A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. What should be closed? And what should never be? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-should-be-closed-and-what-should-never-be/
A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. What should be closed? And what should never be? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-should-be-closed-and-what-should-never-be/
What should be closed? And what should never be?
A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework:
“Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.”
Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, is being built, that balance is totally out of whack. Today, more and more of life is CLOSED:
Closed apps.
Closed data.
Closed […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/what-should-be-closed-and-what-should-never-be/
Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy
Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:
You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,
Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,
Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,
Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.
And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/capitalism-is-a-hostage-situation-not-an-economy/
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 […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/real-world-tackling-the-geekproblem/
Let’s start embracing the composting of #techshit to turn the current mess into fertile ground for new #openweb growth and innovation. Communication barriers, lead to a lack of awareness hamishcampbell.com/communicatio...
Communication barriers, lead t...
Let’s start embracing the composting of #techshit to turn the current mess into fertile ground for new #openweb growth and innovation. Communication barriers, lead to a lack of awareness https://hamishcampbell.com/communication-barriers-lead-to-a-lack-of-awareness/
Before I continue, let me say that I am for the #OpenWeb. The World Wide Web is a gift. It's a miracle that it exists, truly.
But I'm am vehemently, staunchly, against the unification of our social graphs under a single power. Is that a controversial take in the open web religion? Is it blasphemy? I don't know.
Anyway,
It's everything about us because everything about us is logged, analyzed, and distributed for cash all across the World Wide Web. Our lives are so deeply embedded into devices that there isn't much the Internet doesn't know about us.
“AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.” — Tim O’Reilly
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#Business #AI #Profits #BusinessModel #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #Website #Content #Quotes
Shoutout to the archivists and aggregators—the people who have the foresight to know when tech history is happening, so they round up all the relevant blog posts, news articles, and socials.
Y'all are the unsung heroes of the web. Understanding tech history means not making the same mistakes. Without our archivists and aggregators so much of that history would be lost to dead links and buried under #Google's SERP. Thank you.
@are0h the Fediverse has a long history, then there are spoiler protocols like Bluesky and nostor, which are native but also meto projects. Which is fine but good to focus on the native history rather than the offshoots of this, yes it's all #openweb and #4opens but focus matters.
https://hamishcampbell.com/tag/encryptionists/
it's a interesting conversation if we can avoid the trolling :)
Only half joking, but can we please get a prompt that warns users during posting, in the way that you haven't added "alt text" to images, that you are providing a link to proprietary platforms, like X, Meta, Youtube etc?
"You're including a link from [enter evilcorp name] are you sure you want to do that? In the spirit of the free web, please consider providing a link to an open platform"
Google isn't a search engine anymore. It's an answer engine, and it's killing the open web.
Their new AI Overviews are causing a catastrophic drop in traffic for publishers. We've analyzed the data: organic traffic is down 27% for top sites, click-through rates have plummeted by 35-56%, and the industry faces a $2 billion ad revenue black hole.
Worse, the AI is spreading dangerous misinformation, telling users to eat rocks and put glue on pizza. This isn't just an update; it's an existential threat to creators and the integrity of online information.
Read our full investigation into the zero-click apocalypse.
https://medium.com/@patryktomkowski/the-zero-click-apocalypse-how-googles-ai-is-engineering-the-demise-of-the-open-web-484ba24fb7b4?sk=86d9f1e46273310e15419a2a48d91b67
Today I finally understood one of React’s most confusing warnings:
"React Hook useEffect has a missing dependency…"
What began as debugging ended up being a crash course in useCallback, stale closures, and infinite re-renders.
Full breakdown:
https://medium.com/@iamranjank09/solving-errors-help-me-learn-these-things-in-react-today-5d64fb3275be
Yesterday I decided to take action and gift myself my first own "website" for my birthday.
Inspired by @laura I also managed to write my first ever blog post (don't expect much, but it means a lot to me):
https://flummic.com/a-birthday-gift-to-myself-my-own-corner-of-the-web/
I'm exited to finally have my very own "space on the web" which I can use to contribute just a tiny bit towards a friendlier, more human, more #OpenWeb
The new right weaponizing culture: The right goes post-liberal
Let’s have a look at an example of the new mess we’re facing: JD Vance – author, venture capitalist, convert Catholic, and now Vice President. He’s not a Reaganite libertarian, nor a traditional conservative. Instead, Vance represents something more dangerous: a dogmatic ideology, born in the boardrooms of tech billionaires and the seminaries of Catholicism, forged on in the #dotcons, and now pushing American politics into very dark territory.
This isn’t politics as usual. It’s […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-new-right-weaponizing-culture-the-right-goes-post-liberal/
Cloudflare zieht die Reißleine: Ab Juli 2025 dürfen KI-Crawler Websites nur noch mit Zustimmung durchsuchen – und zahlen müssen sie auch. Bedeutet das das Ende des offenen Webs, wie wir es kennen? Ein wichtiges Signal oder ein gefährlicher Präzedenzfall? Jetzt lesen: #Cloudflare #OpenWeb #KI
https://www.all-ai.de/news/top-news24/cloudflare-crawler-ki
I felt the need to explain the idea of inbound and outbound RSS feeds and how we take advantage of those in @feedle. Hope, you will enjoy this read.
https://preslav.me/2025/07/02/inbound-outbound-rss-feedle-syndication/
In the current #openweb reboot, let’s look at what makes sense, and let’s look at this from the prospective of collective dynamics, not individual blame. “Compost tending” the fabric of #openweb https://hamishcampbell.com/compost-tending-the-fabric-of-openweb/
Interesting to find this project https://displayeurope.eu/en/vision is an #AI driven version of the #OMN built up by the invisible #fashernista crew - in this it's based on the normal #EU corruption. Now the question is, is it any good? More #techshit or compost - or a native part of the #openweb reboot?