Hamishcampbell

@Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info

An organic intellectual, that's me :') Please ask questions here

Looking at the fluffy side of activism #NGO

#fedi22 #openweb #opensource #4opens #OMN #technology #tech #social #grassroots #activitypub #reboot #fluff

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Hamishcampbell, to random

Please take note this instance is shutting down due to lack of funds please move your account

Hamishcampbell,

Please move your account off this instance

" unless we can get sustainable funding for this instance it will shut down on the Renewal: 2023-11-12 which is the date of the next payment.

We have been talking about this for the last few months."

rooftopaxx, to random

Feargal Sharkey
"Thames Water to cut 300 jobs as it battles £14bn debt pile."
[twitter.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/1719992448489795903]

Not too sure how that's supposed to help them fix their leaks and to stop dumping their shit into our rivers?

Hamishcampbell,

@rooftopaxx was talking to an expert on this at an Oxford seminar, it seems they are going to go bankrupt as they have spent ten years boroing money to pay out as dividends and now have no resources left... it's beyond the level of mess...

Hamishcampbell, to random

At another event "How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis" let's see if this steps out of the pointless path of the last 3 events

Hamishcampbell, (edited )

Very good presentation, let's see if Q&A works.

Update: the middle guy likes to talk, about himself.

Hamishcampbell, (edited )

The speakers are all but the subject is radical, let's see?

Update he was a good truth teller

Hamishcampbell,

My question led to a very reactionary answer on social actavisam, a complete dismissal of politics and a clear democratic rejection of billionaires.

The is no agency for the needed change challenge he argues for, a bureaucratic plan with no path to implement it. Very

ajsadauskas, to startup
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

@technology

Hamishcampbell,

@ajsadauskas @technology

Yep is what we have been calling this for 20 years. It's a mess we have pushed over ourselves.

Hamishcampbell, to random

My use of is confusing a lot of people, good to have some signal in the noise on this subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext am using them in the way the was designed to use them.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

OK, had to close then open new accounts on because of , the spam is starting agen - the is an update that allows you to put new accounts on ask/moderation, we need to upgrade at some point to get this.

Hamishcampbell, to random

To find out what's going on with grassroots activist video on the have a look at the https://visionon.tv/videos/overview we have been bringing together the best of social change/challenge videos for the last 20 years online and at public screenings "don't drink from the mainstream"

Hamishcampbell, to random

@Loukas welcome back to the :)

Hamishcampbell, to random

This is how the works https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/20/bluesky-plans-decentralized-composable-moderation/ our ideas are going , but nobody is going to link back, even the term "compost".

Hamishcampbell, (edited ) to fediverse

The is going to be a general backlash in progressive tech and social projects, it would help to compost this mess, for people to not join in this mess making https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/a-place-to-talk-about-spreadmastodon-org-and-wider-issues-that-this-brings-up/3130/23?u=hamishcampbell examples from and different but both progressive social projects.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

What is doing now is going to lead to a lot of mess, duo to people squabbling. This might or might not be a level of mess that negates the vertical move to "simplicity" of a single codebase and a single instance. That would be a waste... and it was the king and his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite that are pushing this mess, good not to get confused about this part.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

The mess we are making https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1005
@mastodon mastodon locked as off-topic and limited conversation to collaborators

Because people were saying things like "This PR was not reviewed thoroughly, as is a decentralized way to access the Fediverse, so pushing a specific server is not beneficial for the network."

Hamishcampbell, to random

@robin loved the video, it touches on one aspect of the in our terms you can translate "mess" for "complexity" in this context, but I much proffer mess ;)

You arrive at the beginning of the from 20 years ago, these are all slow burning projects.

https://visionon.tv/w/qgpbyBTuJGvvpxagWYxkLX video should have a copy here on the when through encoding under the CC licence.

Agen loved the video, thanks.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

The is a mess that needs some composting https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/a-place-to-talk-about-spreadmastodon-org-and-wider-issues-that-this-brings-up/3130 and petition the king though his favourites on github.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

The is a collection of decentralized social networking platforms that use , allowing people to communicate and share content across different networks. These platforms are designed to be community-driven and to prioritize native culture, which is inherently unfriendly to capitalism.

Hamishcampbell, to random

It's interesting that we are finding it hard to move past the "policing" of language use.

Do you think this is useful to think of as legacy "stupid" that nobody can be more right than anyone else, maybe this is a good example of the capture of the idea of imperialism

Would be funny if it did not matter, we have so much compost to shovel.

Hamishcampbell, to fediverse

All the new non protocols are building their value on working within capitalism - it's their core "interoperability" selling point.

It would be better if we could make them say this more, so people had real information to choice where to step next.

Hamishcampbell, to random

culture comes from the principles and values of the early internet, where open standards and decentralized systems were prioritized over closed, proprietary ones. This culture is based on the idea of a free and open internet, where anyone can participate and create without the need for gatekeepers.

Hamishcampbell, to random

@duco OK in context weeding out people is nothing to do with genocide, this is obvuse just read in context, good faith is a start to overcome this. In the context, MOST people are a "waste of space" try thinking about the native tribes being exterminated by the incoming western culture - who here is wasters of the space?

The is about"unthinking" created by centralizing security - think what happens to the if Let's Encrypt goes down -an example of the recurring

Hamishcampbell, to random

https://visionon.tv/w/w19R29SCZPbQcpGEFCDfxF a video about a flying boat Braila to Berlin

Hamishcampbell, to random

The mess we made with our use.
Error 402: But How Do We Pay For Content? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/02/error-402-but-how-do-we-pay-for-content/

Hamishcampbell, to random

A wine reception after an Oxford seminar I come away with, "You are treating this as a personal issue, I am treating this as paranoid incompetence. Maybe mental health is a constructive way of mediating a better outcome." of meany people playing visible power plays I talked to.

Hamishcampbell, to random

If you want to take your data when this instance closes down, "You can request an archive of your posts and uploaded media. The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software. You can request an archive every 7 days." do this now

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