The way out? Stop arguing about branding and intentions. Apply the #4opens: open data, open source, open standards and open process. A simple test to compost 95% of the #techshit, so we can focus our limited energy on what actually matters: building grassroots power and a living #openweb.

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

The tech is plumbing. The political/social idea is much simpler - commons by default, private by exception. People and content participates in open flows.

#OpenData
#OpenSource
#OpenProcess
#OpenStandards

The #4opens are the practical framework for making this work. Keep it simple. Keep it […]

People and media become objects in shared open flows rather than things to be enclosed and monetized.

Simple enough to sound like common sense.Radical enough to challenge the #dotcons.

#4opens #openweb #KISS