#omn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #omn, aggregated by home.social.
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Turning stress, conflict, and exhaustion into commons culture instead of mutual destruction
"To put some "commons" structure into this kindness… A path before we knee-jerk criticise members of the community we should make real offers to help repeatedly (x3) in a positive community way. Only then let the "negative" monster of judgment lose to clean up the mess. Focus on clean up first, the "common senses" desire to attack second. What do you think about growing our positive norms (common sense)." This is the hard bit of any grassroots movement of turning stress, conflict, and […] -
Turning stress, conflict, and exhaustion into commons culture instead of mutual destruction
"To put some "commons" structure into this kindness… A path before we knee-jerk criticise members of the community we should make real offers to help repeatedly (x3) in a positive community way. Only then let the "negative" monster of judgment lose to clean up the mess. Focus on clean up first, the "common senses" desire to attack second. What do you think about growing our positive norms (common sense)." This is the hard bit of any grassroots movement of turning stress, conflict, and […] -
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it's a fair point, but a distraction as these are not stand-alone hot takes, they are all a part of a long flowing story about how we got into this mess and how we might get out of it. So, focus, please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that […] -
People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked, and toward a confused mess of branding, #NGO careerism, platform thinking, and endless social noise. https://hamishcampbell.com/what-happened-over-the-last-ten-years-on-our-fediverse-path/ People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, […] -
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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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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? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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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? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 08 May, 2026This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
There is a lot of coverage of the shitshow that is ShitHub this week. And that makes me so happy I moved to Codeberg several […]
https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-08-may-2026/ #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #BuildAwesome #Buttondown #Codeberg #CSS #Emacs #FediLab #FediProfile #fediverse #Forgejo #Ghost #Holos #HTML #indieweb #javascript #LibreOffice #Librewolf #Linux #Mastodon #Matrix #MicroBlog #OMN #pckt #RSS #Silex #WebComponents #xWiki -
@rooftopjaxx its kinda OK but not very strong - the washing metaphor... what would be a more spiky native #OMN hashtag for the same subject.
Lie, cheat, steal?
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Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
People resist visible structure
Freedoms are not given, they are taken.-- Peter Kropotkin This post comes from real life experience with #Oxfordboaters, but I am going to address it as a tech problem as it is the same mess we need to work on composting in our social tech projects. People don’t actually hate structure, what they tend to resist is visible structure - the kind we need to make visible so we can see, question, and challenge. At the same time, they’re always perfectly comfortable inside invisible structures […]https://hamishcampbell.com/people-resist-is-visible-structure/
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The #OMN is a path to growing an alternative to corporate-controlled platforms (#dotcons), a “public-first” digital commons. Composting the #encryptionist detour https://hamishcampbell.com/the-encryptionist-detour/
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The #encryptionist detour
Let’s look back to before the #Fediverse, to be honest about the last two decades of #openweb failure, for a long time we got pulled off the path. Not only by enemies, but by a mix of fear, fashion, and half-understood technical “solutions” that felt right to fearful people at the time. The rise of the dogmatic, blinded #encryptionist mindset came out of real conditions of mass surveillance revelations (Snowden era), common sense #neoliberal distrust of states and corporations and the […] -
The ideas and path underneath the #OMN are not stupid. Capital as the real villain, not individual platform CEOs. Technology serving human networks rather than replacing them. Failure as compost rather than shame. These are interesting frames.
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The Programmer's Fulcrum: 01 May, 2026 is out! It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. #fediverse #OMN #WordPress #Linux #ActivityPub #ATProto #Holos #RSS #HTML #HTMX
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That’s the path the #OMN is on. Process is what gives legitimacy https://hamishcampbell.com/process-is-what-gives-legitimacy-not-people/
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The Problem Was Never Just the Platforms – It’s What We Build Instead
For years, the #fashionista #openweb conversation has been stuck in a loop of naming villains: surveillance capitalism, the #dotcons, Zuckerberg, Musk, “the algorithm.” But focusing on enemies only gets you so far. The creative question isn’t what we’re against - it’s what we’re actually building together to replace it. That’s where the #OMN takes a useful path. Yes, the big platforms absorb resistance, repackage it, and sell it back to us, that cycle is real. But pointing it […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-problem-was-never-just-the-platforms-its-what-we-build-instead/
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The for-profit platforms, underpinned by neoliberal ideology, drives much of the dysfunction we see - both in society and within tech itself. Life “inside the #dotcons” means participating, often uncritically, in reinforcing #stupidindividualism. Moving beyond this requires building alternatives grounded in the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards, and open processes. Projects like #OMN point in this direction.
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The Crew – Paths to Growth?
These people are a problem, the group of people who took over running the #Fediverse from us first wave crew. The problem is that they are liars - not out of malice, but in a blinded, dogmatic way. They arrived in this native #openweb movement already carrying this mindset, and it’s only deepened since. That doesn’t make them personally nasty, but it does make them dangerously incompetent. Why? Because they generate serious signal-to-noise problems, misallocate resources, misplace […] -
The hashtag story - #OMN Grounding (the roots as a story) https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-the-peace-dividend-and-the-return-of-history/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/
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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, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/
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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 […]https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/
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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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In the #OMN hashtag story, #VC (Venture Capital) represents the flow of private speculative money into tech that captures and encloses what should be commons, replacing community-driven development with profit-driven extraction and turning potential tools for social good into instruments of the #deathcult.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #UX (User Experience) isn't about making interfaces prettier or more intuitive - it's a political question about who technology is actually built for, where bad #UX is a symptom of the #geekproblem and the #dotcons optimising for engagement and control rather than real human need.
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In #OMN thinking, #traditionalmedia refers to the legacy thinking of broadcast and print institutions - TV, radio, newspapers - that present themselves as neutral but are structurally embedded in the same #neoliberal, #dotcons power systems they claim to objectively report on, making them megaphones for the #deathcult status quo rather than public interest journalism.
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The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over any collective well-being - a behaviour so normalised by forty years of #neoliberalism that people actively work against their own community and ecological survival while blindly believing they are exercising personal freedom.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #spiky is the confrontational, direct, and uncompromising tendency within radical movements - the willingness to push back hard against power, name uncomfortable truths, and refuse to sand down political edges for the sake of mainstream respectability and blinded common sense.
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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.
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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.
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In the #OMN view, #opensource is not just a software licence - it's a political commitment to transparency, shared ownership, and community control, where code, data, and process are all open to scrutiny and participation rather than locked behind corporate or technical gatekeeping.
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#OMN (Open Media Network) is a grassroots project to build human-centred, trust-based digital infrastructure on the #openweb - putting community need and collective governance ahead of technical complexity, commercial interest, and the centralised control of the #dotcons. It treats technology as a tool for social change rather than an end in itself, grounded in the #4opens (open code, open data, open standards, open process) and the principle that networks should be controlled and shaped by the people who use them.
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In the #OMN path, #KISS ("Keep It Simple, Stupid") isn't just a design principle - it's a political stance against the tendency of the #geekproblem to deliberately or unconsciously build complexity as a form of control, insisting instead that technology serving genuine human needs should be transparent, accessible, and understandable to the people who use it, not just the people who build it.
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Based on the #OMN hashtag story: #indymediaback is a call to revive and rebuild the radical, grassroots, community-controlled media networks that flourished in the#Indymedia era - open, decentralised, and owned by the people publishing them - as a direct alternative to both the corporate #dotcons and the hollowed-out #NGO media landscape that replaced them.
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In #OMN language, #fluffy describes the well-meaning but toothless tendency within progressive movements to prioritise comfort, consensus, and niceness over honest conflict and effective action - the politics of the group hug that mistakes feeling good about organising for actually changing anything.
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On the #OMN path, the #fediverse is the practical #reboot infrastructure of the #openweb - a decentralised network of interconnected, community-controlled networks built on #4opens standards like #activitypub, where no corporation owns the pipes, and where people and media flow across different instances.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #compost means taking the failures, mistakes, and accumulated mess of past movements and tech projects - rather than discarding or ignoring them - and breaking them down into something that can feed new growth, treating dysfunction and #blocking dead ends as raw material for building better rather than as waste to be hidden.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #compost means taking the failures, mistakes, and accumulated mess of past movements and tech projects - rather than discarding or ignoring them - and breaking them down into something that can feed new growth, treating dysfunction and #blocking dead ends as raw material for building better rather than as waste to be hidden.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #compost means taking the failures, mistakes, and accumulated mess of past movements and tech projects - rather than discarding or ignoring them - and breaking them down into something that can feed new growth, treating dysfunction and #blocking dead ends as raw material for building better rather than as waste to be hidden.
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In the #OMN hashtag story, #compost means taking the failures, mistakes, and accumulated mess of past movements and tech projects - rather than discarding or ignoring them - and breaking them down into something that can feed new growth, treating dysfunction and #blocking dead ends as raw material for building better rather than as waste to be hidden.