#4opens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #4opens, aggregated by home.social.
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Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
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Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
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Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
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Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
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Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
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"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
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"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
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"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
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"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
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Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
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Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
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Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
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Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
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Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
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We need non-#deathcult #mainstreaming. There are plenty of ideas, but no agreement on which path to take.
I'm into grassroots because I've seen it work locally - and #AP federation gives us a way to try scaling that beyond the local. That's worth trying. #OGB
The problem is that the #geekproblem has been recycling the same tech project ideas for 20 years. So first: stop the pointless #techchurn.
Stop funding things we already have good reasons to think will fail, and put some energy into things we haven't tried yet.
Yes, we don't know if they'll work, that's the point. Not knowing is a much better problem than endlessly repeating failure.
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We need non-#deathcult #mainstreaming. There are plenty of ideas, but no agreement on which path to take.
I'm into grassroots because I've seen it work locally - and #AP federation gives us a way to try scaling that beyond the local. That's worth trying. #OGB
The problem is that the #geekproblem has been recycling the same tech project ideas for 20 years. So first: stop the pointless #techchurn.
Stop funding things we already have good reasons to think will fail, and put some energy into things we haven't tried yet.
Yes, we don't know if they'll work, that's the point. Not knowing is a much better problem than endlessly repeating failure.
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We need non-#deathcult #mainstreaming. There are plenty of ideas, but no agreement on which path to take.
I'm into grassroots because I've seen it work locally - and #AP federation gives us a way to try scaling that beyond the local. That's worth trying. #OGB
The problem is that the #geekproblem has been recycling the same tech project ideas for 20 years. So first: stop the pointless #techchurn.
Stop funding things we already have good reasons to think will fail, and put some energy into things we haven't tried yet.
Yes, we don't know if they'll work, that's the point. Not knowing is a much better problem than endlessly repeating failure.
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We need non-#deathcult #mainstreaming. There are plenty of ideas, but no agreement on which path to take.
I'm into grassroots because I've seen it work locally - and #AP federation gives us a way to try scaling that beyond the local. That's worth trying. #OGB
The problem is that the #geekproblem has been recycling the same tech project ideas for 20 years. So first: stop the pointless #techchurn.
Stop funding things we already have good reasons to think will fail, and put some energy into things we haven't tried yet.
Yes, we don't know if they'll work, that's the point. Not knowing is a much better problem than endlessly repeating failure.
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We need non-#deathcult #mainstreaming. There are plenty of ideas, but no agreement on which path to take.
I'm into grassroots because I've seen it work locally - and #AP federation gives us a way to try scaling that beyond the local. That's worth trying. #OGB
The problem is that the #geekproblem has been recycling the same tech project ideas for 20 years. So first: stop the pointless #techchurn.
Stop funding things we already have good reasons to think will fail, and put some energy into things we haven't tried yet.
Yes, we don't know if they'll work, that's the point. Not knowing is a much better problem than endlessly repeating failure.
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Funding needs to stop feeding pointless #techchurn. That means composting the common sense side of the #geekproblem: the same people, funding loops, fashions and failing approaches reinforcing each other in a circle of decay.
It's hard to keep shoveling this mess because the system keeps reproducing itself. That's why #OMN use composting as the metaphor.
It hasn't worked yet, but composting takes time, and you can't grow anything new while endlessly only feeding the old shit.
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Funding needs to stop feeding pointless #techchurn. That means composting the common sense side of the #geekproblem: the same people, funding loops, fashions and failing approaches reinforcing each other in a circle of decay.
It's hard to keep shoveling this mess because the system keeps reproducing itself. That's why #OMN use composting as the metaphor.
It hasn't worked yet, but composting takes time, and you can't grow anything new while endlessly only feeding the old shit.
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Funding needs to stop feeding pointless #techchurn. That means composting the common sense side of the #geekproblem: the same people, funding loops, fashions and failing approaches reinforcing each other in a circle of decay.
It's hard to keep shoveling this mess because the system keeps reproducing itself. That's why #OMN use composting as the metaphor.
It hasn't worked yet, but composting takes time, and you can't grow anything new while endlessly only feeding the old shit.
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Funding needs to stop feeding pointless #techchurn. That means composting the common sense side of the #geekproblem: the same people, funding loops, fashions and failing approaches reinforcing each other in a circle of decay.
It's hard to keep shoveling this mess because the system keeps reproducing itself. That's why #OMN use composting as the metaphor.
It hasn't worked yet, but composting takes time, and you can't grow anything new while endlessly only feeding the old shit.
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Funding needs to stop feeding pointless #techchurn. That means composting the common sense side of the #geekproblem: the same people, funding loops, fashions and failing approaches reinforcing each other in a circle of decay.
It's hard to keep shoveling this mess because the system keeps reproducing itself. That's why #OMN use composting as the metaphor.
It hasn't worked yet, but composting takes time, and you can't grow anything new while endlessly only feeding the old shit.
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Compost and shit comes to mind, and that's NOT actually a negative statement. Shit is good compost, it's part of the cycle.
The problem with funding is when we keep throwing money at the dieing structures, then wonder why nothing new grows.
We need to compost the old mess so grassroots alternatives have somewhere to grow.
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Compost and shit comes to mind, and that's NOT actually a negative statement. Shit is good compost, it's part of the cycle.
The problem with funding is when we keep throwing money at the dieing structures, then wonder why nothing new grows.
We need to compost the old mess so grassroots alternatives have somewhere to grow.
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Compost and shit comes to mind, and that's NOT actually a negative statement. Shit is good compost, it's part of the cycle.
The problem with funding is when we keep throwing money at the dieing structures, then wonder why nothing new grows.
We need to compost the old mess so grassroots alternatives have somewhere to grow.
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Compost and shit comes to mind, and that's NOT actually a negative statement. Shit is good compost, it's part of the cycle.
The problem with funding is when we keep throwing money at the dieing structures, then wonder why nothing new grows.
We need to compost the old mess so grassroots alternatives have somewhere to grow.
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Compost and shit comes to mind, and that's NOT actually a negative statement. Shit is good compost, it's part of the cycle.
The problem with funding is when we keep throwing money at the dieing structures, then wonder why nothing new grows.
We need to compost the old mess so grassroots alternatives have somewhere to grow.
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Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
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Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
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Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
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Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
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Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently I still do.
Liberals talk about individuals. Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Personal action.
Radical progressives talk about groups. Community action. Collective power. Social change. Structural challenge.
This isn't only different language. It is a different understanding of where power grows, and therefore where change can happen.
If your answer to every social problem is “what should the individual do?”, you're already walking in the wrong path.
Look at the people, groups and structures involved. Ask who is #BLOCKING change - and who has the collective capacity to actually do anything useful.
That's the starting point for #OMN, #OGB and the #4opens.
Stop individualizing systemic problems and start organizing social change.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently I still do.
Liberals talk about individuals. Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Personal action.
Radical progressives talk about groups. Community action. Collective power. Social change. Structural challenge.
This isn't only different language. It is a different understanding of where power grows, and therefore where change can happen.
If your answer to every social problem is “what should the individual do?”, you're already walking in the wrong path.
Look at the people, groups and structures involved. Ask who is #BLOCKING change - and who has the collective capacity to actually do anything useful.
That's the starting point for #OMN, #OGB and the #4opens.
Stop individualizing systemic problems and start organizing social change.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently I still do.
Liberals talk about individuals. Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Personal action.
Radical progressives talk about groups. Community action. Collective power. Social change. Structural challenge.
This isn't only different language. It is a different understanding of where power grows, and therefore where change can happen.
If your answer to every social problem is “what should the individual do?”, you're already walking in the wrong path.
Look at the people, groups and structures involved. Ask who is #BLOCKING change - and who has the collective capacity to actually do anything useful.
That's the starting point for #OMN, #OGB and the #4opens.
Stop individualizing systemic problems and start organizing social change.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently I still do.
Liberals talk about individuals. Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Personal action.
Radical progressives talk about groups. Community action. Collective power. Social change. Structural challenge.
This isn't only different language. It is a different understanding of where power grows, and therefore where change can happen.
If your answer to every social problem is “what should the individual do?”, you're already walking in the wrong path.
Look at the people, groups and structures involved. Ask who is #BLOCKING change - and who has the collective capacity to actually do anything useful.
That's the starting point for #OMN, #OGB and the #4opens.
Stop individualizing systemic problems and start organizing social change.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently I still do.
Liberals talk about individuals. Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Personal action.
Radical progressives talk about groups. Community action. Collective power. Social change. Structural challenge.
This isn't only different language. It is a different understanding of where power grows, and therefore where change can happen.
If your answer to every social problem is “what should the individual do?”, you're already walking in the wrong path.
Look at the people, groups and structures involved. Ask who is #BLOCKING change - and who has the collective capacity to actually do anything useful.
That's the starting point for #OMN, #OGB and the #4opens.
Stop individualizing systemic problems and start organizing social change.