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OMN history note: Failbook, activism, and the enclosure of organising
This is a mess we are finally starting to move away from. For over a decade, #failbook was one of the main organising spaces for progressive activism. On the surface it looked useful: easy groups, fast sharing, broad reach. But structurally it was never neutral. It was built as a #dotcons attention machine, optimised for engagement, conflict, and dependency. That design matters.
Platforms like this don’t just host activism – they reshape it. They push people toward reaction over reflection, outrage over organisation, and constant presence over sustained collective work. As we now recognise, they breed argument loops, emotional exhaustion, and political burnout. Not because activists are doing it “wrong”, but because the environment is engineered to reward exactly that behaviour.
From an #OMN perspective, this sits inside a wider enclosure cycle: grassroots online energy gets poured into #dotcons corporate infrastructure, that infrastructure extracts value (attention, data, control), and movements quickly become dependent on systems structurally hostile to long-term collective growth.
This is where the critique of the #deathcult becomes useful – not as a slogan, but as a description of how #neoliberal “common sense” gets embedded into everyday tools. If everything is individualised, reactive, and algorithmically amplified, then solidarity becomes very hard to sustain.
So yes: a huge amount of activist energy over the last 20 years has been absorbed into producing “empty” reach and visibility inside the #dotcons, rather than building durable autonomous spaces outside them. That has consequences, it weakens movements over time, even when it feels productive in the moment to the blinded #fashionistas. Simply it was a dead end.
Finally, we are now seeing something important – fatigue and recognition. Many groups are realising that #dotcons are no longer reliable organising spaces – but not only because of corporate control, but because of rising right-wing trolling, algorithmic hostility, and the general degradation of signal into noise. This has helped trigger a shift toward #openweb projects like the #Fediverse over the last few years.
Some parts of the activist ecosystem are beginning to look back toward federated tools and slower, more resilient forms of coordination. This is where the #OMN argument becomes practical rather than theoretical: if we want movements that last, we need spaces designed for cooperation, not capture.
The lesson is simple, even if uncomfortable – if you organise inside systems designed to fragment you, you should expect fragmentation.
The next phase is not louder posting, it’s building elsewhere.
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
Not a fan of time-based autodelete posts on Fediverse 
Why would many foks enable that? Some discussions are valuable to come back again, yet threads are broken if posts are autodeleted at some point 
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb – it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag.
Why is this a mess? Existing working systems: #Fediverse (e.g. Mastodon), RSS, open standards, were ignored or dismissed as “non-scalable” or “non-monetizable” so there plan is reinventing the wheel → badly. With “scaling” used as an excuse for control with claims that the #fediverse “can’t scale” and “needs monetization”. The simple reality is scaling here is an old story of centralising control + extracting value.
Let’s look at this from a native view of grassroots scale = trust, diversity, human limits vs corporate scale vs control, extraction, surveillance. They are different processes → different outcomes with ID verification = anti-commons architecture. What this creates is exclusion, surveillance, and power asymmetry. This shallowly hidden #dotcons path flips the #openweb model from permissionless participation to controlled access and tracking. It’s not a public space – it’s infrastructure for governance and policing.
Let’s look at how the #mainstreaming media failed as it’s a part of the problem, journalists repeated press releases with no technical or cultural literacy, leading to the mainstreaming mythology of “first European network” unchallenged, this cultural memory hole is a recurring mess making we need to compost. the outcome is every shallow reboot looks “new”.
This feeds the real divide in tech vs culture. You see the same split again on the dev side: forks protocols, builds platforms → ignores social process. And on the activist side: understands community → stuck in Facebook/Slack. Without combining both you either get silos or you get capture. One useful way of seeing this is to follow the money, to see the outcome of investor-driven, marketing-heavy teams with “Monetization” as a core requirement. Funding-first projects don’t build commons, they build exits, leverage, or control systems.
It should be obviously – nobody should be surprised that this liberal pushing of “Sovereignty” is being hijacked, using #EU branding as legitimacy. This is the #eurowashing of #dotcons models we touched on at the start. Real “sovereignty”, what ever it means, lives in open protocols, distributed governance and local autonomy. Not in a branded platform, or the nation state any more thus the biggest danger is confusion. People will still join because “it’s European”, “it’s new” and “it sounds ethical”. Thus, the problem isn’t only evil actors – it’s signal-to-noise collapse.
What this means for projects like the #OMN (the actionable bit). This whole story reinforces the core path – that we focus on stopping building “new platforms” to start composting what already exists. A common’s strategy using existing protocols (#ActivityPub, RSS), rooted in grassroots trust networks. Keep processes open (#4opens) to accept human-scale limits then scale by federate for reach, not control.
The #WSocial mess shows exactly what happens when you strip the #openweb of its culture and replace it with PR, funding, and control. Our native path is the opposite, growth from the commons. Its #KISS or you just recreate the problem.
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
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#reboot is the necessary reset of the #openweb - stepping away from the dead ends of #techshit and #dotcons to rebuild digital infrastructure on human-centred, trust-based foundations, using tools like #activitypub and the #fediverse, guided by the #4opens.
"An island of loser misfit zealots." --John Gruber on fedi
We really should just use that as the slogan for fedi. The worst people you know call us names!
#fediverse #feditips #fedipact
The problem isn’t that the #Fediverse has politics – it’s that people keep pretending it doesn’t, and then acting them out anyway in messy, unconscious ways. The #Fediverse – We need to now not fight like we always do https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fedivers-we-need-to-now-not-fight-like-we-always-do/
One of the most important texts if you wanted to get a #DiplomInformatiker (Computer Science) degree with emphasis on #TechnicalApplications in the mid 1990s at the #MunichUniversityOfAppliedSciences (#muas, now called #HochschuleMuenchen aka #hm). I wonder if anyone else in the entire #Fediverse shares that opinion? Or maybe even shared the experience? 🤣 #BoostForReach #TheNinetiesCalledAndWantMoreRespect
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Schaum's Outline Series "Theory and Problems of Lagrangian Dynamics" (The outside may look 1990s-dated, but the inside looks like it's straight from the 1950s I swear.)
On the #OMN path, the #fediverse is the practical #reboot infrastructure of the #openweb - a decentralised network of interconnected, community-controlled networks built on #4opens standards like #activitypub, where no corporation owns the pipes, and where people and media flow across different instances.
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