#OMN (Open Media Network)

In the Open Media Network (#OMN), the commons represents both the foundation and the destination of the native #openweb.

We need to incurage people to better balance personal coping with collective power to challenge the #DeathCult as we are living through a time when the world is becoming harder to live in, yet the dominant message is that we must learn to cope better as i…

Over the last five years, the #Fediverse has been pushed down the path of copying corporate #dotcons: chasing raw user growth, building paywalled conference cultures, reproducing professional #NGO gatekeeping, and concentrating power around branded projec…

We have more than enough code, what we need is technology that helps people build power together.

Online and offline, we are living through an interconnected crisis of ecological breakdown, economic inequality, political disillusionment and social fragmentation that are not separate problems.

We don’t need to believe machines suffer to recognize that the system building them is already causing real harm.

The poison of #stupidindividualism is everywhere over the last ten years of social tech, the first thing that needs composting is treating structural criticism as only personal criticism, so instead of discussing the problem, they block the person raising…

This #blocking conversation on the #oxfordboaters chat is a intolerant conflict between trying to manage the immediate problem and building the collective process needed to stop the same problems recurring.

This mess is driven by climate breakdown, growing inequality, technological disruption, war, political instability and the weakening of democratic institutions are no longer separate problems, they reinforce each other.

The last five years have changed the #Fediverse.

I went to the #Oxford event tonight with a slightly awkward position in mind.

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.

Enforcing artificial scarcity when we finally have the technology to move towards a post-scarcity world is what’s driving us towards real scarcity.

The #Fediverse exists because the corporate #dotcons are not enough, we don’t wont more of turning our social lives into products, our relationships into #closeddata, and our communities into audiences to be managed.

In alt-culture paths we have meany problems, one of them is the #mainstreaming “colonize” what works, absorbing popular, fringe, and grassroots ideas, stripping them of their radical core, and adapting them to serve the common sense #deathcult paths.

There is a temptation to see today’s hard right move as something new.

There is a recurring argument about the #Fediverse that starts with a reasonable question of how can the Fediverse scale?

“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don’t want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole.

The old boat and the new boat One of the big experiments with the new #BoatingEurope lifeboat is to see how far we can move towards electric cooking and propulsion using solar power.

OK, lets not deny real risks, but also don’t accept the AI industry’s mythology as the starting point for discussing risks.

We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story.

The problem with #openweb funding isn’t simply rejection, waiting for decisions, or whether one particular project gets funded.

There is something revealing about the way powerful people talk about our future, when they imagine crisis, they imagine their escape.

The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox.

To understand and walk this, lets look at an example of the mess we need to compost – by lifting the lid on the current #AI noise.

I have to be clear about where I’m coming from, as I’m standing in what might generously be called an undefined position.

Currently we are to stuck in the liberal response to the current hard rightward shift, as they treat it like a fixed demographic fact.

The #OMN (Open Media Network) is “anything in, anything out” network operating through a mediated trust, designed to handle a diverse range of content, data and interactions while leaving communities with the power to decide what they do with that data.

Yes, the #web02 revolution was a con, it always was.

One of the simplest lessons from revolutionary politics is that power should stay with the people doing the work, not with a permanent party, bureaucracy, or managerial class.

We have already done a five-year voyage across 13 countries, travelling from the North Sea to the Black Sea, crossing the European continent through its extraordinary network of rivers, canals and inland waterways.

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Hummm this needs more thought… DRAFT The #deathcult is selling the void, turning meaning into a market, in this post we cover the normal themes of #stupidindividualism, commodification, atomisation, trust and community.

Techno #feudalism is a description of the power that large #dotcons technology platforms now have over the economy and society.