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We’re exploring what a truly ethical, open, and human-centered social platform could look like — and your voice matters.

Whether you’re a creator, a casual scroller, or just curious about alternatives to Big Tech — we’d love to hear from you.

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Let’s rethink social media together 🌱

Tally Forms🧠 UX Survey – Exploring Ethical Social Media PlatformsMade with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

The wait is over! #76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase is out!

@kito99, @dhinojosa, and Ian start out the new year with #WebAssembly, #SemanticWeb, and #AI guru @bsletten. They talk about #WebAssembly, #LLMs, edge computing, and open source hardware. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to #AGI#DeepSeek, #OpenWeb, #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, Interplanetary File System (#ifs), and more. pubhouse.net/podcast/title-shi

From unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet mess

#Mainstreaming talk about the internet so often completely misses the point, yep, it’s the FT so no surprise there. The actual internet, the one we built before the takeover, is a culture of #4opens protocols, stitched together with moth-eaten mythologies and messy traditions. It was never clean or pure, but it was ours. What this guy in the article is describing isn’t the internet, it’s the #dotcons layer that’s been built on top of that original infrastructure. Worse, it's one we […]

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hamishcampbell.comFrom unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet is adding to the mess – Hamish Campbell
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"From unstoppable slop, to “enshittification”, to a digital world peopled by automatons, all of these ideas have a useful explanatory power. None, on its own, sufficiently captures the problem. The internet suffers from a cluster of disorders, some with overlapping symptoms and causes. I’m interested in uniting them all under a bigger tent, one that accounts for their similarities and for the role of human decision-making in bringing us to our current predicament.

Borrowing from the world of public architecture, I think of it as the “hostile internet”. Through deliberate choices, and some unintended consequences, the architects of the current consumer internet have created a thoroughly commercialised, surveilled and authoritarian space where basic functions are seconded to the extractive appetites of the monopolies overseeing the system. And it’s making us miserable.
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Like the Moynihan Train Hall, today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses which, to put it loftily, are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities — and their second-order social effects — in proportion with their billion-person user bases. The hostile internet is a witch’s brew of explanations for how one of humanity’s most important inventions has produced so much simultaneous prosperity, inequality, disruption and social upheaval.

The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner."

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Has anyone worked out an #althistory where TCP/IP and/or HTTP(s) were proprietary? Could the internet meaningful exist in such a world?

Working through some reflections on progress and private property for my blog Misaligned Markets and this topic came up with friends.

Maybe the question just boils down to what size network effect do you need for the internet to facilitate communications and commerce and does fragmenting it change that?

Feeling less and less inclined to put new content on my websites as AI scrapers regularly come by, ignoring robots.txt. How do you deal with that? Seriously? I don't want to feed their machines with machine readable data. I even considered using PDFs with text as images but that is wrong in so many ways...

#MutualAid posts?

Why don’t people boost #MutualAid posts? This needs a thread on trust, tools, and the current limits of our #openweb. Saw this poll recently: “For folks on here who don’t boost mutual aid requests, why is that?” – 0% followers don’t like – 8% I don’t like/agree – 63% I curate what I boost – 29% other/see comment One comment stood out: “Because #mutualaid is based on trust – we don’t have very good tools for this. So it's little better than charity at the […]

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hamishcampbell.com#MutualAid posts? – Hamish Campbell
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Finding a path in a messy world

Let’s get this out of the way, most new tech projects are pointless. That’s not an insult, it’s a cultural symptom. People are pushing things not because they’re useful, but because they can. And when every shovel is used to dig holes in sand, we’re not building anything, we’re flailing. From this experience, let’s build culture, not just code, because here's the hard truth, we’re losing the reboot of the #openweb by failing to nurture it. Yes, #mainstreaming people are […]

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hamishcampbell.comFinding a path is messy – Hamish Campbell
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We need news and personal as they are different things, they serve different social paths, then we already have encrypted chat for the group and personal private path, so this is likely a distraction, on the #openweb balance

So the only thing we actually need is news/personal. To put it into a more group way:

Truth (Innes)
Opinion (careness)

Then private (pervasion, is a foolish way of expressing this, things you prefer, don't feel safe to be public)

How we're expressing these paths matters.

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hamishcampbell.comReclaiming balance: News, personal, and the #openweb – Hamish Campbell
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