#commonsnotplatforms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #commonsnotplatforms, aggregated by home.social.
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Getting through this era of collapse with anything humane intact
The discussions on sovereignty at #NGIForum2025 make me wonder: what year are we in? It’s as if we’re rebooting grassroots conversations we’ve had for decades - but without the mess, memory, or movement that gave them meaning in the first place. A breath of clarity came from @renchap, who said it plainly: We need to focus our efforts on funding and supporting public value network infrastructure… THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT. 💪 Absolutely. If that idea resonates with you, try starting […]https://hamishcampbell.com/getting-through-this-era-of-collapse-with-anything-human-left-intact/
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NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense
DRAFT
It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.
Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/