Even small prefigurative practices lately in response to the surge of "AI" being used to further the worst parts of the internet - user tracking & commodification. Lately I have been finding a lot of these types of domains targeting users. Added them to my long-running public blocklist: https://github.com/RooneyMcNibNug/pihole-stuff/blob/master/SNAFU.txt

Feel free to use it. I "dogfood" to ensure of no breakage. I don't want anything in return, but additions to the blocklist, issue reports, etc. are all welcome

»#India|n court orders #blocking of #Proton Mail: the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/indian-court-orders-blocking-of-proton-mail/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-seagull-knows-notes-on-a-constipated-discipline/

Messy language feeds back into our culture

The #blocking of current action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with the mess our language makes. And the deeper issue is how this messy language feeds back into our culture, which then loops back to make the language even murkier. It’s a feedback loop that clouds meaning, erodes trust, and paralyses collective action.

The last 40 years of postmodernism and neo-liberalism have made this worse. #Postmodernism chipped away at the idea of shared reality, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/messy-language-feeds-back-into-our-culture/

One of my New Year's Resolutions has become a reality. I've drastically improved my block to engage ratio (although I still slip up from time to time). Took me this long to realize that there's no point in engaging with people who are sour, predisposed to hate me, or completely failing to understand basic shit. But, hey, better late than never! And it turns out I can stick up for myself BETTER this way. Because I have nothing to prove to these jackanapes. Ha!

Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error - https://torrentfreak.com/non-transparency-resumed-after-pirate-site-blacklist-publicly-exposed-in-error-250415/ #blocking #copyright

On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this is likely about you )

From where I’m standing, a lot of people are being absolute prats when it comes to social and technological issues. That should be obvious… but clearly, it’s not. We’ve got two basic paths here:

#Block everything you don’t like. Predictably, this just creates more prat-ish behaviour and pushes us all deeper into toxic bubbles.

Ask questions. Grow. Listen. Respond. This reduces prat-ish behaviour — over time, maybe even composts it into something useful.

Now, in the era of […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/on-being-a-prat-in-tech-and-social-spaces-yes-this-is-likely-about-you-%f0%9f%98%98/

If our current (stupid)individualism keeps #blocking, even if we don’t build any of this now, the work still matters. The #OMN is not a product — It’s a path you walk https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-not-a-product-its-a-path-you-walk/

The #OMN is not a product — It’s a path you walk

The #OMN project is #DIY, it only works if we build it together. This isn’t a startup pitch. It’s not a platform that magically appears out of nowhere to fix everything. It’s not a product to consume, it’s a path you walk. The direction is participatory, not passive. You don’t get to sit back and clap… or boo from the sidelines. If you do, the system won’t collapse, but it sure as hell won’t grow.

Let’s be direct, there is no saviour coder, no NGO white knight, no […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-not-a-product-its-a-path-you-walk/

Can people engage with the #4opens process?

The #4opens is a completely obverse social restating of the #FOSS development model — but with a critical edition: The return of #openprocess, something we’ve lost over the last 10 years due to our reliance on encrypted chat.With this in mind, what is still #blocking the #openweb reboot? One thing I’ve learned from the last five years of the #openweb reboot is this: The #geekproblem is inadequate for the scale of change and challenge we face. Currently, the #geekproblem is a HARD […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/can-people-engage-with-the-4opens-process/

A sharp take

In the end, all social action happens through generalized talk, categories, metaphors, shorthand. That’s how language works. But we live in a cultural amnesia where this is forgotten, mistaken for “common sense.” The #OMN embraces this messy, human space, while the #geekproblem seeks rigid machine-like CONTROL. They’re often technically right, but socially intolerant. We, by contrast, are often technically wrong, but humanly right. What we need is a bridge between these approaches, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-sharp-take/

Building #OGB is about power without #powerpolitics

If we want the #openweb to survive and thrive, we need new forms of power, ones that can defend the community and challenge traditional power dynamics without falling into the traps of control, hierarchy, and co-option.

The problem is clear: If we follow traditional power politics, which are built on control, manipulation, and exclusion, we will fail. We’ve seen this play out repeatedly, grassroots movements spark change, only to be then sold out and absorbed, neutralized by the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/building-ogb-is-about-power-without-powerpolitics/

It’s not easy, and it’s not as simple as clicking “sign up” and walking into a ready-made community

Q: Very interested in what you have to say. I've been trying to find a place in the #Fediverse that's not in thrall to big tech. How do I join up? #OMN #OpenWeb. Hungry, feed me!

A: This is harder than it should be, and that itself is a telling sign of where we are right now. The #Fediverse is a fascinating, messy, and diverse space, but much of it is still trapped in the gravity of the #dotcons. What you’ll mostly find are either clones of corporate social media—Twitter-like, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/its-not-easy-and-its-not-as-simple-as-clicking-sign-up-and-walking-into-a-ready-made-community/

The #NGO mess is hard blocking

We need to talk, again, about how the #NGO world pushes HARD BLOCKING over the native #openweb paths we need to take. This isn’t some new issue; we’ve been having the same conversation for years. And yet, here we are, watching the same bad behaver and the same mistakes repeating, only now, with the #mainstreaming flooding in, with more funding and institutional interference.

The simple antidote to this incompetence? Listen. Think. And stop blocking. Seriously, it’s not that […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-ngo-mess-is-hard-blocking-2/