We do need to step away from this mess.

#horizontalism #openweb #OMN #KISS

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

To make machines more human, we have to make humans more like machines.

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 simple - don't make humans […]

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

“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 […]

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.

The point of the #OMN gets buried under the tech, strip it back and the idea is simple, and quite radical - people and content are commons objects by default, private or owned only by exception.

The #dotcons work the other way around: enclosure and ownership by default, openness by exception […]