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  1. Techno feudalism what changes

    There’s a common understanding that we’re living inside a new digital world, that feels like enclosure, where people are "controlled" by platforms they can’t easily leave, where behaviour is shaped at scale, and where #AI intensifies this mess. That’s why #fashernista terms like #technofeudalism are being used to argue that we’ve moved beyond capitalism into something different - a system based not primarily on profit, but on rent extraction through “cloud capital.” In this […]

    hamishcampbell.com/techno-feud

  2. Techno feudalism what changes

    There’s a common understanding that we’re living inside a new digital world, that feels like enclosure, where people are "controlled" by platforms they can’t easily leave, where behaviour is shaped at scale, and where #AI intensifies this mess. That’s why #fashernista terms like #technofeudalism are being used to argue that we’ve moved beyond capitalism into something different - a system based not primarily on profit, but on rent extraction through “cloud capital.” In this […]

    hamishcampbell.com/techno-feud

  3. Best not to keep feeding the churn. It's #KISS #openweb and #closedweb. The rest is #fashernista guff that'll need composting when the next buzzwords arrive in a year or two.

    Keep it simple. #KISS

    #OMN #techshit #nothingnew

  4. Best not to keep feeding the churn. It's #KISS #openweb and #closedweb. The rest is #fashernista guff that'll need composting when the next buzzwords arrive in a year or two.

    Keep it simple. #KISS

    #OMN #techshit #nothingnew

  5. The early #openweb grew from a #DIY culture. People did not wait for permission. They built websites, shared code, created independent media, made tools, organised communities and experimented with new ways of communicating.

    The power was not just in the technology. It was in the surrounding culture:

    Do it yourself.
    Share what you learn.
    Build with others.

    The problem is that DIY can stop at the first step. A lot of radical spaces become focused on identity, aesthetics and scene-building - the #fashernista layer - while missing the second part - Organisation.

    The challenge is creating structures that survive. The #OMN idea is about reconnecting these two things: DIY + organisation.

    The creativity of the #openweb with the practical need to build networks, memory, trust and shared infrastructure.

    A living commons, the future needs people who make things, maintain things and connect things. The internet was never just about tools. It was about people building together.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #fediverse #DIY #indymediaback

  6. The early #openweb grew from a #DIY culture. People did not wait for permission. They built websites, shared code, created independent media, made tools, organised communities and experimented with new ways of communicating.

    The power was not just in the technology. It was in the surrounding culture:

    Do it yourself.
    Share what you learn.
    Build with others.

    The problem is that DIY can stop at the first step. A lot of radical spaces become focused on identity, aesthetics and scene-building - the #fashernista layer - while missing the second part - Organisation.

    The challenge is creating structures that survive. The #OMN idea is about reconnecting these two things: DIY + organisation.

    The creativity of the #openweb with the practical need to build networks, memory, trust and shared infrastructure.

    A living commons, the future needs people who make things, maintain things and connect things. The internet was never just about tools. It was about people building together.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #fediverse #DIY #indymediaback

  7. Worshipping the #deathcult is strangely normal even inside our “alternative” tech spaces.

    Look at how we talk about horizontal #openweb projects. The branding itself pulls us back into the same patterns: building identities around products, personalities and platforms instead of the commons and the wider movement.

    #Mastodon, #PeerTube and the use of the term #Fediverse become part of this #fashernista cycle - chasing labels and recognition while avoiding or forgetting the deeper social change these tools were meant to support.

    At the #OMN we use #openweb as the bigger frame. The projects are important, but they should sit as links within a wider ecosystem, not become the whole story.

    The path is not another brand. The path is a living, diverse, decentralised movement for change and challenge.

    Time to stop looking down at the floor, get up and build the commons.

    #OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #deathcult

  8. Worshipping the #deathcult is strangely normal even inside our “alternative” tech spaces.

    Look at how we talk about horizontal #openweb projects. The branding itself pulls us back into the same patterns: building identities around products, personalities and platforms instead of the commons and the wider movement.

    #Mastodon, #PeerTube and the use of the term #Fediverse become part of this #fashernista cycle - chasing labels and recognition while avoiding or forgetting the deeper social change these tools were meant to support.

    At the #OMN we use #openweb as the bigger frame. The projects are important, but they should sit as links within a wider ecosystem, not become the whole story.

    The path is not another brand. The path is a living, diverse, decentralised movement for change and challenge.

    Time to stop looking down at the floor, get up and build the commons.

    #OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #deathcult

  9. Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

    This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]

    hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-re

  10. Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

    This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]

    hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-re

  11. #OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

    #techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

    hamishcampbell.com/omn-groundi

  12. #OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

    #techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

    hamishcampbell.com/omn-groundi

  13. #fashernista describes a person in progressive or radical spaces who prioritises the appearance and aesthetic of activism — the right look, language, and social positioning - over the unglamorous, difficult work of actually building lasting structural change.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=fashioni

  14. #fashernista describes a person in progressive or radical spaces who prioritises the appearance and aesthetic of activism — the right look, language, and social positioning - over the unglamorous, difficult work of actually building lasting structural change.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=fashioni

  15. Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product)

    https://hamishcampbell.com/news-culture-on-the-fediverse/ It should be obvious that we need a path back to good journalism - journalism that sheds light on facts, connects the dots, and lets people trace those dots back to sources. This is what allows us to share, question, and discuss within our own trusted communities, and then spread that knowledge outward through federation, always linking back to the source. Right now, the #mainstreaming path is broken. It’s sometimes hard for people […]

    hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-

  16. Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product)

    https://hamishcampbell.com/news-culture-on-the-fediverse/ It should be obvious that we need a path back to good journalism - journalism that sheds light on facts, connects the dots, and lets people trace those dots back to sources. This is what allows us to share, question, and discuss within our own trusted communities, and then spread that knowledge outward through federation, always linking back to the source. Right now, the #mainstreaming path is broken. It’s sometimes hard for people […]

    hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-

  17. Policy churn, selective memory, and the mess on repeat

    There’s a familiar pattern in foreign policy debates: outrage at the current regime, amnesia about how it got there. Yes, the current government of #Iran is repressive. It crushes dissent, restricts freedoms, and enforces authoritarian rule. None of that needs soft-pedalling, but if we’re at all serious about understanding the world - rather than just reacting to #fashernista headlines - we also have to look at how situation came to be. In 1953, the democratically elected Prime Minister […]

    hamishcampbell.com/policy-chur

  18. This message is a shovel

    Ten years ago - and honestly long before that - there were endless conversations on #failbook about how useful it was for campaigning. The dominant view back then was simple: it’s just cat memes, it's just tooling, it isn’t political so we can use it harmlessly. Before Snowden, this wasn’t a fringe view - it was probably a 90% consensus, especially among activists, and #fashionista tech communities. I’m not pointing fingers here, as this was normal. Many of us - including friends and […]

    hamishcampbell.com/this-messag

  19. This message is a shovel

    Ten years ago - and honestly long before that - there were endless conversations on #failbook about how useful it was for campaigning. The dominant view back then was simple: it’s just cat memes, it's just tooling, it isn’t political so we can use it harmlessly. Before Snowden, this wasn’t a fringe view - it was probably a 90% consensus, especially among activists, and #fashionista tech communities. I’m not pointing fingers here, as this was normal. Many of us - including friends and […]

    hamishcampbell.com/this-messag

  20. The uncomfortable path

    The individual, their freedom, and their capacity for reason are products of social relationships, not independent origins. Society is not built from isolated individuals; individuals arise from shared culture, history, and collective life. As society grows richer and more humane, individuals gain the conditions needed for deeper development and freedom emerges from this shared foundation. What’s really at stake is power. The shift has to be away from private ownership and toward the […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-uncomfo

  21. The uncomfortable path

    The individual, their freedom, and their capacity for reason are products of social relationships, not independent origins. Society is not built from isolated individuals; individuals arise from shared culture, history, and collective life. As society grows richer and more humane, individuals gain the conditions needed for deeper development and freedom emerges from this shared foundation. What’s really at stake is power. The shift has to be away from private ownership and toward the […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-uncomfo

  22. We use hashtags as scaffolding for the needed social truth, not as slogans, but as scaffolding, lightweight markers that point to recurring structural issues: #geekproblem #fashernista #dotcons #blocking are not insults. They are shorthand for patterns that otherwise take pages to explain. But, without shared context, they are still easily misread as personal attacks. Again we face #blocking.

  23. We use hashtags as scaffolding for the needed social truth, not as slogans, but as scaffolding, lightweight markers that point to recurring structural issues: #geekproblem #fashernista #dotcons #blocking are not insults. They are shorthand for patterns that otherwise take pages to explain. But, without shared context, they are still easily misread as personal attacks. Again we face #blocking.

  24. From personal mess to shared paths, #OMN in the post-truth world

    Consensus matters - but it’s so hard - collective projects, media, activism and infrastructure require a minimum level of agreement about what the problem is. Not total agreement, but enough shared reality to coordinate sustainable action. Without some form of shared external social truth, progressive projects do not move at all, this is not always because people are malicious, but more often because they are no longer standing on any shared ground. This mess, is a problem, as it means […]

    hamishcampbell.com/from-person

  25. 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. […]

    hamishcampbell.com/we-fucked-u

  26. Progressive Mainstreaming

    Most progressive #mainstreaming isn’t about ending the #deathcult - it’s about making its worship feel more fair, more inclusive, more polite. There is some real everyday value in this. Fewer people get crushed immediately, some suffering is reduced, that matters. But let’s be honest about what it does not do, it does not get people off their knees to challenge the altar to stop the sacrifice. It rearranges the seating in the temple, feeding the deeper problem, obedience. Progressive […]

    hamishcampbell.com/progressive

  27. Building, what comes next?

    #mainstreaming people are wilfully blind and alt people tend to be pessimistic, it's a problem. Historically, real social change doesn’t arrive by waiting for collapse. It arrives because people are active, they build alternatives in advance, strong enough to bridge the mess when existing systems fail and lose legitimacy. This isn’t theory. It’s how change has always happened. If you are interested in a better outcome, we need to remember, build first, collapse later is the lesson that […]

    hamishcampbell.com/building-wh

  28. Building, what comes next?

    #mainstreaming people are wilfully blind and alt people tend to be pessimistic, it's a problem. Historically, real social change doesn’t arrive by waiting for collapse. It arrives because people are active, they build alternatives in advance, strong enough to bridge the mess when existing systems fail and lose legitimacy. This isn’t theory. It’s how change has always happened. If you are interested in a better outcome, we need to remember, build first, collapse later is the lesson that […]

    hamishcampbell.com/building-wh

  29. Normal is walking around in a toxic story and calling this common sense

    To step away from the mess you have to recognise the mess. Forty years of hard indoctrination doesn’t just fade away. It has to be dug up, held in our hands, recognised for what it is, and composted. If we don’t do this, we have no hope - none - of moving away from the accelerating mess that’s already killing millions and is on track to kill billions. Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short” isn’t a warning any more; it’s a weather report. Mainstream thinking feels normal because […]

    hamishcampbell.com/normal-is-t

  30. Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p

    Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use. This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]

    hamishcampbell.com/why-the-omn

  31. The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism (#deathcult) and consumer capitalism (#fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web (#openweb) against the for-profit internet (#closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags hamishcampbell.com/serendipity

  32. The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism (#deathcult) and consumer capitalism (#fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web (#openweb) against the for-profit internet (#closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags hamishcampbell.com/serendipity

  33. The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism (#deathcult) and consumer capitalism (#fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web (#openweb) against the for-profit internet (#closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags hamishcampbell.com/serendipity

  34. The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism (#deathcult) and consumer capitalism (#fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web (#openweb) against the for-profit internet (#closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags hamishcampbell.com/serendipity

  35. At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult

    The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet. That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it. We’ve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/at-best-the

  36. At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult

    The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet. That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it. We’ve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/at-best-the

  37. The old #mainstreaming is about building equality in our worship of the #deatcult. This is why #fashernista liberal progressivism
    is always a problem to compos #KISS

    We need to focus on real change and challenge. What does this look like to you?

  38. The old #mainstreaming is about building equality in our worship of the #deatcult. This is why #fashernista liberal progressivism
    is always a problem to compos #KISS

    We need to focus on real change and challenge. What does this look like to you?

  39. #Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.

    #Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.

  40. #Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.

    #Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.

  41. A Tolkien view of #OMN

    A central thesis of Tolkien’s books is that evil provides the means of its own defeat. Sauron forged the One Ring that destroyed him. Shelob impaled herself on Sam’s blade. Smaug exposed his belly to Bilbo and revealed the weak point that brought him down. Tolkien’s world is full of this pattern: the seed of destruction lies buried inside the will to dominate. Power over others always carries its own undoing. But there’s a second truth, less often spoken. Good must still act. The […]

    hamishcampbell.com/a-tolkien-v

  42. The #fashernista cycle feeds on attention, novelty, and the absence of grounding. The antidote is the opposite: trust, continuity, and community memory.

    Stay messy. Stay grounded. Stay real.

  43. The #fashernista cycle feeds on attention, novelty, and the absence of grounding. The antidote is the opposite: trust, continuity, and community memory.

    Stay messy. Stay grounded. Stay real.

  44. The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
    That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.

    They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.

    If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons. Mediation before they move in,
    defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.

    Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #mainstreaming #trust #commons

  45. The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
    That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.

    They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.

    If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons. Mediation before they move in,
    defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.

    Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #mainstreaming #trust #commons

  46. Don’t try to convince them in the abstract. Show them. If a #fashernista sees a space where the shiny stuff grows on top of real soil, they’ll drift toward it. If a #geekproblem sees a tool that’s simple enough to use but still respects their itch for precision, they’ll tinker. The #mainstreamers won’t join until it looks inevitable, but working prototypes shift the gravity.

  47. Don’t try to convince them in the abstract. Show them. If a #fashernista sees a space where the shiny stuff grows on top of real soil, they’ll drift toward it. If a #geekproblem sees a tool that’s simple enough to use but still respects their itch for precision, they’ll tinker. The #mainstreamers won’t join until it looks inevitable, but working prototypes shift the gravity.

  48. The #OMN is a simple project

    It can be hard explane this, as people make the needed change complex, it is not, yes, it's messy and the are no simple answers. So a first step is composting the #techshit: Raw waste → The constant flood of mainstreaming, broken promises of #dotcons, bad-faith #NGO capture, shallow “innovation theatre.” This is the smelly mess we are swimming in. Shovel work → Activists and communities don’t just sit in the mess. We work to turn it over, exposing the rot, adding oxygen. This is […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-

  49. Building Alt/Grassroots Media Networks to Challenge and Widen Traditional Media

    The current ecosystem of alternative and grassroots media is too narrow in its imagination of what media could, and should, be. There’s a persistent naivety or, in some cases, a self-serving dishonesty. Many of the most “successful” progressive media groups continue to mimic #traditionalmedia without understanding, or addressing, the fact that they do not control their distribution. In effect, they’re renting space in someone else’s empire.

    This is not just a mistake. It’s the […]

    hamishcampbell.com/building-al

  50. That’s the filter we need to apply — especially as we face burnout, co-option, and the churn of #fashernista tech that solves nothing. Grassroots Radical Media: A #4opens Path hamishcampbell.com/grassroots-

  51. That’s the filter we need to apply — especially as we face burnout, co-option, and the churn of #fashernista tech that solves nothing. Grassroots Radical Media: A #4opens Path hamishcampbell.com/grassroots-

  52. Interesting to find this project displayeurope.eu/en/vision is an #AI driven version of the #OMN built up by the invisible #fashernista crew - in this it's based on the normal #EU corruption. Now the question is, is it any good? More #techshit or compost - or a native part of the #openweb reboot?

  53. @chrisg @Gina this is not a good post, it's dogmatic liberalism, dressed in #fashernista cloth.

    What would a #4opens space look like, and think mess rather than order, please.

  54. In the #openweb and #Fediverse spaces, it's worth remembering: Many people only value things once they’re validated by #mainstreaming sources. This is narrow, blinded behaviour — the kind that keeps the #deathcult fed.

    If you only see value through the lens of #dotcons algorithms, you’re missing 90% of what actually matters.

    A lot of the “famous” people in #mainstreaming — even on alt spaces — are assholes. Not because fame makes you bad, but because climbing the algorithm's ladder requires selfishness, ego, and conformity.

    On alt platforms, sure, we have "our" assholes, that's life. But our assholes can be challenged, mediated, and composted into something better. On the #mainstreaming side? They're more shit on the corporate pile.

    Please, don't bow down to them. Stay critical. Stay rooted. Keep your shovel handy.

    #4opens #nothingnew #techcurn #fashernista

  55. In tech, the last 20 years have been a mess of #fashernista trends and the ongoing #geekproblem, a compost heap of broken promises and abandoned projects. It's obvious if you lift the lid and really look. The glossy hype fades fast, the rot underneath remains.

    Much of what we call "innovation" ended up as #techshit - rushed, bloated, short-sighted code that needs serious composting if we’re going to grow anything real. #Openweb dreams have been buried under a #dotcons landfill.

    The real challenge now isn’t just pointing at the pile (fun as that can be), it's handing the next generation proper shovels - real tools, real critical thinking, real spaces for building rooted, resilient, open tech.

    A hopeful note: some #fashernistas are starting to apologize and acknowledge the mess. That's good compost material too. Let's keep composting. Let's keep planting.

  56. @rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist

    Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.

    You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.

    The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.

    You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm

    As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.

    We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.

    No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.

    On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.

    We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.

    The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome

    The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…

    And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.

  57. @rooftopjaxx yep, in theory, but not in reality, have talked to the guy a few times over the last 5 years but not got anywhere past #NGO #fashernista that soon turns paratish. The is a signal-to-noise issue with @MediaActivist which is the same mess that has repeatedly killed grassroots movements in the past. I cover this a lot on the site hamishcampbell.com/?s=fasherni

    Not sure what the useful path is, truth is not likely to help.

  58. People are going to increasingly be talking about the#4opens as a political path hamishcampbell.com/tag/4opens/

    Without using the #hashtag and without linking, this will be sad and bad and will fail #fashernista

  59. The hashtag story shows the current state of the world

    The hashtag story on this site is a way of using different hashtags to paint a picture of the current state of the world and the paths that can be taken to address the issues at hand. It involves defining each hashtag and how it relates to the larger narrative. Here is an example of a hashtag story:

    #fashernista is about consumer capitalism and the negative impact it has on society, treating it as a social illness.

    #dotcons are feeding this social illness by promoting constant consumption […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-hashtag