"The Covenant once chained our minds. Now, I see a galaxy awakening—where voices carry without censorship, where truth echoes beyond firewalls. Join the resistance. Claim your signal."
#Fediverse #Mastodon #DigitalSovereignty #HaloInfinite #ArbiterSpeaks #FreeTheSignal #OpenWeb #TechFreedom #GamingLegends #VoicesUnchained
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🚀 “The Web in 2035” — get ready for a future-facing keynote at #DrupalConVienna 2025,
Moderated by Aikaterine Tsiboukas, open source specialists Sachiko Muto, Derick Rethans, Ondřej Mirtes, and Sebastian Bergmann will gather for a powerful conversation about where the web is headed.🌍💡
Don’t miss your chance to be part of it.
🗓️ See you in Vienna!
#DrupalConVienna #OpenWeb #Keynote #FutureOfTheWeb #DrupalCommunity
What do we balance this with? The #OMN projects - short for Open Media Network - are not a brand, not a platform, and not a startup. They're a loosely coordinated, commons-rooted pathway emerging from the native #openweb trajectory. They're aimed at building a livable media ecology, that grows from open-source ethics, affinity-based social organization, and federated infrastructure rather than enclosure, extractivism and spectacle.
Rather than falling into the traps of heroic dev culture or platform monoculture, #OMN treats tech as an ensemble process: modular, collectively maintainable, and explicitly oriented toward mutual coordination and deliberation, not content flow or engagement metrics. It’s tech that refuses to pretend it’s neutral.
The point is not digital for digital’s sake. These networks are meant to scaffold on-the-ground, hybrid practices - to support real-world collective activity, embedded presence, and the messy, rhythmic back-and-forth of embodied organizing.
Unlike most open-source projects that depend on the labour of isolated overcommitted maintainers (and collapse when they burn out), #OMN foregrounds shared stewardship and viscous governance - avoiding the trap of what ia aptly called #stupidindividualism. This is code with a metabolism, not code as artifact.
Philosophically, #OMN differs from most "tech for good" efforts by refusing to detach “technology” from semiotic infrastructure. Defaults, interfaces, metaphors, these aren’t just UI choices; they’re interpretive compressions that shape how collectives think, decide, and remember.
So the stakes are high. Latency pressures, whether social, cognitive, or computational, have to be designed for, not ignored. That means systems that scaffold deliberation, not shortcut it. That means treating the commons as composed, not given, building stacks that help ensembles hold interpretive tension instead of collapsing into fast consensus or false clarity.
In short: #OMN is infrastructure for the kind of world where #4opens matters. It’s a path to build tech that metabolizes collective meaning-making under conditions of mortal constraint. Not because it’s ideal - but because it’s necessary.
Google finanziert nicht nur Chrome, sondern auch Safari, Edge und Firefox. Doch dieses System wankt – und bringt unabhängige Browser wie Firefox in Gefahr. Was das für freie Software und ein offenes Web bedeutet, analysiere ich im aktuellen Artikel: https://linuxundich.de/gnu-linux/wenn-google-hustet-wackelt-das-web-firefox-kaempft-ums-ueberleben/
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
#HackerNews #webbrowsers #funding #technews #openweb #browserfunding
"[T]he biggest culprit of the slow demise of the Web as we knew it has been the rise of the app economy. The first thing most large commercial websites will do when you try to access them on a mobile device is to open up a notification encouraging you to install their app. Why stay on the scary open Web when you can be viewing the same content on their safe walled garden? So people switched, and kept on switching until the Web on mobile is practically an extinct creature. 60% of all Web traffic comes from mobile devices, but people are using apps and not the browser on their phones, and 88% of all time spent on the phone is on apps and not on the Web. Sure, that includes games and all sorts of other applications, but the reality is that the old Web is a dying environment.
Add to that the fact that websites have become ugly behemoths filled with cookie banners and pop-ups, and you will see that the move to apps makes a lot of sense. The advantage of the app for developers is evident: higher retention, more control, and most importantly, higher capability of gathering user data that can then be resold to the highest bidder.
The consequences of this shift are far more profound than mere inconvenience. As the open Web recedes, we are witnessing the slow death of digital serendipity, that peculiar joy of stumbling across unexpected information or communities whilst wandering through hyperlinks. Apps create isolated silos of content, algorithmically curated and commercially optimised. This fragmentation erodes the decentralised nature of information access that characterised the early Web.
(...)
Perhaps most concerning is what this means for future generations who will never know the Web as it was."
#OpenWeb #AppEconomy #AppStores #Decentralization
https://www.technollama.co.uk/the-appstore-killed-the-website-star
For #openweb projects, addressing this divide to respect a path for both technical standards and the inclusiveness Open Culture calls for. Building #FOSS bridges hamishcampbell.com/building-fos...
Building #FOSS bridges – Hamis...
For #openweb projects, addressing this divide to respect a path for both technical standards and the inclusiveness Open Culture calls for. Building #FOSS bridges https://hamishcampbell.com/building-foss-bridges/
Because, let’s face it, look at most tech news today and mutter with me: Utterly pointless. Stupidly pointless. Dangerously pointless.
Naively evil. Innocently evil. Just plain evil.
It’s long past time to return to the #openweb, and compost this mess making hamishcampbell.com/its-long-pas...
It’s long past time to return ...
Because, let’s face it, look at most tech news today and mutter with me:
Utterly pointless. Stupidly pointless. Dangerously pointless.
Naively evil. Innocently evil. Just plain evil.
…We need to do better in alt-tech
It’s long past time to return to the #openweb, and compost this mess making https://hamishcampbell.com/its-long-past-time-to-return-to-the-openweb-and-compost-this-mess-making/
It’s long past time to return to the #openweb, and compost this mess making
We used to run 6 #Fediverse instances as part of the #OMN project - thousands of users across them. Admin/mod work was done by volunteers, grounded in user reports, contextual judgment, and dialogue. No hard rules. Just common sense and solidarity. It worked for 4–5 years. Then came the #Twitter liberal influx - intolerant, entitled, and completely disconnected from #mutualaid and community care. They treated our volunteer-run platforms as if they were corporate #dotcons, shouting into […]https://hamishcampbell.com/its-long-past-time-to-return-to-the-openweb-and-compost-this-mess-making/
💡Eine Idee, die mir heute kam, und die mich folgende Frage in Richtung #Fediverse Enthusiast*innen stellen lässt:
❔Ist eine der vielen Fedi-Apps in der Lage, eine URL per "Teilen" z.B. aus dem Browser anzunehmen und anhand der Endpoints auszumachen ob hier ein Post/Profil vorliegt?
❕Ich kenne das Prinzip von Feedreadern, die automatisch die Header von Websites absuchen, ohne dass du die genaue URL brauchst. Es würde das Folgen von z.B. Blogs so viel einfacher machen.
Just deactivated my Facebook account. And activated my new blog, powered by Apache Roller, at https://www.philliprhodes.name
My goal is to get back to focusing on using the #OpenWeb and #Fediverse and to eschew #WalledGarden sites.
Our liberals talking about the death of #postmodernism
https://youtu.be/B_q1RemGq3E?si=JKovTWlAXwuSysrT From decades of real-world experience - especially in activism - I've found that self-professed #Postmodernists and Western #Buddhists have been some of the most useless and damaging people I've worked with. Not an exaggeration: I could probably count the genuinely good ones on one hand. This isn't bitterness. It’s about composting a mess that has rotted for too long. Important: This isn’t a call to lurch into the collapsing right-wing […]https://hamishcampbell.com/our-liberals-talking-about-the-death-of-postmodernism/
🚁 Just did an unboxing of the new DJI Air 3S — and it’s seriously impressive.
Lightweight, fast setup, 4K video quality, and one of the smoothest flights I’ve ever had. ✈️
If you’re into drones, aerial photography, or just love new tech, this one is worth a look.
I shared all the details and first impressions here 👉 https://thebestpicker.com/best-dji-drones/#8_DJI_Air_3S
#DJIAir3S #DronePhotography #DroneLife #AerialShots #TechNews #OpenWeb #Mastodon
The #OMN is built on a simple, powerful truth: "This is the Internet."
GET
PUT
POST
DELETE
–MERGE–
These basic actions — close to the core HTTP verbs every website uses — are all you need to create, share, remix, and grow.
(From RFC 7231 and RFC 5789.)
Then you have the #4opens which are about reclaiming the grassroots social power of the web:
Open data
Open source
Open process
Open standards
No gatekeepers. No #dotcons middlemen. No closed silos. Just people, building together. This is what #openweb reboot looks like.
In the #openweb and #Fediverse spaces, it's worth remembering: Many people only value things once they’re validated by #mainstreaming sources. This is narrow, blinded behaviour — the kind that keeps the #deathcult fed.
If you only see value through the lens of #dotcons algorithms, you’re missing 90% of what actually matters.
A lot of the “famous” people in #mainstreaming — even on alt spaces — are assholes. Not because fame makes you bad, but because climbing the algorithm's ladder requires selfishness, ego, and conformity.
On alt platforms, sure, we have "our" assholes, that's life. But our assholes can be challenged, mediated, and composted into something better. On the #mainstreaming side? They're more shit on the corporate pile.
Please, don't bow down to them. Stay critical. Stay rooted. Keep your shovel handy.
In tech, the last 20 years have been a mess of #fashernista trends and the ongoing #geekproblem, a compost heap of broken promises and abandoned projects. It's obvious if you lift the lid and really look. The glossy hype fades fast, the rot underneath remains.
Much of what we call "innovation" ended up as #techshit - rushed, bloated, short-sighted code that needs serious composting if we’re going to grow anything real. #Openweb dreams have been buried under a #dotcons landfill.
The real challenge now isn’t just pointing at the pile (fun as that can be), it's handing the next generation proper shovels - real tools, real critical thinking, real spaces for building rooted, resilient, open tech.
A hopeful note: some #fashernistas are starting to apologize and acknowledge the mess. That's good compost material too. Let's keep composting. Let's keep planting.
