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Hamish Campbell

Why does any of this matter?

Because power matters, and power is never given – it’s taken, built, and at its best, shared.That’s why we care. That’s why the #Fediverse matters.

Let’s rewind: Private property wasn’t born from reason or consensus. It came from someone with a club drawing a line in the sand and saying:

“Cross this, and I’ll kill you.”

That’s the origin of power in the current #mainstreaming paths – violence, enclosure, and exclusion. This is not the foundation of the #Fediverse.

The […]

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#fediverse#mainstreaming#openweb
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Hamish Campbell

Telling Our Stories: Activist History and the Parasites of #Mainstreaming

All activist history is soaked in struggle, not just against the oppressive systems we set out to confront, but also internally, against the deep currents of sectarianism that fracture our own movements. The history of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp offers a vivid example. The colour-coded gates, yellow, red, blue, were more than navigation markers. They were flags of ideology, staking claims in this radical space, spreading stories. This was strength. It was a reflection of our […]

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#deathcult#mainstreaming#makeinghistory
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Hamish Campbell

A call-out for collective tech with teeth

It’s important to be honest about the landscape we’re working in. Just about every so-called “alternative tech” or #opensocialweb event – especially those run under the #NGO banner – is riddled with institutional parasites. They talk a big game about ethics, governance, and decentralisation, but their main role is to capture energy, not release it. The value in these spaces is minimal, maybe a few decent corridor chats, but structurally, they serve the status quo.

What we’re seeing […]

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#blocking#feudalism#foss
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Hamish Campbell

Evangelicals and the hardright

We’re seeing a pattern here in the UK similar to what Kristin Kobes Du Mez maps out in Jesus and John Wayne, the rise of hypermasculine, nationalist evangelical Christianity that’s far more about power than faith. It’s a core part of politics across the Atlantic for decades, and now the same push is happing here in the UK

Oxford city center, well funded free propaganda

In the US, white evangelicals didn’t back Trump despite his obvious corruption and lack of basic Christian values – […]

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#classwar#mainstreaming
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Hamish Campbell

The Fediverse is opening, but there is a cost

With the #Fediverse gaining increasing #mainstreaming attention, we’re entering a familiar cycle, an influx of well-funded #NGO-branded projects trying to "fix" the #openweb by reshaping it in their own narrowing and to often blinded paths. Take this year’s #chatteringclass event, #FediForum. Alongside breathless praise, last year, for #Threads joining the #opensocialweb space, we’re seeing the launch of shiny new tools: #BonfireSocial, #Channelorg, #Bounce. That promise innovation […]

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hamishcampbell.comThe Fediverse is opening, but there is a cost – Hamish Campbell
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#bonfiresocial#bounce#channelorg
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Hamish Campbell

The wall of funding silence

In the sprouting landscape of #openweb infrastructure, it’s not just code that gets ignored, it’s the possibility of change itself. Projects like #makeinghistory, part of the wider Open Media Network (#OMN), aren’t asking for much. They’re not flashy. They’re not political in the mainstream sense. They just quietly build the back-end tools that allow people to document their histories, publish from the grassroots, and hold space for the memory of struggle that shape our […]

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#changechallenge#deathcult#funding
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Hamish Campbell

Collaborative futures “Go Outside”

A brief literary diversion to get back to our coding and #UX design. In the book News from Nowhere, William Morris invites us to dream, but more than that, he asks us to build. Written in 1890, this visionary novel imagines a world beyond capitalism: no money, no bosses, no state, just people living together in beauty and cooperation, with practical labour, shared resources, and a deep reverence for the land. For the Open Media Network (#OMN), Morris’s imagined future is not a quaint […]

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#mainstreaming#omn#openweb
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Hamish Campbell

Telegram is dieing

Telegram partnering with Elon’s #AI to distribute #Grok inside chats is a clear line crossed. This matters because private data ≠ training fodder, bringing Grok (or any #LLM) into messaging apps opens the door to pervasive data harvesting and normalization of surveillance.This is an example of platform drift: Telegram was always sketchy (proprietary, central control, opaque funding), but this is active betrayal of its user base, especially those in repressive regions who relied on […]

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hamishcampbell.comTelegram is dieing – Hamish Campbell
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#AI#dat#dna
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Hamish Campbell

The false continuity

What we have now is context collapse and the false continuity of liberalism. Academic and policy discussions often assume that the current liberal framework will somehow persist, that the road ahead is bumpy but ultimately paved. But climate science, geopolitics, and resource decline say otherwise. The liberal "centre" cannot hold under these pressures. Equatorial regions, facing escalating climate collapse, are the canary in the coal mine, they are slipping into post-political spaces where […]

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#dotcons#fashionista#mainstreaming
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witchescauldron

“Use and abuse” is a good strategy for dealing with the #dotcons while they continue to dominate our digital and social infrastructure. Why? Because refusing to engage with these platforms outright is the equivalent of shouting into the void - or living in a cave. And caves, while romantic to a certain type of purist, are never effective social solutions.

The truth is this #dotcons are still where the #mainstreaming people live, and mainstream attention is power, even if borrowed. As radicals or progressives, using their platforms to push counter-narratives, while simultaneously undermining their legitimacy and building our own #openweb independent infrastructure, is both necessary and strategic. Think of it as exiting from within by using their reach to grow the seeds of our native alt-path.

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Hamish Campbell

Maybe we don’t then get the guillotine out…

Because current #mainstreaming, centrism, comfy pointless political “maturity” worked out so well, the last time we had a hard shift to the far right in the 1930s. Those "well-meaning" liberals at the time were patted on the back for their reasoned takes and rewarded for their civility right before it ended in a world war. That’s the dirty compost of history we’re all standing in today. Fast-forward 100 years and today’s centrist are pretending not to smell the rot, their […]

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hamishcampbell.comMaybe we don’t then get the guillotine out… – Hamish Campbell
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#deathcult#dotcons#fascism
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Hamish Campbell

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

DRAFT We live under a system, global capitalism, where value is determined not by care, connection, or any collective well-being, but by market logic. If something is not valued in that narrow logic, it is treated as waste. If you don't actively value the alternatives - you will "accidentally" destroy them. This applies to tech, culture, nature, and community.Tech has a problem of misplaced value, people still keep using #mainstreaming tools - the platforms and apps of the #dotcons - […]

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hamishcampbell.comThe Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them – Hamish Campbell
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witchescauldron

@ben It's a bit more complex than that. The real issue is that very few of us believe the #NGO and #mainstreaming paths can actually lead to the outcomes many of us have been trying to build through the #4opens reboot we've worked on for over 20 years.

In fact, much of the experience you're highlighting are red flags for failure - rather than signs of "native" common sense. :)

It's important to balance these perspectives. And yes, the issues you’ve raised are real—but the #mainstreaming solutions being offered aren’t the way out of this mess.

Always good to have material to compost: hamishcampbell.com

hamishcampbell.comHamish Campbell – An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
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witchescauldron

#NLnet #NGI Not surprising - think this is the nearly ten applications we have put into this fund over the last years.

"we have identified the projects we will be further investigating for the February 2025 NGI0 Commons Fund open call. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your project "Open Governance Body #OGB" (2025-02-032), "#indymediaback" (2025-02-036) and "#Makeinghistory" (2025-02-040) unfortunately were not among those selected.

Again, we are very sorry that we cannot offer you support for your good efforts. We hope you are not discouraged, and are able to secure funding elsewhere .

And do trust that we have your funding need and the outline of your project in the back of our head from now on, and so we might come back to you if an opportunity arises (unless you asked us to destroy your contact details in the application form, in which case we will do so)."

Well, let's keep applying for these native #openweb projects. But looks like the is no #mainstreaming support for alt activism tech - we have to do this our selves you can support this work here opencollective.com/open-media-

opencollective.comOpen-Media-Network - Open CollectiveOMN is a project to reboot the original #openweb as a useful tool for progressive social change and challenge
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Hamish Campbell

The #nastyfew, billionaires funders fear informed, educated public

The #nastyfew are now building bunkers, literally, escaping with their bodyguards when the shit hits the fan. That’s the plan. No fixing the mess, no community care - just winning and escape. It’s #deathcult logic all the way down from now on - with pushing #geekproblem tech fixes as a cross fingers wing and a prayer, to stop any grassroots drift to green sustainable alternatives. This is simply the next stage of the #deathcult worship of endless growth, and infinite tech […]

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witchescauldron

The #mainstreaming of the #Fediverse and is "working" chattering classes youtube.com/watch?v=cVnrMGVKQa on a negative note these are the #friendlyenemy, on a positive sense we are all in this together.

But a strong smell of the vertical path - some are more together than others, and money is the currency of this difference.

This is not native to the #openweb, but more to our "common sense" paths.

There is a signal-to-noise issue, which if you ask them they will admit, but then in practice ignore.

"Chattering classes" are a problem group in progressive movements.

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Hamish Campbell

World of war – The global battle for industrial supremacy

I just was at a talk from the Oxford University. The rise of economic nationalism and the return of state power - While the speakers skirt around key terms like socialism and justice, the implications of what’s discussed are clear, the #neoliberal era is ended, and what comes next is still being shaped.Economic Nationalism is a reaction to the rise of China, the talk explores how China’s rise has catalyzed a shift across the rich world - from the free-market dogma of the last 40 years […]

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#climatechaos#deathcult#eu
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Hamish Campbell

What we need is useful compost layer’s for growing native projects

Compost, not illusions, is a first step - A radical look at “light green” tech - For a second step we need a useful compost layer for growing native projects, like the #OMN. What we currently have in most so-called “green technology” promoted through #mainstreaming and #fashernista narratives is not ecological in substance - it’s performative environmentalism, built on omission, distortion, and branding. To help make sense of this mess, let’s use the lenses of the #4opens, the […]

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#deathcult#degrowth#fashernista
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