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ften more valuable than technically perfect tools that remain confined to narrow inward looking communities the same lesson applies across the fediverse we have seeded good technology but we re allowing the fashionistas and chattering classes to dominate the conversation while practical grassroots organising gets pushed to the margins this is a recurring pattern and one we need to compost the future of the openweb won t be decided by having the cleverest protocol it will be decided by whether we build communities around tools that ordinary people can understand trust and participate in technology matters but social process matters more that s the path we re trying to grow with omn and the 4opens the is a hierarchy of good evil in chat hamish campbell non classé 3 comments 15 07 2026 15 07 2026 1 minute a hybrid p2p look at the omn omn is not trying to replace servers with p2p that s never been the idea the interesting architecture is hybrid where each layer does what it is good at p2p isn t the answer it s a tool browser based p2p has hard limits a browser isn t a database phones aren t reliable servers people go offline storage is limited connections are intermittent if you build a system assuming every device is always available it simply won t work the path we need is that omn isn t trying to replace servers it s trying to change what servers do servers are good at availability are online all the time easy to reach they re ideal for caching indexing discovery search and temporary message retention they re also cheap enough that communities can run them trying to eliminate them is mostly ideology rather than engineering p2p shines at resilience and autonomy your phone is your primary editing environment it stores your drafts your identity and trust relationships it can synchronise directly with nearby peers or trusted nodes whenever they re available that doesn t mean every post has to live only on your phone forever think edge first not server free the omn architecture is closer to git than to bittorrent many copies many caches many paths no single point of failure servers cache because they re convenient peers synchronise because they produce the data archives preserve because history matters these are different jobs activitypub already points this way the fediverse demonstrates the pattern when instances cache remote posts users move between servers and archives exist independently nothing says there has to be exactly one canonical copy omn simply pushes this idea a little further storage is a social problem as much as a technical one the biggest mistake engineers make is assuming technology alone solves trust it doesn t communities preserve history archives preserve movements servers preserve availability but people preserve the meaning the goal isn t to eliminate hosting the goal is to avoid dependence on any single host this is where the 4opens become architecture rather than philosophy open data means your data can move open standards mean different storage methods interoperate open source means anyone can build another client or server open process means communities decide how long things are retained what is archived and who they trust the path isn t pure p2p or pure client server it s a federation of caches archives peers and communities each doing what they re best at that s a much more resilient model than pretending one technology can solve every problem the omn insight that distinguishes the path from most p2p discussions is the primary object isn t the file or the message it s the trust network content can be cached almost anywhere but trust identity moderation reputation governance is what needs to remain under community control that shift from moving data to maintaining trust is where omn differs from most previous p2p projects resources for current p2p https openhaven net prototype https www localfirst fm landscape hamish campbell non classé leave a comment 13 07 2026 13 07 2026 2 minutes our failure to mediate the mess the current ai boom is built on a huge contradiction you can see this in mainstreaming terms that ai companies are not paying the real costs of what they consume they haven t paid for the copyrighted material they trained on they haven t paid the environmental costs of the water and electricity they use they haven t paid for the pressure they place on public infrastructure or for the social costs of flooding the web with synthetic content yet ai services are sold below their true cost subsidised by investors gambling on future monopolies this should sound familiar as we saw the same pattern with social media with the gig economy with cryptocurrency first comes the hype then investor money then comes market capture only later do the public pay the real costs the problem is like every time before is not the technology itself it is that we re allowing it to develop within the logic of the deathcult where growth matters more than social value extraction matters more than care and monopoly matters more than the commons simply shouting ban ai won t solve this nor will pretending everything is fine we need to actively and democratically mediate this technology socially which means asking and acting on questions the tech industry never asks this is where the omn approach matters technology doesn t exist outside society as every technical system embeds social values whether intentionally or not if we leave the current mess ai is making entirely to venture capital big tech and the market we shouldn t be surprised when it reproduces the same inequalities and failures of those systems this mess is a part of our long standing geekproblem that technical culture mistakes technical possibility for social progress yes sometimes it is not driven by malice more often it s a feedback loop of arrogance and ignorance where clever engineering is assumed to be enough while questions of governance trust and community are treated as secondary or more likely ignored altogether the result is endless techchurn one wave of disruption after another each promising liberation while quietly or noisily reproducing the same concentrations of power we don t need to knee jerk reject technology we need to compost the culture that keeps producing these techshit outcomes the 4opens offer one practical path this needed path is not anti tech but it is pro society on the path we need to take the challenge isn t stopping progress it is widening the culture that guides creativity so technology can better serves people and the planet rather than the current narrow blinded interests of capital feeding the nastyfew that s the work of the openweb and the path of omn techno feudalism what changes what part can you play the openweb is one place to start keep it simple kiss build commons compost the mess the political centre created this mess four decades of neoliberal common sense deepened inequality weakened democracy privatised public goods and pushed us beyond ecological limits yet much of the centre still offers only more of the same better management of the deathcult rather than a path beyond it that leaves a dangerous vacuum if progressive movements cannot offer practical alternatives the far right will continue to grow by presenting itself as the only force willing to confront the crisis their answers are built on fear exclusion and authoritarianism but they resonate because they acknowledge that the old system is failing while the centre too often pretends it can be repaired simply defending the status quo is not enough nor is retreating into abstract radicalism disconnected from everyday life we need practical grassroots alternatives that people can participate in and build themselves this same pattern appears in technology our geekproblem isn t primarily bad code it s a culture of arrogance and ignorance technical communities often reproduce the assumptions of the wider society without questioning them they celebrate disruption while recreating centralisation they mistake individual freedom for collective liberation reproducing stupidindividualism while unconsciously serving the logic of the deathcult this isn t usually malicious it s a feedback loop the culture produces the technology and the technology reinforces the culture the answer isn t to reject technology it s to mediate it socially the 4opens offer a simple path open data keeps knowledge in the commons open source keeps tools accountable open standards prevent enclosure open process ensures communities not just developers or investors shape the progress we need to use this to composting 40 years of common sense for the last 40 years neoliberalism and postmodernism have shaped what passes for common sense in mainstreaming society their influence runs so deep that many assumptions now feel natural rather than ideological when these assumptions are challenged people react defensively not because they re bad people but because their worldview feels under attack this isn t just a mainstream problem activist spaces reproduce the same patterns the result is endless circular arguments performative politics and fragmentation rather than solidarity our task isn t simply to oppose this culture it s to mediate it to compost the mess rather than pretend it doesn t exist composting means taking the waste of the last forty years failed assumptions captured institutions techchurn fashionista politics and individualism and turning it into fertile ground for something better the worrying trend is that the grassroots signal is being submerged beneath an echo chamber of mainstreaming voices on many fashionista threads noise overwhelms practical action we spend time performing politics rather than building the infrastructure movements need that requires empathy patience and practical organising it means creating spaces where people can step outside inherited common sense without feeling they have to defend it it means building working alternatives instead of only criticising broken systems the answer isn t to shout louder it s to build better spaces better tools and better processes the signal to noise ratio can change again but only if we do the patient work of mediation trust building and commons creation the work of omn hamish campbell non classé leave a comment 12 07 2026 14 07 2026 4 minutes the hidden costs of worshipping the deathcult one of the successes of neoliberal capitalism has been convincing us that we re paying less while actually paying more they promise lower taxes then they privatise the services health insurance becomes a private tax car finance becomes a transport tax rent becomes a housing tax student debt becomes an education tax the electricity surcharge for ai data centres becomes another hidden tax you voted to reduce taxes but all that happened was public taxes became private payments to corporations a vote for tax cuts too becomes a vote for hidden taxes the same trick plays out across the digital world we re encouraged to embrace platforms and ai systems that consume enormous amounts of energy degrade the quality of public knowledge undermine independent publishing harvest our personal data and concentrate even more power in the hands of a handful of tech oligarchs we re told this is innovation but it s mostly enclosure the latest scandals around elon musk and his political networks aren t the real story they re symptoms of a deeper problem billionaires don t simply own companies they increasingly shape media public debate infrastructure and politics itself this is what the deathcult looks like in practice private wealth buying public power one path we can take is not simply replacing one billionaire with another or one political party with another it s rebuilding the commons public goods instead of private monopolies community media instead of billionaire media the openweb instead of the dotcons and economic democracy instead of oligarchy that s why omn exists not simply to criticise the mess but to build practical alternatives to mediate the mess as the next crisis arrives why we use the deathcult hashtag hamish campbell non classé leave a comment 11 07 2026 11 07 2026 1 minute why we use the deathcult hashtag people sometimes ask why i use the hashtag deathcult it isn t just a provocative label it is to name the dominant political and economic logic that has shaped the last forty years by deathcult i mean the era of neoliberalism a system that treats endless economic growth privatisation and competition as unquestionable common sense even when the consequences are ecological collapse growing inequality and social breakdown i call it a cult because like any successful ideology it becomes difficult to see from the inside its assumptions become so normal that alternatives appear impossible margaret thatcher s famous phrase there is no alternative sums this up perfectly the death part has become harder to ignore due to movements like xr extinction rebellion the reality of climatechaos has entered mainstream discussion we can now see that continuing on our current path means ecological collapse mass displacement and the deaths of millions and displacement of billions of people over the coming century of course neoliberalism is not something entirely new it is an extreme form of capitalism and history has seen similar periods before one example is britain s response to the irish potato famine where market ideology took precedence over human need contributing to mass starvation displacement and suffering after the second world war many countries moved towards forms of social democracy capitalism was softened by stronger public services labour rights and welfare systems these reforms were far from perfect but they recognised that completely unrestrained markets created instability and injustice in part this liberal golden era was held in place by there being an alternative of soviet communism from the late 1970s onwards much of that understanding was forgotten deregulation privatisation and financialisation became the dominant ideology once again politicians like jeremy corbyn and bernie sanders represent attempts to move back towards that earlier social democratic settlement though this compromise path of social democracy is not a final answer as it still operates within capitalism but it is certainly preferable to the neoliberal model that currently dominates as radicals though we should aim higher we need to build systems based on commons cooperation ecological responsibility and democratic participation not simply manage capitalism more fairly this is where omn open media network comes in the problems we face are not only economic they are also about communication today s digital infrastructure is dominated by dotcons corporate platforms that monetise attention shape public debate and concentrate power facebook google apple x and similar platforms have become essential infrastructure while remaining accountable only to capital rather than communities...