#open-web — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #open-web, aggregated by home.social.
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The #4opens are practical tools for building grassroots collaboration.
Open Data → share knowledge.
Open Source → share code.
Open Standards → make projects work together.
Open Process → build trust through transparency.The result? Less duplicated effort, more interoperability, stronger communities, and shared learning. A common path that helps projects recognise each other, collaborate, and grow outside closed corporate #dotcons platforms.
The #4opens build the trust and shared values we need to create a resilient #openweb.
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The #4opens are practical tools for building grassroots collaboration.
Open Data → share knowledge.
Open Source → share code.
Open Standards → make projects work together.
Open Process → build trust through transparency.The result? Less duplicated effort, more interoperability, stronger communities, and shared learning. A common path that helps projects recognise each other, collaborate, and grow outside closed corporate #dotcons platforms.
The #4opens build the trust and shared values we need to create a resilient #openweb.
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Things are accelerating. From the global lurch toward authoritarianism to deepening #climatechaos, it's understandable to feel overwhelmed.
The answer isn't trying to fix everything. It's staying grounded and building the social and technical infrastructure that can hold the line, nurture trust, and grow what's needed.
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Things are accelerating. From the global lurch toward authoritarianism to deepening #climatechaos, it's understandable to feel overwhelmed.
The answer isn't trying to fix everything. It's staying grounded and building the social and technical infrastructure that can hold the line, nurture trust, and grow what's needed.
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There’s a lot of pointlessness in the world. Open up any space and it tends to flood in.
Meanwhile, what we call “meaning” is often just noise that holds for a moment before it fades.
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There’s a lot of pointlessness in the world. Open up any space and it tends to flood in.
Meanwhile, what we call “meaning” is often just noise that holds for a moment before it fades.
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If you see the political spectrum as a question of social instincts, the right tends towards fear and control, while the left tends towards trust and openness.
Which makes you wonder... where is the "left" in mainstream US politics?
Maybe the debate is happening inside a much narrower space than people like to admit.
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If you see the political spectrum as a question of social instincts, the right tends towards fear and control, while the left tends towards trust and openness.
Which makes you wonder... where is the "left" in mainstream US politics?
Maybe the debate is happening inside a much narrower space than people like to admit.
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Best not to keep feeding the churn. It's #KISS #openweb and #closedweb. The rest is #fashernista guff that'll need composting when the next buzzwords arrive in a year or two.
Keep it simple. #KISS
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Best not to keep feeding the churn. It's #KISS #openweb and #closedweb. The rest is #fashernista guff that'll need composting when the next buzzwords arrive in a year or two.
Keep it simple. #KISS
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We need to start calling pointless things pointless. In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still on their knees worshipping the #deathcult instead of facing reality.
If the idea of saying this out loud fills you with fear, ask yourself: what is your head bowed to?
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We need to start calling pointless things pointless. In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still on their knees worshipping the #deathcult instead of facing reality.
If the idea of saying this out loud fills you with fear, ask yourself: what is your head bowed to?
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The #fashernistas need to get off their knees and start calling out pointless things.
Pick up the #4opens as a shovel. There's a mountain of #techshit that needs composting before anything healthy can grow.
In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still kneeling before the #deathcult. If this idea fills you with fear, ask yourself: who or what is your head bowed to?
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The #fashernistas need to get off their knees and start calling out pointless things.
Pick up the #4opens as a shovel. There's a mountain of #techshit that needs composting before anything healthy can grow.
In the era of #climatechaos, too many people are still kneeling before the #deathcult. If this idea fills you with fear, ask yourself: who or what is your head bowed to?
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All thinking is critique. If you're not looking for faults, you're probably not looking at the thing at all.
Don't be afraid of the mess. Pick up the #4opens and start gardening #techshit. There's plenty of compost to plant seeds of hope in this era of #climatechaos.
Lift your head. Look around. See what's really growing.
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All thinking is critique. If you're not looking for faults, you're probably not looking at the thing at all.
Don't be afraid of the mess. Pick up the #4opens and start gardening #techshit. There's plenty of compost to plant seeds of hope in this era of #climatechaos.
Lift your head. Look around. See what's really growing.
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The language we use isn't neutral. Most #mainstreaming terms carry assumptions about hierarchy, control, competition and #deathcult "common sense". If we keep speaking normal language, we keep reinforcing the normal worldview.
If you want progressive outcomes, start by questioning the words you're using. Different language opens up different possibilities.
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The language we use isn't neutral. Most #mainstreaming terms carry assumptions about hierarchy, control, competition and #deathcult "common sense". If we keep speaking normal language, we keep reinforcing the normal worldview.
If you want progressive outcomes, start by questioning the words you're using. Different language opens up different possibilities.
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#OMN needs your help. All our projects are grassroots, #DIY efforts to rebuild the #openweb. If you have time, skills, or know someone who does, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for people interested in web development, hosting, sysadmin, documentation, testing, outreach, and community building. Every contribution helps.
Let's build public-first media and infrastructure together. #4opens #FOSS #Fediverse #Grassroots
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#OMN needs your help. All our projects are grassroots, #DIY efforts to rebuild the #openweb. If you have time, skills, or know someone who does, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for people interested in web development, hosting, sysadmin, documentation, testing, outreach, and community building. Every contribution helps.
Let's build public-first media and infrastructure together. #4opens #FOSS #Fediverse #Grassroots
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#Mastodon and the wider #Fediverse are native #openweb projects built on the #4opens. Attempts to "harden" and "secure" them by closing them down miss the point: openness is the core strength, not the weakness.
* Use #ActivityPub for public media and publishing.
* Use encrypted P2P chat for private communication.
Mixing these roles, or spreading #FUD to justify unnecessary security layers on public media, doesn't make activists safe, it undermines the very openness that makes grassroots organising possible.
Use the right tool for the right job. #FOSS
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#Mastodon and the wider #Fediverse are native #openweb projects built on the #4opens. Attempts to "harden" and "secure" them by closing them down miss the point: openness is the core strength, not the weakness.
* Use #ActivityPub for public media and publishing.
* Use encrypted P2P chat for private communication.
Mixing these roles, or spreading #FUD to justify unnecessary security layers on public media, doesn't make activists safe, it undermines the very openness that makes grassroots organising possible.
Use the right tool for the right job. #FOSS
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“The thing is, when working on decentralized tech, I always believed it was important because we had serious risks from centralization, surveillance, etc from governments and corporations, potentially co-conspiring. But what I hadn't anticipated is that as things became more centralized, the will to fight for the internet as something in the public interest too would evaporate.
When I have conversations with family members and friends who haven't yet thought much about the age verification and similar bills and their consequences, they've said "well, someone has to hold corporations like Meta" responsible. To which I say, "but what about all the smaller, non-corporate parts of the internet?" To which, many people are surprised, because they've simply forgotten about those things.
When the internet and computing becomes five corporations to most people, they begin to treat it as the concerns of reigning in five corporations.“
https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/
#AgeVerification #Surveillance #OpenWeb #Decentralization #DigitalRights #Oligopolies #Fediverse #Privacy
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“The thing is, when working on decentralized tech, I always believed it was important because we had serious risks from centralization, surveillance, etc from governments and corporations, potentially co-conspiring. But what I hadn't anticipated is that as things became more centralized, the will to fight for the internet as something in the public interest too would evaporate.
When I have conversations with family members and friends who haven't yet thought much about the age verification and similar bills and their consequences, they've said "well, someone has to hold corporations like Meta" responsible. To which I say, "but what about all the smaller, non-corporate parts of the internet?" To which, many people are surprised, because they've simply forgotten about those things.
When the internet and computing becomes five corporations to most people, they begin to treat it as the concerns of reigning in five corporations.“
https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/
#AgeVerification #Surveillance #OpenWeb #Decentralization #DigitalRights #Oligopolies #Fediverse #Privacy
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🔒 Reddit chiude la vecchia interfaccia dietro al login: un altro passo verso piattaforme più controllate e meno web aperto. #Reddit #OpenWeb
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/reddit-blinda-oldredditcom-servira-il-login-per-entrarci
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Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! Enjoy some Timmy's and the latest from TAGN, Dave Winer, Pixel One, David, Joar, Tofutush, Shintar, @[email protected], Juhis, Andrew Plotkin, Tobold, Thomas and more!
westkarana.xyz
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Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! Enjoy some Timmy's and the latest from @wilhelm_arcturus, @davew, @Joar, Tofutush, @rogeredwards, @hamatti, @zarfeblong and more!
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Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! Enjoy some Timmy's and the latest from @wilhelm_arcturus, @davew, @Joar, Tofutush, @rogeredwards, @hamatti, @zarfeblong and more!
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The culture of #FOSS
Three years ago I wrote: “I get the feeling we are running on dregs on the #fediverse dev side. Social movements come in waves; this one is ebbing into the #mainstreaming. No bad thing, but not, I think, what any of us want for ‘our’ #openweb.” Looking back, I wonder what has actually changed - and more importantly, what have we learned? The #Fediverse has grown, more people know about decentralised social media, more organisations are paying attention, and the ideas that once lived […] -
Politics isn't simply "left vs right". A better lens is trust vs fear. The right is driven by fear and control. But parts of the left follow the same path. Think of the Bolsheviks historically, or groups like the #SWP more recently.
The same pattern shows up in tech. Much of the #encryptionists discourse, on both the right and the left, is rooted in fear, suspicion and control.
The alternative is to build from trust, openness. That's the harder path, but it's native to the #openweb.
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Politics isn't simply "left vs right". A better lens is trust vs fear. The right is driven by fear and control. But parts of the left follow the same path. Think of the Bolsheviks historically, or groups like the #SWP more recently.
The same pattern shows up in tech. Much of the #encryptionists discourse, on both the right and the left, is rooted in fear, suspicion and control.
The alternative is to build from trust, openness. That's the harder path, but it's native to the #openweb.
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The last 40 years of worshipping the neoliberal #deathcult has driven us into #climatechaos and social breakdown.
One thing few people talk about is the biggest obstacle isn't only the small elitist crew profiting from this mess. It's the huge middle that keeps defending the failing "common sense" of #mainstreaming liberalism. This is the #blocking force.
Real change won't come from asking those in power to be nicer. It comes from shifting this middle towards the commons, community and the #openweb.
That's the work of #OMN. It's also why movements like #XR have had an impact: they challenge the "there is no alternative" story.
We don't need better management of collapse. We need to build something different.
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The last 40 years of worshipping the neoliberal #deathcult has driven us into #climatechaos and social breakdown.
One thing few people talk about is the biggest obstacle isn't only the small elitist crew profiting from this mess. It's the huge middle that keeps defending the failing "common sense" of #mainstreaming liberalism. This is the #blocking force.
Real change won't come from asking those in power to be nicer. It comes from shifting this middle towards the commons, community and the #openweb.
That's the work of #OMN. It's also why movements like #XR have had an impact: they challenge the "there is no alternative" story.
We don't need better management of collapse. We need to build something different.
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Mozilla created Mozilla.org, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit to steward the Mozilla Project by coordinating funding, brands, and long-term strategy. 🦊
All Mozilla organizations remain under the Mozilla Foundation, with Mozilla.org operating the portfolio while nonprofit ownership and the mission remain unchanged. 🔓🔗 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/announcing-mozilla-org-new-non-profit/
#TechNews #Mozilla #OpenSource #Privacy #AI #Firefox #Nonprofit #OpenWeb #UserChoice #DigitalRights #Technology #Innovation #Internet #FOSS #Browser
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Mozilla created Mozilla.org, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit to steward the Mozilla Project by coordinating funding, brands, and long-term strategy. 🦊
All Mozilla organizations remain under the Mozilla Foundation, with Mozilla.org operating the portfolio while nonprofit ownership and the mission remain unchanged. 🔓🔗 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/announcing-mozilla-org-new-non-profit/
#TechNews #Mozilla #OpenSource #Privacy #AI #Firefox #Nonprofit #OpenWeb #UserChoice #DigitalRights #Technology #Innovation #Internet #FOSS #Browser
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We are living through a dangerous moment
The nasty side Let's look at a #fluffy positive view of the path we need to be on. We are living through a dangerous moment, the systems around us are failing, but the dominant response is still denial at worst or to try to repair the existing structures that created the crisis at best. But, the problem is not one bad policy, one bad company, or one bad government. The problem is a whole way of organising society around extraction, scale, speed and distance. A system that measures success […]https://hamishcampbell.com/we-are-living-through-a-dangerous-moment/
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The early #openweb grew from a #DIY culture. People did not wait for permission. They built websites, shared code, created independent media, made tools, organised communities and experimented with new ways of communicating.
The power was not just in the technology. It was in the surrounding culture:
Do it yourself.
Share what you learn.
Build with others.The problem is that DIY can stop at the first step. A lot of radical spaces become focused on identity, aesthetics and scene-building - the #fashernista layer - while missing the second part - Organisation.
The challenge is creating structures that survive. The #OMN idea is about reconnecting these two things: DIY + organisation.
The creativity of the #openweb with the practical need to build networks, memory, trust and shared infrastructure.
A living commons, the future needs people who make things, maintain things and connect things. The internet was never just about tools. It was about people building together.
#OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #fediverse #DIY #indymediaback
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The early #openweb grew from a #DIY culture. People did not wait for permission. They built websites, shared code, created independent media, made tools, organised communities and experimented with new ways of communicating.
The power was not just in the technology. It was in the surrounding culture:
Do it yourself.
Share what you learn.
Build with others.The problem is that DIY can stop at the first step. A lot of radical spaces become focused on identity, aesthetics and scene-building - the #fashernista layer - while missing the second part - Organisation.
The challenge is creating structures that survive. The #OMN idea is about reconnecting these two things: DIY + organisation.
The creativity of the #openweb with the practical need to build networks, memory, trust and shared infrastructure.
A living commons, the future needs people who make things, maintain things and connect things. The internet was never just about tools. It was about people building together.
#OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #fediverse #DIY #indymediaback
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Today's #DailyBlogroll has all new stuff straight from the virtual pens of @[email protected], Wilhelm, Azuriel, Luna, @[email protected], Bruce Schneier, Scopique, Stargrace, Warner, Emily, Jamie Zawinski, Michael and more!
westkarana.xyz
#OpenWeb #MMORPG #CozyGaming #Blogging -
Today's #DailyBlogroll has all new stuff straight from the virtual pens of @davew, @wilhelm_arcturus, Azuriel, Luna, Bhagpuss, @scopique, @stargrace, @WarnerCrocker, @monsterladysdiary.com, @virtualmoose.org and more!
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Today's #DailyBlogroll has all new stuff straight from the virtual pens of @davew, @wilhelm_arcturus, Azuriel, Luna, Bhagpuss, @scopique, @stargrace, @WarnerCrocker, @monsterladysdiary.com, @virtualmoose.org and more!
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The anarchist stream has always had a problem with too many #fashernistas - focused on style, identity and performance, but missing the second half:
A + O = anarchism needs organisation.
Without the building, maintaining and connecting, “scene” anarchism becomes a loop of the same conversations, the same conflicts and the same dead ends.
The point is not just to look radical.
The point is to create useful commons, networks and alternatives.
Get out. Build something. While we still can.
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The anarchist stream has always had a problem with too many #fashernistas - focused on style, identity and performance, but missing the second half:
A + O = anarchism needs organisation.
Without the building, maintaining and connecting, “scene” anarchism becomes a loop of the same conversations, the same conflicts and the same dead ends.
The point is not just to look radical.
The point is to create useful commons, networks and alternatives.
Get out. Build something. While we still can.
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University Innsbruck is running a survey to try and understand the effect of LLM crawlers on the open web. If you manage a web service of any kind, this is worth a few minutes.
https://umfrage.uibk.ac.at/limesurvey/allgemein/898996?lang=en
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University Innsbruck is running a survey to try and understand the effect of LLM crawlers on the open web. If you manage a web service of any kind, this is worth a few minutes.
https://umfrage.uibk.ac.at/limesurvey/allgemein/898996?lang=en
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This week, we map the visual layer of the fediverse with current numbers (June 2026): Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and ... Flickr?
Pixelfed: ~100K MAU across 700 servers. @dansup has been building it for eight years, mostly alone, turning down VC offers and funding it through a Kickstarter that raised CA$138K for a nonprofit foundation.
Meta started blocking links to Pixelfed in January 2025 which had the reverse effect - the flagship instance gained 200,000+ new accounts.
Loops: federated short-form video, also by dansup. mid-4,000s MAU, 26 servers. opt-in algorithmic feed (the default is chronological), trust-score moderation, no AI training on user content.
PeerTube: 47K MAU across 1,500+ servers. Framasoft (French nonprofit). the most infrastructure-heavy platform on the fediverse.
The visual web is the most expensive layer of the internet to decentralize. None of this was built on venture-scale economics.
Part 2 of the Fediverse Beyond Mastodon series. Part 3 will cover writing platforms: Ghost, WriteFreely, and micro.blog.
#Fediverse #Pixelfed #Loops #PeerTube #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #Owncast #FederatedVideo
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Hey! Just launched Goguma, my blog about life in Korea, Linux, privacy, F1 and the sneaky tricks companies use to get more of your money. In Spanish, English and Korean.
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Hey! Just launched Goguma, my blog about life in Korea, Linux, privacy, F1 and the sneaky tricks companies use to get more of your money. In Spanish, English and Korean.
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Oxford boaters every day commons
There will be increasing experience of commons as lived infrastructure, not theory, not an idea waiting to be implemented. As the #mainstreaming keeps failing people will need practical, community-led way of meeting shared needs that work and exists wherever people cooperate outside of markets and hierarchy. Commons are not abstract systems, they are what people do when they stop waiting for permission. We have a recent example - #Oxfordboaters it is messy commons in real time, not a perfect […]https://hamishcampbell.com/oxford-boaters-every-day-commons/
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Worshipping the #deathcult is strangely normal even inside our “alternative” tech spaces.
Look at how we talk about horizontal #openweb projects. The branding itself pulls us back into the same patterns: building identities around products, personalities and platforms instead of the commons and the wider movement.
#Mastodon, #PeerTube and the use of the term #Fediverse become part of this #fashernista cycle - chasing labels and recognition while avoiding or forgetting the deeper social change these tools were meant to support.
At the #OMN we use #openweb as the bigger frame. The projects are important, but they should sit as links within a wider ecosystem, not become the whole story.
The path is not another brand. The path is a living, diverse, decentralised movement for change and challenge.
Time to stop looking down at the floor, get up and build the commons.
#OMN #4opens #openweb #fediverse #commons #decentralisation #deathcult
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The #mainstreaming crew want the appearance of grassroots without the risk of actually challenging the system.
The problem is deeper than symbols. Wearing green clothes, using the right language, or adopting the image of change is not the same as building change.
If you are still on your knees, head down, worshipping the #deathcult then the costume means nothing.
To compost this mess, the first step is not perfection. The first step is standing up, maybe one knee. Then looking around, questioning the assumptions, and starting to build something different.
Real grassroots is not branding. It is people organising, sharing power and creating alternatives.
#climatechaos #commons #OMN #4opens #openweb #systemchange #deathcult
