#makinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #makinghistory, aggregated by home.social.
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A story about the normal path
I have to be clear about where I’m coming from, as I’m standing in what might generously be called an undefined position. Not because I have no position, but because I’ve spent a very long time in the messy path of history that nobody has ever managed to define: grassroots DIY direct action. It’s a long history, a lot of people have been building things, breaking things, occupying things, squatting things, filming things, publishing things, arguing about things and occasionally […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-personal-story-a-universal-path/
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Don't only try to convince people about the #OMN in the abstract, show them.
If a #fashernista sees shiny stuff growing on real soil, they'll drift toward it because it works.
If the #geekproblem finds a simple tool, they'll tinker because they can get their hands dirty.
The #mainstreamers will wait until it looks inevitable. Fine, don't build for them, build something useful. Build it in the open.
That's the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards, open process.
A working #OMN node. A working #MakingHistory flow. News moving. Archives useful. Trust built through participation.
We don't need better marketing, we need better examples.