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hamish campbell

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An organic intellectual: Please ask questions here Political and tech - On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@hamishcampbell on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"Polanski said: "I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party. I'm a victim of antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party. You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it."

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Build locally, share openly, govern together, connect without centralizing is how we begin to grow a different future from the ground up. Composting the mess, growing the alternative commons paths hamishcampbell.com/composting-the-m…

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Hamish Campbell @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026

Stop watching billionaires perform. Start building the #openweb: grassroots media, shared tools and commons we control together. Less spectacle, more solidarity. Less worship of the #deathcult, more power in our own hands. #OMN #4opens

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Hamish Campbell @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026

We have a churning problem in #alttech. #ActivityPub grew from #PubSubHubbub, built on #AtomPub, built on #RSS - roots in the high tide of the #openweb. Since then, progressive tech has churned sideways, while people drifted to the #dotcons and we ended up in this #techshit heap.

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Hamish Campbell @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026

Our #fashernistas keep planting in sand, mistaking novelty for progress. The answer? Graft the “new” onto solid roots. Reuse what works. Build on the #openweb commons. Stop the churn, put down roots, build something that lasts. #OMN #4opens

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Hamish Campbell @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026

From #Indymedia and the early #openweb to #ActivityPub and #OMN, my work links the history of grassroots tech to the future we need to build. One big part of #OMN is slowing the tech churn and bringing the #fashionista path back into balance.

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Hamish Campbell @handle.invalid · 12/10/2026

We already have a huge pile of #techshit to compost. We don't need to keep adding to it. Reclaim what works, build on solid #openweb roots, and turn the mess into something useful. Get your shovel, let's compost, not churn. #OMN #4opens

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

At the end of the day, democracy comes down to trust. You have to trust people to make less of a mess than the alternatives: authoritarianism, rule by elitists, or the #deathcult logic of control from above. Democracy isn't perfect, it's the messy, human work of living together and sharing […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

From #Indymedia and the early #openweb to #ActivityPub and #OMN, my work links the history of grassroots tech to the future we need to build. One big part of #OMN is slowing the tech churn and bringing the #fashionista path back into balance. We already have a huge pile of #techshit to compost […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The next step for #OMN is to move beyond the assumptions that dominate much of twentieth-century politics and today's corporate tech. We don't believe people need ever more control, ownership and centralization to work together. We need trust, shared responsibility, decentralized networks and […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

There is nothing magical or entirely new about the ideas behind #OMN. Plumbing networks move water. Electrical grids distribute power. Neurons connect signals. Each works through connected parts, local relationships and flows. We can learn from these existing patterns instead of pretending […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

A trust-based network grows by creating new places for new flows of content. Base sites collect and publish material. Middle sites sift, moderate and aggregate it. Top sites present focused feeds, subjects, tags and editorial selections to wider audiences. The network becomes a living […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#OMN doesn't pretend that spam and low-quality content can be eliminated from the internet. The aim is to good content flows into the network, then trust and moderation guide it towards appropriate places - and away from spaces where it adds noise. Not everything needs to be deleted globally […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The #geekproblem tells us that better technology means more automation, more features and ever more elaborate paths. #OMN takes a different path. Endless automation can produce countless mediocre sites, all adding to the signal-to-noise problem. We don't need every site to do everything. We […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Trust-based networks grow in different ways. Some will become large, diverse communities with many admins and moderators. Others will remain smaller, close-knit groups built around shared interests and strong relationships. #OMN doesn't demand one perfect path, it provides a simple way for […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Without meaningful human moderation, federated networks face two familiar problems: the workload becomes unmanageable, or spam and low-quality content overwhelm the useful stuff. Automation alone cannot solve the social problem. We need communities that can recognize context, build […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#OMN, think about content as a flow. Each contribution moves through a network shaped by trust. People and sources that consistently contribute useful material can build trusted flows. Content that is more variable can be moderated before reaching wider audiences. Trust is not a badge handed […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The #OpenMediaNetwork (#OMN) is a trust-based project for federated networks. We want to build online spaces where useful information can flow between communities without being buried in spam, noise and corporate control. The key is simple: human trust, community moderation and people working […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The commercial #SPAM problem from mastodon social looks like its not getting fixed?

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

We do need to step away from this mess. #horizontalism #openweb #OMN #KISS

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The #fashionistas will take anything that starts to grow in the alt. They arrive when something becomes interesting, turn it into a fashion, commodify it and sell out the work, the world and the dreams that built it. Act before they take control. It's happening to something you care about right […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

We need to talk to our “left friends”. Keep it simple: Fear/control → right-wing Trust/open → left-wing Don't get lost in the labels, theory or #geekproblem. Keep the focus. What are we building, fear and control, or trust and openness? #KISS #openweb #4opens

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The #fashionista cycle feeds on attention, novelty and the absence of grounding. The antidote is the opposite, trust, continuity and community memory. Stay messy, stay grounded, stay real. #openweb #4opens #compost #KISS

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It interesting to see that the mainstreaming is now moving onto the subjects I have , like meany people native to the #openweb have been talking about for the last 20 years. now is the time we need shovels (#OMN) to compost the onrushing #fashionista mess and then #geekproblem reaction to not […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Conspiracy thinking isn't escaping the #deathcult, it can be another form of worshipping it. Instead of asking “what structures produce this?”, it asks “who is secretly doing this to us?” That is #stupidindividualism - structural problems reduced to hidden villains and individual heroes […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#ActivityPub is built as open standards, federation and trust. We already have a working example of the kind of left/open infrastructure we need. So maybe the answer is simple: Don't overcomplicate what already works. Build on it. #KISS #Fediverse #openweb

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

We have a conversation with #NLnet about this urgently needed project today hamishcampbell.com/why-you-should-h…

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Going to an Oxford event tonight where the #mainstreaming people will be idealistic about cynical politics - while I’m going to be cynical about idealistic politics. My mission is to stay positive, avoid the usual political trench warfare, and try to build bridges across that gap. There’s […]

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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱 @bammerlaan.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"Social media algorithms amplify right-wing content against young users’ preference" www.bi.team/press-releases/social-m… I finally re-found this study I read a few months ago, that deserves a lot more […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The mess we're in isn't because we don't know what works in activism. We do, the problem is getting people to do it instead of chasing pointless #fashionista trends. In activist tech, we have projects that can work, like the #OMN paths, and plenty that don't - yet the #NGO agenda keeps funding […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A view on what matters in our #openweb reboot hamishcampbell.com/engagement

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The Fediverse is social tech built by people03/08/2025hamish campbell Turning the lifeboat electric – Solar Power for down-river cruising25/09/2026hamish campbell The answer to the #dotcons isn't everyone becoming a sysadmin27/09/2026hamish campbell

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The #OMN is a practical tool for moving media objects through flows, adding metadata in a #4opens way. Put anything in, pull anything out. Build grassroots news, shared archives, or whatever your community needs. The tools are simple; what you build is up to you. #openweb #Fediverse […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The #OMN is a mission to flip the script, it's #FOSS grounded in the #4opens as a social movement, not just a code project. The path is detox the #UX - moving people from passive content consumption and addiction towards active, collective media-making. Not another platform to consume, a […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Hero worship is always a problem, it turns people into symbols, symbols into brands, and brands into excuses to stop thinking. Please don't be a #fashionista on this one, we have enough mess already. Ideas matter, people matter, but nobody needs to be put on a pedestal.

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

With our worship of the #deathcult, we forget the god underneath is called the #freemarket, a religion built around signals - price, profit, growth and capital tell us what matters - and we organize society around those signals. So here's an #openweb question - what happens if we replace greed […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult. It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel. We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem. Nice people are still do harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

In the #dotcons path to make the mansion more human, we have to make humans more like mansions. The #OMN problem is that we have built society as a mansion for the #nastyfew - private ownership, walls, gates and guns - while teaching everyone else to worship a #deathcult . The reversal is […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Our “solutions” are full of #fashionista thinking - the latest fashionable idea, wrapped up as progress, without asking whether it actually works. Maybe the #reboot starts with something much less exciting: go back to the basics by striping away the fashion, the #techshit and the inherited […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

There has been a lot of nuttiness and nastiness around social media for progressive politics over the last 10 years. Some of that history needs clearing up, if you helped push this culture, maybe it's time to apologies, acknowledge what went wrong and clear the air. Not for revenge, more so we […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Turn off your #adblocker for a while and you really see how poisonous #mainstreaming has become. Watching the advertising on Amazon Prime is a perfect example. Take alternative culture, strip out the politics, package the aesthetics, sell it back to us, then bow it down before the #deathcult […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

It’s easy to keep crossing wires between media and the personal. Media should be open - with clear sources, context and provenance, except where sources genuinely need protection. Personal data should be the opposite: private by default. #OMN #4opens #openweb #commons

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

For bridges to stand, they need foundations on both sides. Open process is about making those foundations visible. In too many “open” projects, the foundations are murky. Underneath the shiny open-source surface there can be rot, hidden power, gatekeeping and sometimes outright poison. We need […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

When we forget this, we build cathedrals that eventually collapse under their own weight. When we remember, we build compost heaps - messy, alive and fertile. That’s the #KISS path for the #openweb reboot. Keep it simple. Keep it open. Let ideas grow, fail, compost and grow again. #KISS […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

“Collectivism is the tool to destroy the disease of #neoliberal individualism.” But, the balance is way out at the moment. Too many zombies on both the left and the right, trapped in different versions of the same #stupidindividualism. The #OMN is building a network of online tools for […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social. I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution. We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

In #activitypub the is a core but confusing part of the speck. collections is in activity streams - steam - and in #OMN terms a flow. This part turned out to be core to the 20 year old #OMN project.

hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe8WoP9JYs Back in the day I was an expert on portable solar video editing setups, I used to earn a bit of money consulting for BBC journalists.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

A serious threat to our sovereignty: many communication infrastructures use Let's Encrypt for their SSL certificates. It's the open source way to have free certificates and secure communications. But what if the Trump regime puts your organisation on the list of the undesired, i.e. sanctions you […]

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hamish campbell @hamishcampbell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Why we are in such a mess “The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.” get off your knees #deathcult worshippers.

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