#makinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #makinghistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Religion, mystery and the #openweb
I am not religious, but that does not mean religion is something that can only be dismissed as irrational, stupid or obsolete. There is a useful distinction between believing in a religion and understanding the social, cultural and philosophical work that religion has historically done. This matters for the #OMN because we are interested in how human beings make meaning, build communities and organise themselves when they don't have complete knowledge of the world. We don't know everything - […]https://hamishcampbell.com/religion-mystery-and-the-openweb/
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This summer #climatechaos
This summer, heat, fires, the soon to come winter floods and insurance withdrawals will make #climatechaos harder to treat as something happening somewhere else. For years, climate breakdown was framed as an activist issue, something discussed by environmental groups while mainstream politics carried on with business as usual. That is changing, people are experiencing the consequences: extreme heat, flooding, damaged homes, rising insurance costs, failing infrastructure and growing […]https://hamishcampbell.com/this-summer-climatechaos-is-mainstream/
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Grassroots #openweb infrastructure is need for a different future
For 50 years we have worshipped the #deathcult - endless growth, extraction, competition and individualism - and now we are living with the damage that this has done to our society and the living world. The current hard shift to the right won't fix any of this, it simply empowers the #nastyfew to surf the apocalypse while more and more of us are left fighting over the scraps. Blind hatred and political ignorance are not solutions. Neither is pretending that the past 50 years of "common […]https://hamishcampbell.com/grassroots-openweb-infrastructure-is-need-for-a-different-future/
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Compost the #techshit. Don't throw everything away—salvage what works.
Reuse code, protocols and knowledge instead of chasing endless #techchurn.
Build commons infrastructure. Simple, federated tools that communities can actually run themselves.
This is where the #OMN works: open standards, transparent governance, human moderation and shared ownership.
Document what works. Projects like #MakingHistory matter because movements lose hard-won knowledge when people move on. Living archives help communities avoid starting from zero.
Value maintenance over novelty. Healthy ecosystems need gardeners more than inventors. Keeping useful things working is often more important than creating new things.
Practice cooperation. Small habits - sharing work, documenting decisions, mentoring, resolving conflict - are how trust grows. Technology can support that, but it can't replace it.
Accept the long timescale. If dominant assumptions are changing, it will likely be gradual. Cultural shifts often happen over decades rather than months.