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The Problem Was Never Just the Platforms – It’s What We Build Instead
For years, the #fashionista #openweb conversation has been stuck in a loop of naming villains: surveillance capitalism, the #dotcons, Zuckerberg, Musk, “the algorithm.” But focusing on enemies only gets you so far. The creative question isn’t what we’re against - it’s what we’re actually building together to replace it. That’s where the #OMN takes a useful path. Yes, the big platforms absorb resistance, repackage it, and sell it back to us, that cycle is real. But pointing it […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-problem-was-never-just-the-platforms-its-what-we-build-instead/
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The Problem Was Never Just the Platforms – It’s What We Build Instead
For years, the #fashionista #openweb conversation has been stuck in a loop of naming villains: surveillance capitalism, the #dotcons, Zuckerberg, Musk, “the algorithm.” But focusing on enemies only gets you so far. The creative question isn’t what we’re against - it’s what we’re actually building together to replace it. That’s where the #OMN takes a useful path. Yes, the big platforms absorb resistance, repackage it, and sell it back to us, that cycle is real. But pointing it […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-problem-was-never-just-the-platforms-its-what-we-build-instead/
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The for-profit platforms, underpinned by neoliberal ideology, drives much of the dysfunction we see - both in society and within tech itself. Life “inside the #dotcons” means participating, often uncritically, in reinforcing #stupidindividualism. Moving beyond this requires building alternatives grounded in the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards, and open processes. Projects like #OMN point in this direction.
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The for-profit platforms, underpinned by neoliberal ideology, drives much of the dysfunction we see - both in society and within tech itself. Life “inside the #dotcons” means participating, often uncritically, in reinforcing #stupidindividualism. Moving beyond this requires building alternatives grounded in the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards, and open processes. Projects like #OMN point in this direction.
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Tribalism in tech is both productive and destructive. At its best, it drives innovation and builds strong, purpose-driven communities. At its worst, it leads to fragmentation, gatekeeping, and resistance to collaboration. The comparison to nationalism isn’t accidental - large #dotcons like Facebook and Google now wield power comparable to nation-states, forming their own “tribes” with massive social influence. Tribalism isn’t inherently bad, but when it becomes exclusionary and detached from real-world needs, it turns counterproductive.
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Tribalism in tech is both productive and destructive. At its best, it drives innovation and builds strong, purpose-driven communities. At its worst, it leads to fragmentation, gatekeeping, and resistance to collaboration. The comparison to nationalism isn’t accidental - large #dotcons like Facebook and Google now wield power comparable to nation-states, forming their own “tribes” with massive social influence. Tribalism isn’t inherently bad, but when it becomes exclusionary and detached from real-world needs, it turns counterproductive.
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#dotcons are the corporate platforms - Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube and their kin - whose business model is built on harvesting user data, manufacturing engagement, and converting human attention and community into profit, while presenting themselves as neutral public spaces.
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#dotcons are the corporate platforms - Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube and their kin - whose business model is built on harvesting user data, manufacturing engagement, and converting human attention and community into profit, while presenting themselves as neutral public spaces.
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#blinded refers to being so captured by #mainstreaming tech orthodoxy and ideological "common sense" - particularly #neoliberalism and #dotcons culture - that you no longer see, or refuse to see, the harms those systems cause or any alternative paths that exist outside them.
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Viele Grüße von Lotta. 🐶
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Viele Grüße von Lotta. 🐶
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Viele Grüße von Lotta. 🐶
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⛔️⚠️Ukraine condemns World Aquatics' and its criminally indicted director Husain Al-Musallam’s (Charged in FIFA bribery scandal in 2017) decision to allow Russian and Belarusian terrorists to play games while murdering civilians (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/14/8030035/ #Ukraine #WorldAquatics #InvestigateHusainAlMusallam #Kuwait #Press #Media #FIFA #News #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
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The mess we made with the #dotcons https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-made-with-the-dotcons/ Balancing this mess we made requires continuing efforts to promote decentralization, #4opens and “native” #openweb culture and infrastructure.
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Jacksonville Jaguars Draft Strategy: Top Second-Round Targets to Bolster Defense in 2026 https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/814546/ #DomoniqueOrange #Football #Jacksonville #JacksonvilleJaguars #JacksonvilleJaguars #Jaguars #JamesGladstone #NFL #NflDraft #ZakeeWheatley
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The #dotcons assume you want to be a techbro
One of the quiet assumptions built into almost every #dotcons platform is that the user secretly wants to become a #techbro. Not literally, of course, but culturally. You are expected to optimise yourself by building your “personal brand” to track your metrics. Engage with algorithmic growth loops by understand platforms, feeds, APIs, monetisation tools, creator dashboards. You’re supposed to treat communication as a kind of performance engineering problem. Most people never asked for […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-assume-you-want-to-be-a-techbro/
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A good first step to this is in balancing the realisation that we actually have far more direct power to deal with the internal mess than we do over the external #dotcons and their #closedweb “common sense” colonialisation. Compost the blocking, keep the seeds alive, and make space for growth https://hamishcampbell.com/compost-the-blocking-keep-the-seeds-alive-and-make-space-for-growth/
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#dogcontent meets #librarycontent: "Aktive Lernpause mit Pfötchen" in der SLUB Dresden! 📚🐶🐾📚
https://www.slub-dresden.de/besuchen/arbeitsplaetze-arbeitsraeume/aktive-lernpause-mit-pfoetchen -
Radical Reductions in Inequality
The current #dotcons economy is not neutral, it is designed to centralise control in the interest of the #nastyfew, platform owners, server landlords, data hoarders. These are the financial intermediaries who extract value without producing social good, this is not an accident or a side effect, it is the business model. We are told that inequality is the natural outcome of innovation, talent, and efficiency. In reality, it is engineered through enclosure. Digital infrastructure that could […]https://hamishcampbell.com/radical-reductions-in-inequality/
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Very much looking forward to this Saturday's concert! #domcantorij
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I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
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I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
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I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
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I wrote this a few years a go: It’s worth clearing up what often feels like wilful misunderstanding.
When I talk about “steping away” from the #dotcons ecosystem, I don’t mean disappearing overnight or taking a purity exit. I mean one foot in and one foot out, staying present long enough to help others take the step as well.
That’s an ethical position, not a compromise.
Walking away completely leaves people isolated inside systems designed to trap them. Staying entirely inside normalises the harm. The #stepaway path holds both realities at once: reduce harm, refuse total capture, and keep doors open.
This isn’t about personal virtue or moral superiority. It’s about collective exit, done slowly, visibly, and with care. You don’t abandon people in a burning building - you help them find the exits.
That’s the work #OMN
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Rats Get even Better at Playing DOOM https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/rats-get-even-better-at-playing-doom/ #doomcontroller #classichacks #WillItDoom? #DoomRat #Games #doom
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Unser Nachbarshund kam mal wieder zu uns gerannt und ist gleich Richtung Küche abgebogen.
Kann man bei diesem Blick ein paar Hundeleckerli verwehren?
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Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network (#OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
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So in 7 Stunden kommt die Hündin Coco. Also freut euch auf eine Woche #DogContent :-)
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Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.