Introducing OMN: A Trust-Based Project for Federated Networks
In the ever-expanding digital landscape, where information overload and spam are commonplace, there's a crucial need for a trust-based project that emphasizes human moderation and community cooperation. Welcome to OMN – a unique initiative that aims to leverage the power of human moderation to foster federated networks and genuine online communities.
The concept is simple: every piece of content, known as a "flow," goes through a trust-building process. When users create content, it's either trusted – indicating a consistent track record of quality contributions – or moderated when the content varies in quality. This dynamic approach ensures that the system scales effectively by encouraging users to build trust links with one another.
Without this human touch, a network's workload quickly becomes unmanageable, or it's overwhelmed by irrelevant or spammy content, rendering the sites useless. This core feature of OMN is designed to encourage the growth of human-scale federated trust communities.
To maintain a useful site, two key outcomes are possible: the creation of large, diverse communities with a broad spectrum of admins and moderators, or the establishment of smaller, tightly-knit trust groups focused on quality connections. Both outcomes are valuable and central to the essence of #OMN.
While automation might seem tempting, it risks creating countless middling-quality sites, leading to a signal-to-noise problem. In the end, this could undermine the entire network. OMN's philosophy is rooted in the idea that "less is more" – a deliberate move away from the #geekproblem of endlessly improving tools.
OMN addresses the challenge of managing spam and low-quality content by allowing them to flow into the network and then guiding them away from the quality areas of the network.
One unique feature of OMN is its organic growth model. New sites may need to be set up to allow new content to flow in, spreading the network wider and narrowing the focus. This leads to an ecosystem where base sites feed into middle sites, which in turn feed into top sites, creating a robust network interconnected by quality tags, subject feeds, and editorial articles.
Surprisingly, OMN inverts the traditional value pyramid: the top sites are easier to set up and manage but hard to add value to. The core of the project lies in the middle sites, where content is sifted and aggregated. The real value, however, remains at the base where content is created.
OMN operates on the principle that there is nothing entirely original in its approach – it draws inspiration from how plumbing, electrical grids, and even the neurons in our brains function. This embraces the concept of #nothingnew as a fundamental pillar of the project.
In the next step of the #OMN project, the focus is on stepping away from the dominant ideologies of the 20th century and building social technology based on a different vision of human nature. Unlike other projects, #OMN is all about simplicity and decentralization, emphasizing people and community control and social connections. It's an invitation to break free from the confines of the past and shape the future of online communities.
In #nothingnew, it's absurd I have to click to agree to legal agreements that contain 13,000 word of gobbledygook just to get basic communication from my child's school.
Dude will tie themselves into knots rationalising their desire to be selfish by citing everything between Aristoteles, John Dewey, and utilitarianism, in lengthy hyper-complex intellectual posturing that basically just boils down to:
The are some things to learn from in the past and there are many things in the future we do not won't.
Live and learn, I use a polemical hashtag #nothingnew to highlight the mess we make with the 40 years of #deathcult worshipping (neoliberalism) and philosophical poison of the dead #postmodernism of the last 40 years.
@woodbark the are some things to learn from in the past and there are many things in the future we do not won't.
Live and learn, I use a polemical hashtag #nothingnew to highlight the mess we make with the 40 years of #deathcult worshipping (neoliberalism) and philosophical poison of the dead #postmodernism of the last 40 years.
Just a reminder, treating everything as a personal conflict is unbelievably stupid thing to do #stupidindividualism is a mess we keep adding to #nothingnew
Discussing #postmodernism and the criticism to “isms”. The idea is that blindly following a particular ideology can make a person a “zombie” to limit the ability to think critically. The phrase #nothingnew is used to suggest that fresh thinking on old issues is needed, rather than blindly following existing dead #mainstreaming ideologies. The use of ad hominem arguments, which is a type of logical fallacy that attacks an individual rather than the argument they are making, is clearly #blocking
The "culture" and assumptions behind these projects differ. #bluesky comes from Twitter, which has a history of surveillance capitalism, while #Nostr comes from the #Encryptionists and #bitcoin communities. #activertypub, on the other hand, is rooted in the #4opens traditions and the #openweb.
Bridges are good, we should piss on any new protocols that don't have at least one bridge to an existing #openweb protocol, and pissing is not just a metaphor, it helps to short out their servers.
Projects are all based on ideology- #BlueSkySocial is capitalism, monetization is a core priority, just like twitter they are leaving it out at the start as the usual #dotcons bait and switch.
The tech might be different, but the world view is #nothingnew in a bad way.
The #Fediverse is built on a different world-view which is why it is important, the tech in both cases is secondary.
"All code is ideology solidified into action – most contemporary code is capitalism"
Quite enjoying the vibe at #blueskysocial, but also having a damn hard time with going back to so few characters to post with. Six months on Mastodon has really got me obsessed with the freedom to blog in a post. And editing! You can't edit your posts on bluesky, argh!
@mikestevens projects are all based on ideology- #BlueSkySocial is capitalism, monetisation is a core priority, just like twitter they are leaving it out at the start as the usual #dotcons bait and switch.
The tech might be different, but the world view is #nothingnew
The #Fediverse is built on a different world-view which is why it is important, the tech in both cases is secondary.
"All code is ideology solidified into action – most contemporary code is capitalism"