#fashernistas — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fashernistas, aggregated by home.social.
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To compost the #dotcons, the #openweb needs more people with shovels
Yes, the #web02 revolution was a con, it always was. The problem is now most people have spent years pretending that the dominant technology companies were somehow neutral actors - clever companies making useful tools, occasionally getting a little too powerful, occasionally needing a bit of regulation. But now this comforting chattering class story is harder to maintain, as the long "invisible" problem has finally reached the #mainstream, the act of stepping over the smoke and mirrors can […]https://hamishcampbell.com/to-compost-the-dotcons-the-openweb-needs-to-shovel-harder/
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#IndymediaBack is a reboot of the original #Indymedia: decentralized, grassroots media built around open publishing and activist participation.
The point isn't nostalgia, it's learning from the old #fashernistas/#geekproblem split and avoiding another round of tribalism and control politics.
The reboot is about rebuilding the path toward decentralized structures and an #OMN that supports direct democracy, open publishing and anti-authoritarian organising.
This time we also have hashtags, metadata and the semantic #openweb to connect the media commons.
The challenge is simple: don't repeat the old mistakes. Build trust, keep it open, and don't let control become the culture.
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Four years ago I said:
"Hey #fashernistas and #chatteringclasses, stop obsessing over #Musk."
Since then, Musk has bought #Twitter, renamed it X, lurched through one controversy after another, to become a central path in the culture wars, and turned himself into the story. Millions have spent years reacting to him.
Meanwhile, the real issue hasn't changed. The problem was never one billionaire. In tech, it was always our dependence on centralised #dotcons and the #mainstreaming attention economy.
Don't let personalities distract you from building alternatives. #indymediaback #OMN and #OGB are all #KISS grassroots projects focused on growing the #openweb and the commons.
Get off your knees, step away from the #mainstreaming news cycle, and build a future instead.
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The #Fediverse is an accidental #openweb reboot, largely grown by #fashernistas. It's like herding cats to get anything done - neither good nor bad, just the reality of how it evolved.
One path beyond this mess is #OGB: grassroots, #DIY producer governance.
The other is simply to live (and die) with the mess while trying to stop people bowing to the #deathcult. Keeping the #openweb alive starts there.
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"In-group vs out-group" game many #fashernistas play to feel a sense of control and belonging. Sometimes it's useful. Too often it becomes #blocking instead of building.
On the #Fediverse, this tribalism creates more heat than light. The interesting question isn't how to pick a side - it's how to grow beyond the behaviour.
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The #fashernistas need to get off their knees and start calling out pointless things.
Pick up the #4opens as a shovel. There's a mountain of #techshit that needs composting before anything healthy can grow.
In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still kneeling before the #deathcult. If this idea fills you with fear, ask yourself: who or what is your head bowed to?
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The anarchist stream has always had a problem with too many #fashernistas - focused on style, identity and performance, but missing the second half:
A + O = anarchism needs organisation.
Without the building, maintaining and connecting, “scene” anarchism becomes a loop of the same conversations, the same conflicts and the same dead ends.
The point is not just to look radical.
The point is to create useful commons, networks and alternatives.
Get out. Build something. While we still can.
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#fashernistas in a #deathcult are incompetent and thus nasty people.... how do we think we can compost this mess makeing?
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The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb
YOU can’t do social change or challenge without annoying people If you think you can, you’re probably play-acting - and part of the problem - does that annoy you? If it does… maybe sit with that. 🙂 Food for thought, #4opens is a shovel for composting. The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb. The tech - like ActivityPub - grew out of that culture. It wasn’t built by #mainstreaming interests. Now money is flowing in, and with it comes risk of […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-value-of-the-fediverse-comes-from-its-cultural-roots-in-the-openweb/
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A Note on “Security” for the #FOSS Crew
We need to have a clearer, more grounded conversation about “security” and what it actually means in the context of the #openweb. There is a long history of thinking in #FOSS spaces that security is something we can solve purely technically: better encryption, better protocols, better architectures. But in everyday life and practice, people need to work from a much simpler starting point - We do not trust client–server security. We only meaningfully trust what can be verified through […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-note-on-security-to-the-foss-crew/
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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 […] -
What do you think? Do we need more practical tools, or is it more about mindset shifts? How do we balance this? Why are our #fashernistas so poisonous? https://hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fashernistas-so-poisoning/
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The #openweb can be the seedbed of a new culture, if we accept that growth is messy, slow, and unpredictable. Why are our #fashernistas so poisonous? hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fash...
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The #openweb can be the seedbed of a new culture, if we accept that growth is messy, slow, and unpredictable. Why are our #fashernistas so poisonous? https://hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fashernistas-so-poisoning/
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We (re)build the #openweb one small, stubborn step at a time. The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media hamishcampbell.com/the-fasherni...
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We (re)build the #openweb one small, stubborn step at a time. The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fashernistas-poisoned-the-well-of-alt-media/
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Who are the #nastyfew?
This should be obvious to anyone who as some knolage of left politics. They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects. On the surface, they don’t always look bad - in fact, they often present as competent, articulate, even charming. But scratch that surface and the pattern is clear: their drive is not shared flourishing, it’s possession and control. This minority #nastyfew, […] -
Theory and Practice in Activism
There’s a common confusion, often pushed by well-meaning #fashernistas, about how change actually happens. They love theory. They love to talk about change. But when it comes to doing, things go sideways. Why? Because good horizontalists know: theory must emerge from practice, not the other way around.
At the root of radical practice is #DIY culture. We don’t wait for perfect theory or academic approval. We get our hands dirty. We try things, we fail, we try again. Through this, we […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/theory-and-practice-in-activism-2/
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How the world gets into a nasty mess
One vile prat sells weapons to another vile prat so he can flatten a hospital being used by another vile prat, who then returns the favour by bombing the vile prat’s power grid. Then they both turn to the cameras and declare it’s all the other’s fault, while pointing fingers and shouting: “You’re the real vile prat here!”
Meanwhile, the rest of us, watching from behind #dotcons screens, trapped in algorithmic echo chambers, suffer the fallout, literally and figuratively, as […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/how-the-world-gets-into-a-nasty-mess/
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@baslow its the #fashernistas they are very #block pushing.
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This is a story of power, plain and simple
The state of the world, over the last few years, we’ve been watching a familiar story unfold, we’ve seen repeat itself in radical spaces, tech movements, and grassroots networks for decades. It starts in the grassroots with "progressive" #fashernistas (yes, them) pushing themselves into the front to speak for “us.” They talk the talk of decentralisation, care, community, and #FOSS ethics. They wear all the right hashtags: #opensocialmedia, #Fediverse, #commons, #techforgood. But when […]https://hamishcampbell.com/this-is-a-story-of-power-plain-and-simple/
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Review: Who Broke the Internet? – CBC Podcast with Cory Doctorow
🎧 Listen on CBC The dominant narrative around power tends to centre on institutions - on policy boards, corporate elitists, and those privileged enough to claw their way up the slippery sides of crumbling hierarchies. But that's not where most of us live, and more importantly, it’s not where real change and challenge take root. Too often, we miss this essential balance. We forget that we have direct power and influence over the grassroots, because we are the grassroots. We are […]https://hamishcampbell.com/review-who-broke-the-internet-cbc-podcast-with-cory-doctorow/
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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.
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Not to punish the individuals, but to highlight the groups to compost
One of the most corrosive problems on the path to rebooting the #openweb is the nasty, unconscious blocking that seeps through all #mainstreaming and careerist #NGO spaces. It’s not usually overt, it doesn’t come with a clear “no.” It comes with silence, with being ignored. With polite nods and a quick pivot back to safe, fundable, middle-of-the-road ideas that don’t rock the boat. This is how real change is smothered, how compost we need becomes concrete we are trying to break […]https://hamishcampbell.com/not-to-punish-the-individuals-but-to-highlight-the-groups-to-compost/
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The #openweb can be the seedbed of a new culture, if we accept that growth is messy, slow, and unpredictable. Why are our #fashernistas so poisonous? hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fash...
Why are our #fashernistas so p... -
The #openweb can be the seedbed of a new culture, if we accept that growth is messy, slow, and unpredictable. Why are our #fashernistas so poisonous? https://hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fashernistas-so-poisoning/
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The defeatism is loud, but it’s not unbeatable. We’ve been here before. We know the way out. The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media hamishcampbell.com/the-fasherni...
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The defeatism is loud, but it’s not unbeatable. We’ve been here before. We know the way out. The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media https://hamishcampbell.com/the-fashernistas-poisoned-the-well-of-alt-media/
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Composting the #TechShit
The value of the #Fediverse isn’t in the tech specs. It’s not in the #ActivityPub protocol or the code itself, those are tools. The value lies in the culture that birthed it. The #Fediverse is the living embodiment of the #openweb, not some #VC Silicon Valley plaything. But as money floods in, as #mainstreaming forces try to turn it into another hollow platform, we risk losing the very thing that makes it powerful, its strong decentralized, trust-based roots.The looming battle is […] -
The problem of fashionistas in activism
The hashtag #fashionistas" describes individuals and groups who adopt trends or mainstreaming ideologies in activism, for the sake of appearance to align themselves with what is currently popular or socially acceptable. In the realm of activism, this to often pushes the behaviour of #NGOs and advocacy organizations that prioritize "chasing the buzzword" over any meaningful action. The problem with "fashionistas" in activism, particularly among NGOs, is the mess they push: Superficial: NGOs […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-problem-of-fashionistas-in-activism/