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  1. 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-

  2. 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-

  3. 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-

  4. 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-

  5. @FediVariety @evan @michael @bjoernsta

    The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  6. @FediVariety @evan @michael @bjoernsta

    The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  7. @FediVariety @evan @michael @bjoernsta

    The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  8. @FediVariety @evan @michael @bjoernsta

    The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  9. @FediVariety @evan @michael @bjoernsta

    The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  10. The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  11. The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  12. The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  13. The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  14. The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

    This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

    Signal-to-noise.

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

    Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the paths and people pushing us down paths we’re actually walking. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-me

  24. The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

    Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the terrain we’re actually operating on. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and visibility as impact. That’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-me

  25. The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

    Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the terrain we’re actually operating on. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and visibility as impact. That’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-me

  26. The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

    Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the terrain we’re actually operating on. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and visibility as impact. That’s […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-me

  27. The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

    #Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-

  28. The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

    #Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism - the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-

  29. The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

    #Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism - the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-

  30. The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

    #Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism - the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-

  31. The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

    #Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-

  32. Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

    Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/actually-so

  33. Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

    Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/actually-so

  34. Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

    Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/actually-so

  35. Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

    Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most blinded people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, […]

    hamishcampbell.com/actually-so

  36. Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

    Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

    hamishcampbell.com/actually-so

  37. #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

  38. #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

  39. #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

  40. In the #OMN hashtag story, #PGA (Peoples' Global Action) represents the kind of horizontal, grassroots, anti-capitalist international organising that prefigures the #openweb - a network of movements that refused both corporate capture and top-down politics, built on direct action and solidarity across borders rather than #NGO bureaucracy or #mainstreaming compromise.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=PGA

  41. In the #OMN hashtag story, #PGA (Peoples' Global Action) represents the kind of horizontal, grassroots, anti-capitalist international organising that prefigures the #openweb - a network of movements that refused both corporate capture and top-down politics, built on direct action and solidarity across borders rather than #NGO bureaucracy or #mainstreaming compromise.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=PGA

  42. In the #OMN hashtag story, #PGA (Peoples' Global Action) represents the kind of horizontal, grassroots, anti-capitalist international organising that prefigures the #openweb - a network of movements that refused both corporate capture and top-down politics, built on direct action and solidarity across borders rather than #NGO bureaucracy or #mainstreaming compromise.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=PGA

  43. In the #OMN hashtag story, #PGA (Peoples' Global Action) represents the kind of horizontal, grassroots, anti-capitalist international organising that prefigures the #openweb - a network of movements that refused both corporate capture and top-down politics, built on direct action and solidarity across borders rather than #NGO bureaucracy or #mainstreaming compromise.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=PGA

  44. In the #OMN hashtag story, #PGA (Peoples' Global Action) represents the kind of horizontal, grassroots, anti-capitalist international organising that prefigures the #openweb - a network of movements that refused both corporate capture and top-down politics, built on direct action and solidarity across borders rather than #NGO bureaucracy or #mainstreaming compromise.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=PGA

  45. In the #OMN hashtag story, #Oxford functions as a grounded local instance of normal tensions - a city that embodies the contradiction between elitist institutional power (#mainstreaming, #NGO culture, #deathcult economics) and genuine grassroots community, used as a real-world grounded path for #openweb organising and the #4opens approach.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=Oxford

  46. In the #OMN hashtag story, #Oxford functions as a grounded local instance of normal tensions - a city that embodies the contradiction between elitist institutional power (#mainstreaming, #NGO culture, #deathcult economics) and genuine grassroots community, used as a real-world grounded path for #openweb organising and the #4opens approach.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=Oxford

  47. In the #OMN hashtag story, #Oxford functions as a grounded local instance of normal tensions - a city that embodies the contradiction between elitist institutional power (#mainstreaming, #NGO culture, #deathcult economics) and genuine grassroots community, used as a real-world grounded path for #openweb organising and the #4opens approach.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=Oxford

  48. In the #OMN hashtag story, #Oxford functions as a grounded local instance of normal tensions - a city that embodies the contradiction between elitist institutional power (#mainstreaming, #NGO culture, #deathcult economics) and genuine grassroots community, used as a real-world grounded path for #openweb organising and the #4opens approach.

    hamishcampbell.com/?s=Oxford