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Escaping #Microshaft is more hard than it should be.
Its bad enough that they serve #GriftHub, #LinkedIn and are a partner of the CDN giant, #Akamai.
The fact that they also effectively host #DuckDuckGo, should really raise an alarm for any thinking man, woman, child, duck, duck and flipping goose on the planet.
Maybe #DuckCoverRun ought be the colloquialism.
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@itsfoss
Hi and welcome to Fedi,Assuming this is a genuine acct of #ItsFOSS and not an impersonator, your website is Cloudflare (last we checked) tell us if/when you fix the problem and no longer use a CAGEFAM #dotCon. We'll be more likely to subscribe and use your site when good faith is shown.
Cheers.
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EU tech strategy, composting the mess
As #climatechaos accelerates, European politics will not stay where it is now. History suggests that periods of instability push politics to the right, because right-wing politics tends to be driven by fear and control. If that trajectory holds, then the digital infrastructure we build today needs to be resilient in a more hostile political environment tomorrow. This matters for the EU’s current technology strategy. Most policy thinking still focuses on industrial competitiveness - AI […]https://hamishcampbell.com/eu-tech-strategy-composting-the-mess/
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We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: we fucked up the last 20 years of #openweb tech. Not “they” fucked it up. Not only #BigTech, not only venture capital, not only governments and surveillance states. We did, especially those of us who were closest to the tools, the protocols, the decisions - the geeks, developers, architects, and maintainers who shaped how this stuff actually worked in practice. That matters, because it means we still have direct power over what happens next. […]https://hamishcampbell.com/we-fucked-up-and-that-matters-because-we-still-have-agency/
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Composting the#techshit funding
Not surprised. This is probably the 10th time we've applied to the #NLnet / #NGI fund over the years. Just heard back: our proposals for #OGB (Open Governance Body), #indymediaback, and #MakeingHistory were not selected - again. “We are very sorry that we cannot offer you support for your good efforts.” Sure, I, appreciate the polite brush-off again. But after so many rejections for solid, urgently needed tech projects that actually fit the funding goals, it's time to name what's […] -
The development side of #MakingHistory
Building radical alternatives is not just about ideas—it’s about infrastructure. The #makeinghistory project is grounded in the messy, often frustrating work of creating tools that actually function for real communities. We’ve spent decades watching #dotcons centralize power while open projects stumble due to lack of focus, infighting, or simply being too obscure for everyday use.
#Makinghistory means stepping outside the cycle of dead-end open-source projects that never reach real people. We need bridging solutions, funding models outside the #NGO trap, and devs who understand grassroots needs. It’s not about innovation for its own sake, it’s about making the #openweb function better as a lived alternative.
This is where the real fight is. Not in reaction, not in abstraction, but in building tools people can and will use.
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What software do activists need?
The core problem for the last 20 years has been that most activists were locked into #dotcons (corporate social media silos) because open alternatives were either too difficult to use, lack network effects, or fail to meet their practical needs. With the current reboot of the #openweb with the #fedivers based on #ActivityPub has already taken a step away from this mess. Here’s what’s needed from a software development perspective to break out of this mess. Open & accessible publishing […] -
The web wasn’t built by solo tech geniuses, finance firms, or flashy luminaries making illusionary promises. It was built by the time, energy, and collective action of millions of grassroots people working together.
This same collective effort is what will push us into the next era of the #openweb.
For the last 20 years we’re been stuck in the closed, corporate-controlled internet of the #dotcons. This is still a shift towards a more #closedweb which is concerning—it goes against everything the web was meant to be.If we want the #openweb path to grow, we need to embrace the #4opens as tool of collaboration and decentralisation. And by working together on "native" projects like #OMN #IndyMediaBack #OGB #makeinghistory
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The patriarchs of the early #openweb
https://hamishcampbell.com/we-face-a-digital-cliff-the-open-internet-may-be-over/ I wrote this post nearly ten years ago. Back then, we were teetering on the edge of a digital cliff, with the open internet hanging in the balance. There were two insightful perspectives capturing the crossroads we are at: Phil Windley argued that the open internet was a historical fluke, while Dave Winer suggests that what we were seeing was merely the ebb before the next wave of the #openweb arrived.With […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-patriarchs-of-the-early-openweb/
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People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked, and toward a confused mess of branding, #NGO careerism, platform thinking, and endless social noise. https://hamishcampbell.com/what-happened-over-the-last-ten-years-on-our-fediverse-path/ People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, […] -
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked, and toward a confused mess of branding, #NGO careerism, platform thinking, and endless social noise. https://hamishcampbell.com/what-happened-over-the-last-ten-years-on-our-fediverse-path/ People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, […] -
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it's a fair point, but a distraction as these are not stand-alone hot takes, they are all a part of a long flowing story about how we got into this mess and how we might get out of it. So, focus, please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that […] -
People resist visible structure
This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures - because they feel natural, neutral and just “the way […]https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/
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People resist visible structure
This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures - because they feel natural, neutral and just “the way […]https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/
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People resist visible structure
This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures - because they feel natural, neutral and just “the way […]https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/
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People resist visible structure
Freedoms are not given, they are taken.-- Peter Kropotkin This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures […]https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/
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The #OMN is a path to growing an alternative to corporate-controlled platforms (#dotcons), a “public-first” digital commons. Composting the #encryptionist detour https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/
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The #OMN is a path to growing an alternative to corporate-controlled platforms (#dotcons), a “public-first” digital commons. Composting the #encryptionist detour https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/
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The #OMN is a path to growing an alternative to corporate-controlled platforms (#dotcons), a “public-first” digital commons. Composting the #encryptionist detour https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/
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The #OMN is a path to growing an alternative to corporate-controlled platforms (#dotcons), a “public-first” digital commons. Composting the #encryptionist detour https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/
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The #encryptionist detour
Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the […] -
The #encryptionist detour
Let’s be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the real harms of our worship of the (same […] -
The #encryptionist detour
Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the […] -
The #encryptionist detour
Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the […] -
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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Scale changes everything
Human behaviour does not stay the same as groups grow. The instincts that helped small tribes survive - loyalty, signalling belonging, defending boundaries, competing for status, consolidating influence - functioned well within natural limits. In small groups, feedback was immediate. Consequences were visible. Power was constrained by proximity and material reality. But when those same instincts operate at contemporary social scale - inside complex technological societies, or even something […] -
The tension that’s pushed back into the fediverse the last few years
DRAFT Scale changes everything as human behaviour does not stay the same as groups scale. The instincts that helped small tribes survive - loyalty, signalling belonging, defending boundaries, competing for status, consolidating influence - functioned well within natural limits. In small groups, feedback was immediate. Consequences were visible. Power was constrained by proximity and material reality. But when those same instincts operate at contempery social scale, inside complex […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-real-tension-thats-pushed-back-into-the-fediverse-the-last-few-years/
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Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell
A bunch of native #openweb people spent real time, energy, and focus pushing the #EU toward the #Fediverse. This wasn’t theoretical, it wasn’t speculative, it wasn’t a #NGO whitepaper or a #VC funding pitch. It was practical outreach, grounded in working technology and lived experience, aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on centralized corporate platforms. One concrete moment of this work was the webinar organised between the European Commission and the ActivityPub community: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/europe-the-fediverse-and-the-story-we-failed-to-tell/