared learning. A common path that helps projects recognise each other, collaborate, and grow outside closed corporate #dotcons platforms.
The #4opens build the trust and shared values we need to create a resilient #openweb.
A post from a few years ago, what has changed? #Fediverse, Definitions, and Building Activist Communities https://hamishcampbell.com/fediverse-definitions-and-building-activist-communities/
#OMN needs your help. All our projects are grassroots, #DIY efforts to rebuild the #openweb. If you have time, skills, or know someone who does, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for people interested in web development, hosting, sysadmin, documentation, testing, outreach, and community building. Every contribution helps.
Let's build public-first media and infrastructure together. #4opens #FOSS #Fediverse #Grassroots
#Mastodon and the wider #Fediverse are native #openweb projects built on the #4opens. Attempts to "harden" and "secure" them by closing them down miss the point: openness is the core strength, not the weakness.
* Use #ActivityPub for public media and publishing.
* Use encrypted P2P chat for private communication.
Mixing these roles, or spreading #FUD to justify unnecessary security layers on public media, doesn't make activists safe, it undermines the very openness that makes grassroots organising possible.
Use the right tool for the right job. #FOSS
@lardmotel we had mailing lists, KDX and seasons in the ... SAND TREADING .. It was absolutely amazing that we tried offering SEVERYTHING as a mounted CD for the punters to scarf down in the 90s even before napster. Still, the #fediverse is an obtuse wedge that has some persistence.
Get your daily dose of gothy poetry from @Aphelion a creator and honest force of light here on our #fediverse - you will love to have them on your #feed and support their #creativity
The early #openweb grew from a #DIY culture. People did not wait for permission. They built websites, shared code, created independent media, made tools, organised communities and experimented with new ways of communicating.
The power was not just in the technology. It was in the surrounding culture:
Do it yourself.
Share what you learn.
Build with others.
The problem is that DIY can stop at the first step. A lot of radical spaces become focused on identity, aesthetics and scene-building - the #fashernista layer - while missing the second part - Organisation.
The challenge is creating structures that survive. The #OMN idea is about reconnecting these two things: DIY + organisation.
The creativity of the #openweb with the practical need to build networks, memory, trust and shared infrastructure.
A living commons, the future needs people who make things, maintain things and connect things. The internet was never just about tools. It was about people building together.
#OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #fediverse #DIY #indymediaback
Welcome to the #fediverse .. our truly free decentralized social media. Thank you to all the individuals who have stuck it through to help build this by supporting your instances and making a global community home. Over the past 9 years we’ve seen so many instances come and go but the drive to build the open fediverse is bigger than any instance and is greater than the sum of all instances.
In just 10 months we will be celebrating 10 years on #mastodon when we moved from GNU StatusNET in May of 2017. Thank you for helping us build our part of the #fediverse here at SDF.ORG #thanks #community
@FatherEnoch Just because I think people shouldn't use them doesn't actually mean I am required to provide alternatives, so that's not the "gotcha" you might think it is. I'm sure the #Fediverse can provide the alternatives you seek.
Our #mainstreaming problem. If you are wondering why I keep documenting the issues around the #ActivityPub #openweb reboot, this is why.
Next time, maybe we can learn. Maybe we can mediate our “libertarian cats” a bit better and get a less messy path. Because we cannot keep making the same mistakes over and over.
I have been through this mess more than five times over 20 years of working on #openweb use, outreach and community building. This is not theory. It is experience.
Decentralised spaces are messy by nature. That is part of their strength. But if we don’t learn from our failures, the same patterns keep returning. So at the very least:
Can we please fuck up differently this time?
Document the lessons.
Build the memory.
Keep the commons alive.
Mess.
#OMN #4opens #fediverse #openweb #ActivityPub #commons #decentralisation #geekproblem
Worshipping the #deathcult is strangely normal even inside our “alternative” tech spaces.
Look at how we talk about horizontal #openweb projects. The branding itself pulls us back into the same patterns: building identities around products, personalities and platforms instead of the commons and the wider movement.
#Mastodon, #PeerTube and the use of the term #Fediverse become part of this #fashernista cycle - chasing labels and recognition while avoiding or forgetting the deeper social change these tools were meant to support.
At the #OMN we use #openweb as the bigger frame. The projects are important, but they should sit as links within a wider ecosystem, not become the whole story.
The path is not another brand. The path is a living, diverse, decentralised movement for change and challenge.
Time to stop looking down at the floor, get up and build the commons.
#OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #deathcult
Wrote this 5 years ago, and it still feels relevant.
#OMN is about pushing pragmatic horizontalism as a living practice.
There are millions of people experimenting with these ideas through the #fediverse and the wider #openweb - one of the biggest real-world experiments in decentralised, networked social organisation happening today.
The interesting question is not whether horizontal systems can work. The question is how we learn from them, improve them and build the social tools needed to keep them healthy.
Less control, more participation, build the commons.
#OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #geekproblem
Sometimes the answer is not removing trust. Sometimes the answer is rebuilding it.
“No trust” is an imaginary problem that crypto doesn’t actually solve anyway.
Trust is not a bug in society - it is the foundation of society. Communities, relationships, cooperation and shared knowledge all depend on trust.
Building everything around the assumption that humans cannot trust each other leads to the #deathcult logic - #neoliberalism written in code.
The #geekproblem is confusing technical distrust with a social solution. More encryption, more verification, more systems of control do not automatically create better communities.
#openweb #commons #fediverse #4opens #OMN #deathcult #geekproblem
So we have real issues to deal with - is there a space in the #Fediverse for collective democratic organising. The world is a mess, and we have way too much #techshit to compost.
Social justice movements don’t start from the top. They grow from the ground, from people and communities affected by injustice who organise, experiment and build change.
To grow these movements wider, we need spaces that allow open and unexpected connections. The #openweb and #fediverse matter because they create room for communication, outside corporate and state control.
Projects like #OMN and #indymediaback are about rebuilding these grassroots networks as commons.
History matters too. Movements need memory. If we forget past struggles, working practices and victories, every generation has to start again. Projects like #makinghistory preserve the knowledge that lets future movements learn and grow.
There is also the constant challenge of co-option. Funding and institutions slowly reshape movements, changing their culture and priorities. Staying independent is difficult - but history shows it is possible.
We need both the spiky and the fluffy paths, change comes from growing alternatives while pushing back against the systems that create the problems.
#OMN #indymediaback #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #activism #socialjustice
Grassroots #openweb activism has a history of rising, falling and adapting. The UK has seen waves of independent media, digital organising and networked activism - each learning from what came before.
The challenge is #rebooting an #openweb that stays native, open, decentralised, creative without becoming locked into the control systems it is trying to escape. We need pragmatic approaches that protect people while keeping spaces open for collective action.
Activism has challenges, groups can lose their original purpose when funding, institutions and professionalisation reshape their culture. Staying independent and connected to the communities that created the movement is hard - but necessary.
The last 40 years of political drift, from #neoliberalism to today’s hard rightward shift, shows the cost of failing to build strong alternatives.
The #OMN is part of this ongoing work of open media, decentralised networks and the connection between technology and social justice.
The future needs both the technical and the social - tools, culture, memory and movements.
#KISS build the commons. Keep the networks open.
#OMN #indymediaback #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #activism #opensource #socialjustice
Use #hashtags to break out of the #filterbubbles they are small tools, but they help ideas travel beyond the people who already agree.
The #climatechaos discussion needs more than repeating solutions that stay inside the same old paths. Too many “solutions” still accept the rules of the #deathcult - endless growth, extraction and profit first. Real change means questioning the foundations.
Create commons that cannot simply be bought and captured. The challenge is not just fixing climate, it is changing the systems that create the crisis.
Use existing #hashtags. Create new ones. Connect ideas. Build networks.
The #openweb was always about this: people finding each other, sharing knowledge and growing alternatives.
#OMN #4opens #commons #fediverse #climatechaos #deathcult #openweb #systemchange
The challenge now is diversity, not picking one winner. I’d argue #Mastodon is drifting in the wrong direction - not because what it is doing is wrong, but because balance matters.
Mastodon has become very good at outreach into the #mainstreaming world. That is useful, and it is a valid path. The problem is when one path becomes the whole #Fediverse.
The #openweb was never meant to be one codebase, one culture, one governance model. It grows through diversity of value.
The issue is that Mastodon is now carrying more #NGO thinking, more institutional habits, and more mainstream assumptions. That doesn’t make it bad - but it does mean it is less healthy as the only “native” path.
The answer is not attacking Mastodon. The answer is growing the wider ecosystem: more codebases, more diversity, more grassroots governance, more messy creativity.
A healthy Fediverse needs many roots, not one trunk.
@skaphle @chrisstoecker Mir bislang auch noch nicht, was sehr für #Mastodon und das #Fediverse spricht. 😊
3/3 Participants will take part in talks, workshops, and hands-on collaboration exploring what a more resilient, open, and decentralised web could look like in practice.
DWeb Camp is a space for building, not just talking about, the web we want.
@brewsterkahle @internetarchiveeurope @dweb #DWebCamp #DWeb #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse
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DWeb Camp attendees relaxing and conversing in inflatable lounge chairs among tall redwood trees, with teal paper lanterns strung overhead and a hammock visible in the background.
I wrote this 5 years ago before the #Fediverse took off.
We have a class problem that needs attention. A large part of the privileged (empowered) world has spent the last 10+ years posting memes, outrage and identity signals on #failbook - helping build #dotcons into incredibly powerful systems of social control.
This is uncomfortable, but we need to be honest about it. The problem is not just “them” - it is also the participation of people who had the resources, education and influence to build something different but instead fed the systems that now shape public culture.
A class with power has a responsibility to look at how that power is used. The #openweb alternative is not more outrage inside closed platforms. It is rebuilding spaces based on participation, trust, transparency and shared ownership.
We need to look at ourselves and act.
Urgently.
@jmaris bit more than that, have been involved in a grassroots sense in #EU tech policy to do with the #Fediverse for the last 5 years.
Good first step is to read the articles https://hamishcampbell.com/the-eu-opportunity-and-danger-what-grassroots-projects-can-offer/ for this needed different view.
New masto-fe:
++ better dark hi-contrast mode.
++ 1-7 focus columns don't move to the top, 0 does! You can keyboard-warrior it! jk work fine.
+ alt text being 10K should help a lot, when I post whole textbook pages.
-- column scroll bars are narrower. They do look more readable even without my stupidcomments.css hacks.
-- left column is just as obnoxious as ever, my hacks are still needed.