#makinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #makinghistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Mit der Initiative „FAU sucht Frau“ versuchte die anarcho-syndikalistische Gewerkschaft Freie Arbeiter*innen-Union Anfang der 2000er Jahre, mehr Frauen* in den eigenen Reihen zu organisieren. Vera Bianchi stellt die die Initiative vor und diskutiert die Bedeutung linker Geschichte.
Ihr Buchbeitrag erschien 2025 im Sammelband „Making History, Zur Geschichte von links und zur Geschichte von Linken“.
FAU sucht Frau – Making History am Beispiel einer Initiative der 2000er Jahre
Vortrag und Diskussion mit Vera Bianchi
Freitag, 18 Uhr, Raum 1
» https://abm26.anarchie-mannheim.de/de/abm26/public/events/10
#abm2026 #Anarchismus #Mannheim #AnarchistischeBuchmesse #FAU #Frauen #Rückblick #MakingHistory #Anarchosyndicalismus #VeraBianchi
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#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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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Why you should help
The internet's public square is privatised, algorithmically controlled for "engagement" over any idea of truth, and placed under the control of a handful of American corporations with no accountability to European citizens or values. The #Fediverse is the most credible existing alternative - but it lacks the shared infrastructure to function as a native commons for news and media. #OMN builds that infrastructure: trust-based, community-controlled, transparent, reversible, and owned by nobody. […] -
Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
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Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
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Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
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Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
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Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
Do you remember when tech felt like a way forward? That moment’s gone on the mainstream #closedweb path. What we’ve got now is something else entirely. Tools like Palantir and Project Maven aren’t about truth or insight. They’re excuse generators. Power does what it wants, then points to “the data” as cover. That’s the product. And the people building this? Still cosplaying as the good guys, well-paid servants of the #nastyfew, wrapped in the fading myth of being “freedom […]https://hamishcampbell.com/do-you-remember-when-technology-felt-like-a-way-forward/
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Let’s try and simplify the #OMN
The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data open source open process open standards It doesn’t start with features, apps, or ideology, it starts with flows. Imagine the network as: pipes […] -
OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons
For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer - Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make it so hard to change the needed balance of power in society? These question matters for working on the future of the society and most importantly the grassroots part of this: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-broken-institutions-and-the-need-to-rebuild-the-commons/
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OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons
For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer - Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make it so hard to change the needed balance of power in society? These question matters for working on the future of the society and most importantly the grassroots part of this: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-broken-institutions-and-the-need-to-rebuild-the-commons/
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Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell
A bunch of native #openweb people spent real time, energy, and focus pushing the #EU toward the #Fediverse. This wasn’t theoretical, it wasn’t speculative, it wasn’t a #NGO whitepaper or a #VC funding pitch. It was practical outreach, grounded in working technology and lived experience, aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on centralized corporate platforms. One concrete moment of this work was the webinar organised between the European Commission and the ActivityPub community: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/europe-the-fediverse-and-the-story-we-failed-to-tell/
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A bunch of native #openweb people spent time, energy and focus pushing the #EU toward the #Fediverse:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/webinar-with-the-european-commission-and-ap-community/1507
That webinar mattered. It showed that EU institutions were open to #ActivityPub as a way to reduce dependency on centralized corporate platforms.
This is exactly the kind of work we need more of, not less. So what went wrong?
Instead of building on this momentum, the grassroots fell to mess and attention drifted back to the familiar #dotcons. Which, in the end, is just more #techshit to compost later.
SocialHub itself documents this blocking story, but there’s little aggregation or narrative continuity
The missing piece: our own history. This story still hasn’t been properly told:
We are very bad at telling our own history. And that failure has consequences.
When people don’t know: that #EU–#Fediverse outreach already happened, that viable alternatives already exist, that these paths were actively neglected,
So that they fall — again and again — for the #dotcons mess, believing it’s the only “realistic” option.
This is exactly why #OMN, #indymediaback, #makinghistory, and #OGB matter.
Before we argue about funding, platforms, or scale, we need: Media to tell the story properly. History to remember what already worked. Governance to keep power visible and contestable
Only then can Europe regain any path to grassroots digital agency without reproducing the same capture dynamics under a different flag.
If we don’t tell our story, someone else will, and it won’t be told in our interests.
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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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
#BusyBusyBusy... #BusyBeingPedro...
#AfterDefrostingAChicken [#ADAC]
#IT's #NotEasy #BeingGreen ♻️
#Whoops - we've #UpsetTheVolcano... #Gently...
#DontPanic, there'll be #AnotherEnlightenment soon... #Soonish™️
🧙🍫🤖:wolfparty:🤖🍫🧙 | ☕️🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹☕️
#BeMoreViking #DoTheCoffee #StillVeryGallic #BeingPedro #StillNotHitler #StillNotChristmas #MakingHistory
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#WonderOfWonders...! With #MoreWonders...!
We have a #GreatBath; for the #CommunalBathBubbles...
#Meanwhile... #StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
And, #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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#WonderOfWonders...! With #MoreWonders...!
We have a #GreatBath; for the #CommunalBathBubbles...
#Meanwhile... #StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
And, #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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There's been a #Disaster...
#NoVolcanoes... #SomeFlooding; but, #Thanks to our #AquaCulture #SpecialistGovernor, we've been #MostlyFine...
We've #AlsoMet #SomeOtherCultures that don't #Appear to have #Embraced #TheIdea of #GoodBearding... We have much to #LearnAndShare about #OurRespectivePeoples...
#StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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There's been a #Disaster...
#NoVolcanoes... #SomeFlooding; but, #Thanks to our #AquaCulture #SpecialistGovernor, we've been #MostlyFine...
We've #AlsoMet #SomeOtherCultures that don't #Appear to have #Embraced #TheIdea of #GoodBearding... We have much to #LearnAndShare about #OurRespectivePeoples...
#StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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#Meanwhile... #StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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#Meanwhile... #StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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#StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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#StillBeingGerman for #TheHolyRomanEmpire...
#MakingHistory with a #ClassicalRepublic... Whether you #LikeIT; #OrNot...
🧙📙🤖:wolfparty:🤖📙🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#NotRemotelyEuropean #BeingGerman #BeforeChristmas #StillBeforeChristmas
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Tiny Island Nation Cape Verde Chases Historic World Cup Spot
#capeverde #MakingHistory #qualification #unprecedented
https://blazetrends.com/tiny-island-nation-cape-verde-chases-historic-world-cup-spot/?fsp_sid=145294 -
Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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Real world tackling the #geekproblem
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s try this […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/real-world-tackling-the-geekproblem/
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The #OMN isn’t just about media, it’s about building the social soil
We need to keep highlighting an old but still urgent tension: the intersection of technology and social change. Where one side leans heavily on practical, technical problem-solving. They want working code, functioning systems, and tangible results, not abstract debates. To them, critiques about capitalism shaping code sound like distractions from the "real work." The other side insists that technical problems are social problems. They argue that all code is written by people, shaped by […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-isnt-just-about-media-its-about-building-the-social-soil/
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Dev test work for Makinghistory application
The #makinghistory project is a decentralized, open-source archiving and storytelling network designed to preserve and amplify grassroots histories. It’s founded on the idea that history isn’t written by the winners - it’s made by those who resist, build, and care. Using digitized collections like the CampbellFamily archive as a seed, the project invites communities to reclaim their narratives through shared, federated networks. This isn’t just another data repository - it’s a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/dev-test-work-for-makinghistory-application/
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A letter from the margins of the #openweb hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-fro... I am still digging #makinghistory #OMN #indymediaback #OGB #RIPENCC #NGI #NLnet
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A letter from the margins of the #openweb https://hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-from-the-margins-of-the-openweb/ I am still digging #makinghistory #OMN #indymediaback #OGB
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A letter from the margins of the #openweb
All the #OMN projects I’ve worked on over the years, from #OGB to #indymediaback, are not directly about social change. They are about creating the possibility of social change. A subtle, but critical difference. We don’t claim to have the answers. What we do offer are tools, networks, and processes that make it easier for people to imagine that the world can be different, and then help them to take the first step. Yet here's the mess that keeps being pushed over us. We are told this […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-from-the-margins-of-the-openweb/
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The development side of #MakingHistory
Building radical alternatives is not just about ideas—it’s about infrastructure. The #makeinghistory project is grounded in the messy, often frustrating work of creating tools that actually function for real communities. We’ve spent decades watching #dotcons centralize power while open projects stumble due to lack of focus, infighting, or simply being too obscure for everyday use.
#Makinghistory means stepping outside the cycle of dead-end open-source projects that never reach real people. We need bridging solutions, funding models outside the #NGO trap, and devs who understand grassroots needs. It’s not about innovation for its own sake, it’s about making the #openweb function better as a lived alternative.
This is where the real fight is. Not in reaction, not in abstraction, but in building tools people can and will use.
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#makinghistory an example workflow
For the last 40 years, we’ve worshiped the #deathcult of #neoliberalism that still blinds us to the collapse unfolding around us. Every institution that promised to guide and protect us has failed. The ruling classes, in every hue of politics, have abandoned us. Our media and entertainment elitists distract and distort. #NGOs, once trusted, have betrayed the causes they claimed to champion. Academia and business alike have clutched at power, are now dithering while the world burns. We face […]https://hamishcampbell.com/makinghistory-an-example-workflow/
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CHRIS SLADE Says AXL ROSE Was 'Nothing Like The Character You've Heard About' During AC/DC's 2016 Tour#ChrisSlade #ACDC #AxlRose #2016Tour #Misconceptions #RockandRoll #RockLegend #MakingHistory
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"Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry Leonard to win Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black candidate elected to Congress."
https://apnews.com/live/election-2023-live-updates#0000018b-ac66-de56-a9cf-fe76ab2f0000
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Bei Nachrichten über #deSantis im #Florida-#Laendle muss ich immer an Stephen #Fry: »Geschichte machen« denken. Das ist ein Buch., Ihr wisst, Pappedeckel und dazwischen bedrucktes Papier. Lesegerät: Brille oder Kontaktlinsen, Brain 1.0. Meist softwarekompatibel. Vielleicht auch im englischsprachigen Original interessant für die eine oder den andern.
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Bei Nachrichten über #deSantis im #Florida-#Laendle muss ich immer an Stephen #Fry: »Geschichte machen« denken. Das ist ein Buch., Ihr wisst, Pappedeckel und dazwischen bedrucktes Papier. Lesegerät: Brille oder Kontaktlinsen, Brain 1.0. Meist softwarekompatibel. Vielleicht auch im englischsprachigen Original interessant für die eine oder den andern.