I wish I had a #DAT Walkman
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Chatsworth Rd: Stalls and Code
A DRAFT story about markets, misfits, and taking back the commons (Tagline: “They came for the avocados. They left with revolution.”)
by Hamish CampbellOutlineTHE MARKET STIRS
Chatsworth Rhythms
Setting the scene: It’s a Saturday in East London. The smell of jerk chicken, sourdough, and incense wafts over Chatsworth Road. A young stallholder, Luna (17), sells upcycled clothes and zines with radical poetry. Her best mate Jaz (18) roasts coffee in a converted horse trailer.
The street […]
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Chatsworth Rd: Stalls and Code
A DRAFT story about markets, misfits, and taking back the commons (Tagline: “They came for the avocados. They left with revolution.”)
by Hamish CampbellOutlineTHE MARKET STIRS
Chatsworth Rhythms
Setting the scene: It’s a Saturday in East London. The smell of jerk chicken, sourdough, and incense wafts over Chatsworth Road. A young stallholder, Luna (17), sells upcycled clothes and zines with radical poetry. Her best mate Jaz (18) roasts coffee in a converted horse trailer.
The street […]
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Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p
Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.
This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]
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Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p
Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.
This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]
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User Story #makeinghistory
The "User Story #makeinghistory" outlines a process for digitizing the #Campbell Family archive, which contains significant historical materials related to activism and political movements. The steps involved:
Setting up the Application: The archive sets up a desktop computer or a hosted VPS instance to install the #DAT/ActivityPub based#p2p application for "makeinghistory."
Uploading Digital Files: They use the application to create an account and start scanning and uploading directories […]
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Talking about p2p as a tool to use today
#P2P projects keep failing socially because adoption is tiny. The #Fediverse succeeds socially because it keeps social #UX familiar. The path forward is a half-step strategy: bridge #fediverse + #p2p in real, usable ways until decentralised clients are socially relevant.
We need: Bridges & killer apps, seamless UX that makes federated + p2p content feel like one stream. A server that reads from both channels without making the user care about protocols.
A. what is happening with […]
@gangrif @hamishcampbell @Nobodyknows789 @Larvitz Yes, there's Veilid, and GNUnet to name another. They are movements in the right direction.
@khleedril @gangrif @Nobodyknows789 @Larvitz
What do you think of https://dat-ecosystem.org/ as a building block of the #p2p part of the #OMN project?
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pretty much to the point.
but every additional "block" is the decay, so in a way they are on the path to self destruction already
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Building bridges instead of walls
Activist tech has been stuck in “bunker mode” for 20 years, and the only way out is to start building #4opens native, commons-first systems that store, share, and protect movement knowledge in ways that don’t require a priesthood of insiders to operate.
https://hamishcampbell.com/activist-tech-has-been-stuck-in-a-defensive-crouch/
In an active movement, forum threads, shared docs, livestreams, and photos aren’t just chat noise, they’re collective memory. If we treat them as […]
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The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths
Most of the mess, and most of the #blocking, comes down to the same old story – ownership and control. Who holds the keys? Who decides? Who gets locked out? Instead of wrestling in that cage, the #OMN takes a simpler path: we walk away.
We put a class of media into the commons, governed openly through the #4opens: open data, open process, open source, and open standards. That means no one can close it down, hoard it, or fence it off for profit. The value comes from the shared pool, not from […]
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The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths
Most of the mess, and most of the #blocking, comes down to the same old story – ownership and control. Who holds the keys? Who decides? Who gets locked out? Instead of wrestling in that cage, the #OMN takes a simpler path: we walk away.
We put a class of media into the commons, governed openly through the #4opens: open data, open process, open source, and open standards. That means no one can close it down, hoard it, or fence it off for profit. The value comes from the shared pool, not from […]
@hamishcampbell alright. will bookmark and revisit from time to time to align communication 🙂 thx
@serapath for the #DAT stuff to become relevant we need to bridge to #ActivityPubhttps://hamishcampbell.com/building-bridges-instead-of-walls/ then we have the 2 paths and people can choose without isolation and alienation of the current pushing of the #geekproblem
Diversity is the bases of any ecological system, we need to treat tech in this wider view #KISS
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Building bridges instead of walls
Activist tech has been stuck in “bunker mode” for 20 years, and the only way out is to start building #4opens native, commons-first systems that store, share, and protect movement knowledge in ways that don’t require a priesthood of insiders to operate.
https://hamishcampbell.com/activist-tech-has-been-stuck-in-a-defensive-crouch/
In an active movement, forum threads, shared docs, livestreams, and photos aren’t just chat noise, they’re collective memory. If we treat them as […]
Stories That Matter
We’re not just working on code. We're writing narrative.
In the outreach story Stalls and Code, #dat saves the day when DNS takedowns start happening.
In Oxford: Going With the Flow, we see #OGB and #OMN forming the backbone of an alternative society during #climatechaos.
These stories aren’t fantasies—they're roadmaps for resilience. They're how we reach beyond the technical bubble to bring others into the fold.
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... in peer to peer its different. There is no main or any instance to choose. you run it on your machine just like everyone else and connect directly... just like anyone else.
... in peer to peer its different. There is no main or any instance to choose. you run it on your machine just like everyone else and connect directly... just like anyone else.
no DNS to be censored. no big instqnces to bribe or take over... its literally unsinkable without shutting down the entire internet or boiling the ocean... and that will cause mich bigger problems and even that wont kill it entirely, because you can use bluetooth phone to phone or local wifi connections
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... if you have skilled professionals who could help built ecosystems for and with the people to change the game, its best to convince them that these systems need to be encrypted, anonymous, seceret, etc... ...of course to protect from eveil surveillande capitalists.... ...but by doing or following that narrative those systems get rendered impotent to cause change at massive scales, because that would require openness so others can learn and join... and they cant if closed
... if you have skilled professionals who could help built ecosystems for and with the people to change the game, its best to convince them that these systems need to be encrypted, anonymous, seceret, etc... ...of course to protect from eveil surveillande capitalists.... ...but by doing or following that narrative those systems get rendered impotent to cause change at massive scales, because that would require openness so others can learn and join... and they cant if closed
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Real world tackling the #geekproblem
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With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
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Real world tackling the #geekproblem
DRAFT
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
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what if instead of always-on feeds, we had digital gardens?
what if media responded to weather, to light, to rest?
what if the internet could nap?
solarsocial is another seed. a theoretical framework.
it’s not just for disruption. it’s for re-rooting.