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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

The biggest question is not whether #AI becomes useful. It is who shapes the surrounding paths? A future controlled by a few #dotcons will reproduce the same mess we have now of centralisation, extraction, enclosure. Were a future built through #4opens paths would look different.

The #geekproblem is believing the next tool solves the old problem. But many problems are not tool problems, they are relationship problems. The next stage is not replacing humans with smarter machines, it is building better human paths that can use machines without becoming dependent on them. Beyond AI is about making communities capable, the real upgrade is not artificial intelligence, it is collective intelligence.

AI is changing the scale of content creation, but not raising the quality. Generative AI tools have lowered the barrier to producing average books, apps, music, legal documents, academic papers and endless streams of text. The result is a massive increase in output, but what happens when production grows faster than our ability to filter, discuss, trust, maintain and give meaning to what is produced?

More books, but more noise, more apps, but more clutter, more papers, but more pressure on systems of review, more music, but a harder struggle to recognise human creativity and care. The #dotcons logic says – more content = more value – were the #openweb lesson is different, value comes from communities, trust, context and care. The challenge is not creating more things, the challenge is building better commons around the things we create.

The AI question is bigger than the technology, as the current wave of generative AI (#GenAI) is presented by our #fashionistas and there servants as inevitable. The message is everywhere to adapt, adopt, integrate, or be left behind. But technology is never neutral, every tool carries assumptions about who benefits, who controls it, what values it embeds and what damage is accepted as the “price of progress”.

From an #OMN perspective, the question is not simply “Can this technology do impressive things?” Of course, it can. The real question is “What kind of society does this technology build?” Does it strengthen human creativity, collective intelligence and open participation? Or does it deepen the existing #dotcons path of centralisation, extraction, dependency and enclosure? This is the wider #openweb question we should be focusing on.

Large language models (#LLM) and generative AI systems represent a real technical development. They can summarise information, translate languages, generate text, assist coding and help people interact with large amounts of information. These are useful capabilities, but the hype jumps from assistance to much larger claims – That AI will replace expertise – That it will solve social problems – That it will transform education and science – That it will create a better future automatically.

The problem is that current AI systems do not understand the world, they generate patterns based on huge amounts of training data. They do not know truth from falsehood, meaning from appearance, or ethics from probability. A convincing answer is not the same thing as understanding.

The missing social layer in our narrow conversations is that the #openweb was built around a different idea, that knowledge comes from people, from communities, discussion, correction, disagreement and shared responsibility. This is where the #geekproblem appears – the tendency to confuse technical capability with social wisdom – the technical question becomes “Can we build it?” the social question “Should we?” often disappears.

A better search algorithm does not automatically create a healthier information system, a faster way to generate content does not automatically create better knowledge. More automation does not automatically create more freedom. The missing piece is the culture around the technology, as technology without social responsibility becomes a tool for whoever already has power.

This is not even touching on that the ecological cost of scale is a catastrophe in the era of #climatechaos and social backdown. The current AI boom depends on enormous infrastructure, huge amounts of electricity, water for cooling, specialised hardware with constant replacement cycles leading to the large-scale resource extraction. At a time of #climatechaos, we should question whether endless expansion is the only possible future. The #dotcons model has always worked through scale, more users, more data, more infrastructure and more dependency. Generative AI is arriving inside the same economic system that created the catastrophic problems it claims to solve.

Then we have the open internet problem, the #openweb was built around participation, people created #4opens websites, communities, documentation, software and culture. GenAI introduces a different path, that the internet becomes raw material, this human creativity becomes training data. Communities produce knowledge, while large companies extract and monetise it. This creates a dangerous cycle were there is less support for creators → less motivation to create → less genuine knowledge → more dependence on generated content. Its #KISS to understand that healthy commons cannot survive if everything is extracted and nothing is returned.

The #Fediverse and the question of growth, a few years ago there was a feeling that the #Fediverse development culture was running on leftovers. Social movements arrived in waves, and many feared that more waves was moving into #mainstreaming. Since then, the Fediverse has grown, with more people knowing about decentralised social media, more organisations paying attention. Ideas that once lived mostly in activist and technical circles have moved closer to wider adoption.

But growth always creates a question – What happens when a movement becomes successful enough that the surrounding culture starts changing it? The early #openweb was built around different assumptions – People have agency – Communities shape their own spaces – Experimentation matters more than optimisation – Trust matters more than control and Commons matter more than platforms. #Mainstreaming brings pressures, these are not automatically bad. But there is a danger that the technology scales while the culture that created it gets diluted. Federation is a technical idea. Living commons is a social one, the challenge remains – now do we grow without losing the roots?

The narrow lesson from #FOSS – it is one of the greatest successes of the #openweb era. Without it there would be no Linux, no Apache, no Firefox, no Wikipedia-scale infrastructure and no Fediverse ecosystem as we know it. It has created extraordinary shared value, but success should not stop us asking difficult questions. The question is not whether FOSS works, the question is – Who does it work for? Where does it struggle? What social lessons can we learn? One recurring problem is the idea that open source is simply a marketplace of independent individuals.

When building the future we actually want – The question is not whether we use AI, more It’s whether we allow the same old #dotcons logic to shape every new technology. The future depends on whether tools strengthen human networks or replace them. Whether they support commons or enclosure, whether they increase agency or dependency.

But what we are seeing is that the tools we need most are often the first things stressed, messy and elitist systems try to defund, discredit and dismantle. Why? Because they require uncertainty, require questioning assumptions, require admitting complexity. Those are not weaknesses, they are survival tools.

Keep this in mind on native #openweb paths.

@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.

#OMN #4opens #Fediverse #openweb #indymediaback #OGB

@skaphle @chrisstoecker Mir bislang auch noch nicht, was sehr für #Mastodon und das #Fediverse spricht. 😊

A red warning for extreme heat has been issued across parts of the UK this week, including London. For people this heatwave across Europe feels frightening, not because of the temperatures themselves, but of what they imply. Nights stay hot, bodies don’t recover, systems don’t cool down. The baseline is shifting. The question that keeps coming up is simple and unavoidable – if this is what it’s like now, what is it like in 10, 20, 30 years? The answer is not uncertain, it is more heat, more extremes, more instability. There is no “new normal” coming, there is only escalating #climatechaos.

A #deathcult sect for the last 40 years was not built to survive itself, we are seeing this now, the infrastructure is failing. Hospitals, transport systems, housing, food networks – all were built for a climate that no longer exists. Even basic adaptation like cooling is uneven, fragile, and socially unequal. Some workplaces fail under heat stress. Some people have no protection at all. And crucially, we are still not adapting at the scale required.

The UK Climate Change Committee has already said it clearly, adaptation is too slow, stalled, or moving in the wrong direction. That is not a warning about the future, it is a #KISS description of failure in the present. The denial loop over the last 20 years is why we are in such a mess, the pattern is now obvious:

• Scientists warn
• Media briefly reports
• Heat passes
• Politics resets to “normal”
• Nothing changes

This cycle repeats while emissions continue and global temperatures rise toward 2–3°C and beyond this century. But bland media coverage hides the issues of extremes – heatwaves, floods, droughts, system shocks. And those are already exceeding earlier projections in many regions. Timid climate models underestimating reality due to feedback loops, jet stream disruption, aerosol reduction effects, and regional amplification. We are not just entering a warmer world, we are entering a more unstable one.

Knock-on effects are the real ongoing crisis, the danger is not only heat, it is cascading system failure:

• food production under stress
• rising prices and political instability
• insurance withdrawal from entire regions
• economic shocks from simultaneous disasters
• infrastructure collapse under compounding extremes

This will obviously trigger the most severe global financial instability in modern history. And then there are the wildcard risks – #WAMOC weakening or collapse, Amazon dieback leading to abrupt regional climate shifts. It is not just science fiction, they are known systemic risks inside a destabilising ecological earth system.

One thing we need to talk about and be more clear on is #climatechaos is #classwar. This mess is not experienced equally, the rich (most of the #nastyfew) up to a point when they die of old age can adapt individually, with industrial air conditioning, private infrastructure, relocation options to second homes in safer climates. While everyone else absorbs the breakdown of overheated housing, unsafe work conditions, failing public services and the resulting rising costs of survival.

This is why #climatechaos is also a strong class issue, the crisis is not just physical, it is political due to the visible distribution of risk and protection. After ten years of warnings, many of us were already naming this:

• the #deathcult logic of endless growth
• the capture of institutions
• the failure of mainstream politics to respond
• the systemic nature of climate breakdown

At the time it was still framed as prediction, now it is reality. The uncomfortable truth is not that we were wrong, it is that nothing meaningful was done at scale. One thing we have learned, that we understand more clearly now is it is not an information problem, it’s a systems’ problem.

• Extraction-based economies cannot easily respond to limits
• Attention-based media cannot communicate slow crisis
• Electoral politics cannot act on long time horizons

So the system produces delay, distraction, and denial even as conditions worsen. There is a strong role of the #dotcons in this mess as the big social media platforms have intensify this failure. They spent the last ten year optimise for outrage, fragmentation, consumption and finally forgetting. Crisis becomes a series of disconnected moments rather than a shared progressive long-term struggle. Each event resets attention to zero, memory does not accumulate. This is not an accident – it is structural.

Why #4opens matters now, becomes more important, not less, this is not the normal #mainstreaming liberal ideology. It is #KISS basic resilience infrastructure, as surviving #climatechaos requires collective intelligence that can persist across time, crises, and institutional failure, we need tecnolagy like the #OMN that can help medate this:

• Closed systems concentrate control.

• Open systems distribute survival capacity.

But under all this the missing layer is meaning, one of the biggest underestimates from the last decade is psychological – people are not only resisting facts, they are defending meaning – belief in control, belief in technological rescue, belief in stability returning. But these #mainstreaming stories no longer match reality, but this denial persists, not because people don’t know, but because they cannot yet replace the blinded liberal stories. This is where change actually happens,not just information, but shared meaning and practice.

What changes now? Ten years ago the message was, stop feeding the system causing the crisis, now the message is build the systems that can survive what is already here. That means:

• commons over enclosure
• cooperation over competition
• open systems over closed platforms
• shared infrastructure over extraction
• long-term memory over constant reset

Q&A

Why use #climatechaos when #ClimateChange already exists? Because language is not neutral.

“Climate change” sounds manageable, a technical adjustment.

“Climate chaos” describes lived instability, cascading breakdown, and systemic disruption.

Use both:

• #ClimateChange for reach
• #climatechaos for reality, and action

The point is not purity of language, its growing commons of action and hashtags are a tool for this.

As we see today, we are not approaching #climatechaos, we are inside it. The urgent question now is whether we can build systems – social, technical, and cultural – that can function while it unfolds or we keep letting things fail.

That is the #OMN challenge, and it is already overdue.

#OMN #climate #4opens #openweb #deathcult #fediverse #KISS #OGB #climatechange

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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A large group of DWeb Camp attendees seated in a circle on a patterned rug inside a white open-sided tent, engaged in a structured group discussion, with a flipchart easel and sunny outdoor landscape visible behind them.

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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.

Zum 10. Geburtstag schenkt @funk, das Jugendangebot von #ARD und @ZDF, sich eine Präsenz im #Fediverse. Was dahintersteckt und wohin die Reise sonst noch gehen soll, verrät Philipp Schild im Interview mit @JanaBallweber (KNA): https://mediummagazin.de/news/beitrag/1312-quot-uns-ist-es-wichtig-in-dieser-kultur-eine-rolle-zu-spielen-quot.html

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Funk im Fediverse "Wir wollen auch ein Stück dazu beitragen, das Henne-Ei-Problem des Fediverse aufzulösen: Es ist zu wenig Content da, deswegen sind wenig Leute da. Und es sind relativ wenige Leute da, deswegen ist wenig Content da." PHILIPP SCHILD Foto: Jana Kay

Hello fellow #ttrpg people! I'm #newhere on this community to really hone in on my love of table-top RPG, so greetings from Australia. Have been playing RPGs since D&D Basic and currently playing #Slugblaster on a Monday night and #Daggerheart on a Wednesday night as GM. Look forward to getting connected in this instance of the #Fediverse. Recently been playing a lot of Blades in the Dark, Mork Borg, CoC and have many more on the hitlist.

Do you think there is still a room for Prismo in fediverse? We have couple of amazing projects already, doing something similar or much more (lemmy and piefed as an examples). Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

#fediverse #fedidev #activitypub

The good, the bad, and the ugly of running a fediverse server for the past four years, from @gfsc.

"Rather than getting mad at Bluesky for taking over the debate, the fediverse needs to look at itself and ask who it’s including, who it’s excluding, and how it can actually become a transformative social network, rather than a technological toy for computer programmers."

https://gfsc.community/why-we-discontinued-our-mastodon-server/

#fediverse #SocialMedia

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.

#OMN #4opens #openweb

@mirabilos @bunbury @rustfoundation

"I'll take 'Large Organizations Not Understanding what the #Fediverse is Comprised Of' for $1,000, Alex!"

(Jeopardy reference, for those not familiar with it. RIP Alex Trebek)

(For the other side of "not in the know," the Fediverse is comprised of #idealists, #anarchists, and peaceful #revolutionaries. That is who we are.)

Still a fave...

#mastodon #fediverse #comics

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Comic of kid asking mom 'Mommy, what is fediverse?" Mom, says "Don't look at them, Ricky. I don't want you influenced by... Oh, god, no!" Next frame has Ricky in pink-tint heart-shaped glasses and festooned with tax-the-rich, environmental, FOSS and other logographics to do with common fediverse causes, saying: "It is too late, mother - I have seen everything."

@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.

@funk Hey, willkommen im #Fediverse bei den coolen Kids! 😎👍

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.

#mastodon #fediverse

@funfacts Dann melde ich mich mal mit:
Zweiter! 😄

Das #Fediverse ist schon eine coole Nummer. 👍

@morpheus Sehr schön, dass Du Deine Videos jetzt auch im #Fediverse veröffentlichst. 👍

@yodabytz why not reboot it with modern tech - would have been growing the #4opens data soup.

#fediverse #indymediaback

@evan

#NGO people lots of them... so please try and balance this for the #Fediverse

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.

#OMN #Fediverse #4opens

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.

#openweb #Fediverse #4opens #KISS

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.

#OMN #openweb #Fediverse #KISS

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.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Inklusion

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.

#4opens #Fediverse #digitalcommons #freespeech #OMN #KISS

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.

#KISS #Fediverse #collectiveaction

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