#boatingeurope — Public Fediverse posts

Interesting look at what we do with our new lifeboat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDBbQhUuMjU do we do outriggers, would give more space for solar and stability #boatingeurope

https://youtu.be/t8IrvBGO00c

A litter pick on the Oxford waterways, good company, good work, good reason to get involved.

https://opencollective.com/oxfordboaters

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#boatingeurope a litter pick and forest rubbish clearance https://opencollective.com/oxfordboaters/updates/press-release-01 #oxford

Saturday afternoon, picnic at tree circle. It's hot and little wind, need to christen the space #Oxford #boatingeurope

Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb

https://hamishcampbell.com/disappearing-from-search-a-personal-story-about-visibility-dotcons-and-the-shrinking-openweb/

It's getting time for new #boatingeurope adventures https://www.patreon.com/boatingeurope

@warmsignull That's kinda funny after this long thread... it's the old chicken-and-egg problem https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=chicken+and+egg+ worth a read of some of these linked articles, to slow the circling.

The is always stuff going on, it's a full-time unpaid job - I put the effort and focus in so I can work on this path #boatingeurope

@bee we use #boatingeurope for our adventures. But now on the #Thames, so maybe river or canal or city based?

#Boating #oxford #boatingoxford

The #OMN is a simple project

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/

@sunseeker27 #Waketime #boatingeurope #Boating #SummerTime

The path I walk, and advocate for, is rooted in a few simple but powerful #KISS principles: a return to grassroots governance, a focus on community-driven technology, and the composting of failed ideas to nurture new growth. To enable this shift, we must develop tools and frameworks that uphold transparency, empower collective action, and center sustainable, open alternatives. This means pushing back against the dominant #mainstreaming narrative and embracing practical, grounded methods of building from the bottom up. You can see some of this in action at unite.openworlds.info.

I remain deeply critical of the role of #NGOs and the broader mainstreaming strategies that dilute radical potential. Too often, projects that begin with genuine grassroots energy are co-opted through institutional funding and pressure to conform. This turns them into vehicles for maintaining the status quo rather than challenging it. To reclaim our agency and resist this corruption, we need to re-center on the #4opens, prioritize collective and direct action, and build resilient alternatives to the #deathcult of neoliberalism. My critique comes from long experience with radical media and open tech — from #Indymedia and #OMN to the #Fediverse and ActivityPub. Learn more at hamishcampbell.com.

My #boatingeurope life reflects a more sustainable, #DIY lifestyle — an attempt to live "native" to the rhythms of nature rather than the chaos of the #deathcult. A decade ago, after 20 years campaigning on climate and ecological collapse, I sailed away in a literal lifeboat, escaping burnout and disillusionment. But the world is round — and I’ve since returned to re-engage with tech activism and grassroots media, because retreat alone won’t solve systemic issues. Bridging the divide between alternative cultures and the mainstream remains vital. Yet this is often blocked by both sides — the mainstream demands conformity, while alt-paths refuse to compromise. Without building bridges, we risk further stagnation. It's time to find common ground without losing our roots.

#hamishcampbell
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We have a floor, thinking of putting lino on it #boatingeurope

#boatingeurope videos on our last voyage are here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecb5l4wzWgU&list=PLHddF09QsCqgM4td8GygJA8Ty7eEHKg6g

Talk on in Oxford #boatingeurope

Talk next week on #boatingeurope in Oxford

Early #boatingeurope adventures in the fog. Plan from the Medway to Central London hamishcampbell.com/plan-from-th...

Plan from the Medway to Centra...

Early #boatingeurope adventures in the fog. Plan from the Medway to Central London https://hamishcampbell.com/plan-from-the-medway-to-central-london/

Biography

https://hamishcampbell.com/biography/

Boatingeurope talk

In a boat, you need to go where the water flows – and this is the second big root in Europe. Done the first all ready. This will be update next few weeks.

#boatingeurope #lifeboat

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#Boatingeurope life

Xmas time for #boatingeurope this is for the new boat Volga.

Berlin #boatingeurope life a few years ago

#boatingeurope sitting in the Medway mud many years ago

Early days of #boatingeurope

The new boat has arrived, safely moored up next to old boat Milda X Volga for the next #boatingeurope adventure.

Fun and games in the fog #boatingeurope from the early days https://hamishcampbell.com/plan-from-the-medway-to-central-london/

#boatingeurope we have a new home heading south on a truck arrives tomorrow

#BoatingEurope captures the experience of living aboard in Europe. It is a practical exploration of self-sufficiency, minimalism, and ecological sustainability, which ties into the broader political work of challenging the mess we are in.

The project highlights the importance of living closer to nature, away from the consumer-driven paths that fuel the #deathcult, and experiencing more radical, hands-on approaches to escape and resist the damaging social and environmental mess.

The path I am advocating is rooted in a few core principles: a return to grassroots governance, prioritizing community-driven technology, and composting failed ideas for new growth. To enable this, we need to develop tools and frameworks that uphold transparency, empower collective action, and keep the focus on sustainable, open alternatives.

https://unite.openworlds.info

I believe to try and balance much of the current mess, people should focus on grassroots activism and building alternative systems to combat the current social, ecological, and technological mess. With a strong emphasis on open processes (#4opens), fostering collective action, to challenge the #neoliberal status quo (#deathcult) through direct engagement, rebooting independent media, and creating sustainable, community-driven alternatives to #mainstreaming structures. The path is to reclaim agency and work toward positive, systemic change from the grassroots up.

You can explore more at https://hamishcampbell.com

I am thus critical of #NGOs and #mainstreaming paths, as they often compromise their radical potential by seeking funding and approval from larger institutions and establishment hierarchies. This to oftern leads to co-optation and dilution of grassroots values of “native” paths, turning them into tools for maintaining the status quo rather than challenging it. We need to actively resist this corruption and ensuring that alternative, community-driven projects can thrive without becoming fatally entangled in mainstreaming mess.

Read more at https://hamishcampbell.com

I have extensive experience navigating radical activism and grassroots media projects. Having been involved in open technology movements, such as #Indymedia and #OMN (Open Media Network) and more recently the Fediverse and ActivityPub movement, emphasizing trust-based, DIY approaches. Thus, the critique of the #NGO sector for undermining radical efforts through the influence of funding and institutionalization, having witnessed how NGO paths often lead to stagnation or failure. In reaction to this, the creating and championing of decentralized solutions that remain faithful to their grassroots origins while resisting co-optation by the #mainstreaming.

For more details, visit hamishcampbell.com.

My #boatingeurope life reflects a life outside the #mainstreaming, a simpler”native” more sustainable #DIY lifestyle, away from the chaos of every day #deathcult worship. Living on the water is a metaphor for self-reliance, resilience, and independence, while offering life connected with nature. The lifeboat is a metaphor for #climatechaos, I sailed away ten years ago, after campaigning agenst #climatchange and ecological destruction for 20 years, continuing the path to live outside conventional structures, a little away from the stress of activism. However, the world is round, so have since returned, re-engaging with tech activism, a remainder that retreat won’t solve the broader systemic issues facing the world and the people that live in it

For more details, visit https://www.youtube.com/@BoatingEurope

I see a core tension between alternative cultures and the mainstream: the mainstream demands that alternative cultures conform in order to be effective, while the alt paths intentionally resist this push, aiming to remain distinct and radical. This clash creates a deeper issue—#mainstreaming voices tend to block and reject the need for a bridge between these two spaces. The failure to recognize the importance of building such bridges leads to division and stagnation, perpetuating the current social and political mess. The root problem lies in “common sense” blocking and an intolerance toward the very idea of bridging these divergent paths, hindering progress from both sides.

#hamishcampbell

https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/hcampbell

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-i-think/

#boatingeurope #climatchange #climatechaos #deathcult #diy #hamishcampbell #indymedia #mainstreaming #neoliberal #NGO #NGOs #OMN

Morning view #frontwindow #boatingeurope

Into another Delta! This time our old friend The Rhine. Between the Netherlands and Belgium. We are that blue dot on the map! #boatingeurope #intothewild #rhinedelta #rhineriver #onthemove #maps #naturereserve #nationaalparkdebiesbosch

What does traveling through central Berlin look like from a lifeboat https://youtu.be/yvodjUDLo2s

#boatingeurope #liveaboards