Check out the video from my March 5th presentation at the #Thrive2026 Democracy conference: “Reclaiming Our News Feeds” (22.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v4UL9W2dFA
More session resources are on:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/thrive2026
#openweb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Flipboard #VibeCoding #BlueSky #RSS
A note on the current voices speaking for the #Fediverse
Something that’s worth saying out loud: many of the people currently talking for the #Fediverse had very little to do with the generation that seeded this version. That doesn’t automatically make what they say wrong. But it does mean we should be careful about building strategy around their narratives. A lot of the early Fediverse energy came from the older #openweb traditions of hacker and #FOSS culture, experiments in federated infrastructure and grassroots publishing networks. The […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-note-on-the-current-voices-speaking-for-the-fediverse/
Curious if the Fediverse really is a better place? Watch the Berlin Fediday 2024 panel from FSFE — a lively dive into decentralization, Cory Doctorow’s call to "disenshittify the Internet", inclusion & safety. Perfect for curious builders & activists! #Fediverse #Decentralization #OpenWeb #Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSoftware #Fedidays #English
https://media.fsfe.org/videos/watch/c3a3ef93-268c-4f09-b794-8f8e4f71c049
Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford
There is a persistent myth pushed in our culture that intelligence - high IQ, academic credentials, elitist education - leads naturally to clear thinking. My organic experience suggests the opposite, what matters is disciplined, skeptical, freethinking curiosity. Without that, intelligence simply becomes a tool for defending whatever assumptions people already hold. This is one of the reasons many academic environments produce people who are, bluntly, credulous. Not because they lack […]https://hamishcampbell.com/disciplined-curiosity-beats-iq-oxford/
🚀 FediSuite ist live!
Der moderne Social‑Media‑Manager fürs Fediverse – für Creator, Brands & Communities.
✅ Mehrere Accounts verbinden
✅ Posts planen & sofort veröffentlichen
✅ Plattform‑spezifischer Composer (Mastodon, friendica, Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube u. v. m.)
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Influencer‑Take: Ohne Insights fliegst du blind. Mit FediSuite siehst du, welche Inhalte wirklich performen – und wann deine Community am aktivsten ist. Das spart Zeit, verbessert Qualität
und macht Wachstum planbar.
Mit dabei:
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Pleroma/Akkoma, Misskey & Co., Loops, PeerTube – alles an einem Ort.
👉 Jetzt ausprobieren: fedisuite.com
#Fediverse #Mastodon #CreatorTools #SocialMedia #IndieTech #OpenWeb
🚀 FediSuite ist live!
Der moderne Social‑Media‑Manager fürs Fediverse – für Creator, Brands & Communities.
✅ Mehrere Accounts verbinden
✅ Posts planen & sofort veröffentlichen
✅ Plattform‑spezifischer Composer (Mastodon, friendica, Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube u. v. m.)
✅ Bilder & Videos inkl. Alt‑Text
✅ Insights & Engagement‑Stats, Top‑Posts, Best‑Time‑to‑Post
✅ Historische Datenimporte – damit du Trends wirklich verstehst
Influencer‑Take: Ohne Insights fliegst du blind. Mit FediSuite siehst du, welche Inhalte wirklich performen – und wann deine Community am aktivsten ist. Das spart Zeit, verbessert Qualität
und macht Wachstum planbar.
Mit dabei:
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Pleroma/Akkoma, Misskey & Co., Loops, PeerTube – alles an einem Ort.
👉 Jetzt ausprobieren: https://www.fedisuite.com
#Fediverse #Mastodon #CreatorTools #SocialMedia #IndieTech #OpenWeb
Google’s role in democratizing entrepreneurship worldwide
Google’s tools are empowering #entrepreneurs #worldwide, lowering barriers, expanding access, and driving inclusive global #economic growth.
#GoogleTools #Entrepreneurship #OpenWeb #DigitalInclusion #SmallBusiness #TechForGood #GlobalEconomy
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/03/googles-role-in-democratizing.html
Un trésor historique: Benjamin Bayart à l'Ubuntu Party parle d'Internet, pouvoir et comment « casser briques » pour rebâtir un réseau plus libre. Conférence percutante et toujours actuelle pour les défenseurs des libertés numériques — à voir sur PeerTube ! #French #PeerTube #LaQuadratureDuNet #BenjaminBayart #UbuntuParty #Internet #LibertésNumériques #OpenWeb
https://video.blueline.mg/videos/watch/9a5e0ebe-955a-458c-89e3-4d3d0ca42882
Finally posted Jottit to Hacker News today. Was genuinely nervous about it. Spent ages on the wording.
90 minutes later: zero points.
I'm laughing at myself. All that build-up for nothing. Going to try again tomorrow.
Sharing a powerful perspective on the AI reality.
The AI "Junk Food" Crisis: An Engineer's Struggle
Mo describes the frustration and depression of watching his craft become obsolete.
He explains how his role has shifted from creator to a mere controller of code written by a machine at lightning speed, code that is impossible to verify manually.
A raw look at the human cost of the AI revolution and the dangerous acceptance of quantity over quality. #BackToHandCoding
https://peertube.uno/w/2CvYrBzVXyCY32Z3d4ZNmt
2026
Source: Mo Bita (YouTube)
Original Title & text:
"I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.
Is anyone else feeling like this?"
Contacts:
Mo Bitar
https://atmoio.substack.com/
https://x.com/@atmoio
https://shape.work
Thanks for watching!
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#AI #GenerativeAI #Coding #TechDepression #FutureOfWork #SoftwareEngineering #AIEthics #DevLife #CodeQuality #10xEngineer #BackToHandCoding #Linux #FOSS #OpenWeb #PeerTube #TechWorkers
@zenbrowser is so beautiful, innovative, and useful -- a great example of how a clear product vision can really add value even to a mature code base like #Firefox. Great work!
EU tech strategy, composting the mess
As #climatechaos accelerates, European politics will not stay where it is now. History suggests that periods of instability push politics to the right, because right-wing politics tends to be driven by fear and control. If that trajectory holds, then the digital infrastructure we build today needs to be resilient in a more hostile political environment tomorrow. This matters for the EU’s current technology strategy. Most policy thinking still focuses on industrial competitiveness - AI […]https://hamishcampbell.com/eu-tech-strategy-composting-the-mess/
New ThinkSystem essay live today.
Leading Through Fog — a framework for decision-making when geopolitical signals are ambiguous and waiting for clarity costs more than acting without it.
Covers the Red Sea disruptions, TSMC's resilience model, Maersk, and a practical fog navigation toolkit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/carlosraulmuozjr/p/leading-through-fog
#SystemsThinking #Leadership #Geopolitics #DecisionMaking #OpenWeb #ThinkSystem
I built a thing.
InboxToKindle converts your email newsletters into clean EPUBs and sends them straight to
your Kindle. Substack, Beehiiv, Ghost, Medium — all supported.
Free tier is 15 deliveries/month, no credit card needed. Pro is $10/month or $100/year.
#Kindle #NewsletterReader #IndieHacker #SelfHosted #ReadingList #OpenWeb
I had a small revelation about Jottit recently. I'd been thinking of it as a site builder: create pages, add a menu, set up a subdomain. Then someone on micro.blog just created a post and shared it with me, and it clicked.
Jottit is for putting stuff on the web. You create a page, share it. Claim it and it shows up on your profile. More like a blog than a site builder. So I spent the weekend redesigning Jottit.
https://jottit.org
#indieweb #openweb #blogging #smallweb
Ein neues Konsortium plant, Hürden beim Custom-ROM-Zugang abzubauen und damit Zahlungsoptionen jenseits von Google offener zu gestalten. Mehr Details bei Heise. https://www.heise.de/news/Bezahlen-ohne-Google-Neues-Konsortium-will-Custom-ROM-Huerden-beseitigen-11204008.html 🚀🔒 #Datenschutz #Android #CustomROM #OpenWeb
The #dotcons assume you want to be a techbro
One of the quiet assumptions built into almost every #dotcons platform is that the user secretly wants to become a #techbro. Not literally, of course, but culturally. You are expected to optimise yourself by building your “personal brand” to track your metrics. Engage with algorithmic growth loops by understand platforms, feeds, APIs, monetisation tools, creator dashboards. You’re supposed to treat communication as a kind of performance engineering problem. Most people never asked for […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-assume-you-want-to-be-a-techbro/
Shovels, Hashtags, and Revolutions: Digging Up the Roots of the #openweb https://hamishcampbell.com/shovels-hashtags-and-revolutions-digging-up-the-roots-of-the-openweb/ Digging out requires more than better technology or better policy papers, it requires collective action, memory, and courage.
OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons
For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer - Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make it so hard to change the needed balance of power in society? These question matters for working on the future of the society and most importantly the grassroots part of this: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-broken-institutions-and-the-need-to-rebuild-the-commons/
Shovels, Hashtags, and Revolutions: Roots of the #openweb
It’s obvious to everyone paying attention that the relentless push of #mainstreaming over the last forty years has not made society healthier or more stable. Quite the opposite, the result has been accelerating social disintegration and the rapid expansion of #climatechaos. When the current trajectory continues, the consequences are catastrophic. Over the next fifty years we are looking at millions dead and billions displaced by climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and the political […]https://hamishcampbell.com/shovels-hashtags-and-revolutions-digging-up-the-roots-of-the-openweb/
