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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dotcons, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The networks we use shape who we are – and the networks we are given by #dotcons are designed to make us spectators. Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle hamishcampbell.com/real-commun

  2. The networks we use shape who we are – and the networks we are given by #dotcons are designed to make us spectators. Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle hamishcampbell.com/real-commun

  3. The networks we use shape who we are – and the networks we are given by #dotcons are designed to make us spectators. Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle hamishcampbell.com/real-commun

  4. The networks we use shape who we are – and the networks we are given by #dotcons are designed to make us spectators. Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle hamishcampbell.com/real-commun

  5. The networks we use shape who we are – and the networks we are given by #dotcons are designed to make us spectators. Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle hamishcampbell.com/real-commun

  6. Compost “digital sovereignty”, build working commons

    The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple - Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the #EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same […]

    hamishcampbell.com/just-build-

  7. Compost “digital sovereignty” build working commons

    The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple - Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the #EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same […]

    hamishcampbell.com/just-build-

  8. Compost “digital sovereignty” build working commons

    The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple - Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the #EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same […]

    hamishcampbell.com/just-build-

  9. Compost “digital sovereignty” build working commons

    The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple - Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the #EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same […]

    hamishcampbell.com/just-build-

  10. Sophists – From Ancient Greece to the current #mainstreaming

    “Being in #Oxford today, I popped into the #OxfordUnion to use a room. Glancing through the term card, it’s absolutely vile - and has been consistently so for the two years I’ve been back in the city. It’s a useful, if deeply dispiriting, exercise in reading the people and place. This is where parts of the next ruling class form their opinions and sharpen their instincts. Judging by what they’re platforming, we are not heading for a good time...” One useful term about this mess […]

    hamishcampbell.com/sophists-fr

  11. Sophists – From Ancient Greece to the current #mainstreaming

    “Being in #Oxford today, I popped into the #OxfordUnion to use a room. Glancing through the term card, it’s absolutely vile - and has been consistently so for the two years I’ve been back in the city. It’s a useful, if deeply dispiriting, exercise in reading the people and place. This is where parts of the next ruling class form their opinions and sharpen their instincts. Judging by what they’re platforming, we are not heading for a good time...” One useful term about this mess […]

    hamishcampbell.com/sophists-fr

  12. Sophists – From Ancient Greece to the current #mainstreaming

    “Being in #Oxford today, I popped into the #OxfordUnion to use a room. Glancing through the term card, it’s absolutely vile - and has been consistently so for the two years I’ve been back in the city. It’s a useful, if deeply dispiriting, exercise in reading the people and place. This is where parts of the next ruling class form their opinions and sharpen their instincts. Judging by what they’re platforming, we are not heading for a good time...” One useful term about this mess […]

    hamishcampbell.com/sophists-fr

  13. The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters

    The pattern we need to compost - You write something rooted in years of experience and practical work, you try to make it accessible. Someone responds immediately with an objection that shows they haven’t read let alone followed the argument yet. Or they react to the tone, the hashtag, or one phrase instead of engaging with the substance. Sometimes the response is sincere but rushed, sometimes it’s performative, often it’s shaped by the habits we’ve absorbed from #dotcons culture, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-exhaust

  14. The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters

    The pattern we need to compost - You write something rooted in years of experience and practical work, you try to make it accessible. Someone responds immediately with an objection that shows they haven’t read let alone followed the argument yet. Or they react to the tone, the hashtag, or one phrase instead of engaging with the substance. Sometimes the response is sincere but rushed, sometimes it’s performative, often it’s shaped by the habits we’ve absorbed from #dotcons culture, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-exhaust

  15. The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters

    The pattern we need to compost - You write something rooted in years of experience and practical work, you try to make it accessible. Someone responds immediately with an objection that shows they haven’t read let alone followed the argument yet. Or they react to the tone, the hashtag, or one phrase instead of engaging with the substance. Sometimes the response is sincere but rushed, sometimes it’s performative, often it’s shaped by the habits we’ve absorbed from #dotcons culture, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-exhaust

  16. The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters

    The pattern we need to compost - You write something rooted in years of experience and practical work, you try to make it accessible. Someone responds immediately with an objection that shows they haven’t read let alone followed the argument yet. Or they react to the tone, the hashtag, or one phrase instead of engaging with the substance. Sometimes the response is sincere but rushed, sometimes it’s performative, often it’s shaped by the habits we’ve absorbed from #dotcons culture, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-exhaust

  17. The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters

    The pattern we need to compost - You write something rooted in years of experience and practical work, you try to make it accessible. Someone responds immediately with an objection that shows they haven’t read let alone followed the argument yet. Or they react to the tone, the hashtag, or one phrase instead of engaging with the substance. Sometimes the response is sincere but rushed, sometimes it’s performative, often it’s shaped by the habits we’ve absorbed from #dotcons culture, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-exhaust

  18. Composting the mess of digital security in activism – We need to talk about this, offline

    The online tools we "common sense" rely on for organising and campaigning are genuinely dangerous, and I find that paralysing. This isn't paranoia, it's a practical reality that urgently needs addressing. Until we do, offline working groups are one of the few reliable ways to unblock the mess. Where we actually are now... Disappearing, encrypted chat outside the #dotcons is one of the few spaces that feels even marginally safe. But even then, safety depends entirely on who's in the room, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/composting-

  19. Composting the mess of digital security in activism – We need to talk about this, offline

    The online tools we "common sense" rely on for organising and campaigning are genuinely dangerous, and I find that paralysing. This isn't paranoia, it's a practical reality that urgently needs addressing. Until we do, offline working groups are one of the few reliable ways to unblock the mess. Where we actually are now... Disappearing, encrypted chat outside the #dotcons is one of the few spaces that feels even marginally safe. But even then, safety depends entirely on who's in the room, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/composting-

  20. Composting the mess of digital security in activism – We need to talk about this, offline

    The online tools we "common sense" rely on for organising and campaigning are genuinely dangerous, and I find that paralysing. This isn't paranoia, it's a practical reality that urgently needs addressing. Until we do, offline working groups are one of the few reliable ways to unblock the mess. Where we actually are now... Disappearing, encrypted chat outside the #dotcons is one of the few spaces that feels even marginally safe. But even then, safety depends entirely on who's in the room, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/composting-

  21. It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-

  22. It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-

  23. It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-

  24. It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-

  25. It’s past time to compost this “common sense” and grow something better. Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons hamishcampbell.com/criticisms-

  26. @adb @hpod16 @EUCommission @witchescauldron

    If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU

  27. @adb @hpod16 @EUCommission @witchescauldron

    If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU

  28. @adb @hpod16 @EUCommission @witchescauldron

    If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU

  29. @adb @hpod16 @EUCommission @witchescauldron

    If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU

  30. @adb @hpod16 @EUCommission @witchescauldron

    If the #EU does not make the move interaction here will drop away, and they will be left to the #dotcons trolls and the algorithm.... it's then more mess they need to compost.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=EU

  31. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-ask-

  32. 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, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-ask-

  33. 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, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-ask-

  34. 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, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-ask-

  35. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-ask-

  36. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

    You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  37. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

    You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  38. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

    This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  39. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

    This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  40. A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

    You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-vie

  41. Post on composting the #dotcons mess terrygodier.com/the-boring-int and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.

  42. Post on composting the #dotcons mess terrygodier.com/the-boring-int and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.

  43. Post on composting the #dotcons mess terrygodier.com/the-boring-int and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.

  44. Post on composting the #dotcons mess terrygodier.com/the-boring-int and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.

  45. Post on composting the #dotcons mess terrygodier.com/the-boring-int and how the world is still kinda run by #4opens native internet, yes its messy but its also real and human.

  46. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-resi

  47. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-resi

  48. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-resi

  49. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-resi

  50. 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 […]

    hamishcampbell.com/people-resi