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Time for the semantic web? That's the #OMN project from the bottom up. Most semantic web projects are top down and pure #geekproblem :) make the right choice.
Found a circle on the #openweb talking about the #geekproblem the issue at the hart of the problem is that geeks can't see the problem. Go round a few circals with them and arrive no nearer them seeing the problem.
Q. What is the geek problem?
http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/2020/03/12/the-currency-of-the-21st-century-is-information/ talking to the #geekproblem is needed if we are to save what remains of the #openweb
Problem terms #geekproblem a teenage mix of arrogance and ignorance that is pretty universal and #dotcons a self interested pushing of greed over human need. All basic stuff that it's good to have an opinion on and would definitely be a bad thing not to have an opinion on ;)
The #geekproblem fight between open/closed is a dangerous game of figleaf. Media is always done in the open so trying to secure and close this is completely self defeating. In social networks its more complex, privacy is open is sudo anonymous at best. In closed in theory you can have secure p2p connections l, but for 99.9% of people running on standard corporate hardwere the is no way to trust this so agen sudo anonymous. So technology could be "secure" for .001% of people maybe.
A lot of the more tech minded run workshops on campining on #dotcons as our ones healthy #openweb tools were ripped apart by the #geekproblem
You guys need to get busy with spades to compost the shit you spread around in the digital world. And spreading more shit just makes the alt a more smelly uninvited.
I put up with years of trolling on this subject. it's a good time to balance this and for the first time do something useful #omn
Some counter intuitive thinking:
The fedivers has little original in the code bases, they are rebuilds of existing #dotcons this is a part of why it grew, when all the other #geekproblem projects withered.
With this in mind we reboot a #grassroots successful project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Media_Center (not the best history of the project but it's what we have) taking into account why it died and why it worked.
If we build in automation then we will have lots of middling quality sites that are borderline usefull. A signal to noise issue. The will be less motivation to spesherlise and the network will likly fail becouse of this.
less is more is a core of the project. The #geekproblem is the desire to improve the network with better tools ;)
"A look at the #geekproblem
In the alt tech, everything is broken. At the heart of this is an assumption that control and certainty are needed for good software. Were in reality software matches the human condition of transentery/lossy. Trying to force the first ideal is why most of our alt projects do not work. This is the base of the #geekproblem "
looking back at #indymedia video the outcome of all this http://web.archive.org/web/20110920222307/https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/DiyMediaLabs was largly woffal and hot air.
Our history is poorly told.
Looking back at the hitory of video #indymedia the documentation is deeply #fashernista and had heaps of #geekproblem in it http://web.archive.org/web/20110121132854/https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/VideoActivismFAQ
The #geekproblem has strong blocking energy on radical tech.
Ideas/strategies to mediate/overcome this unspoken block?
Idea to escape the media manipulation that puts Trump and Johnson into power and will keep doing this as its the business models of #dotcons and #tredtionalmedia Were are the tools to organize. Am asking a simple question and giving a simple sulution #DIY with as strong a protection against #fashernistas cooption and #geekproblem irrelevance.
Trying out some standard #openweb tech tools, we could probably fix the issues but these initial issues mean the tools are not ready for outreach. This is normal #geekproblem that is rearly resolved so #openweb outreach all to often fails. We need tools that work outa the box.
The users don't wont to take on responsibility
And the geeks dont wont to give it up.
#fashernistas just do what is mainstream
#geekproblem just do what is mainstream and they can have total control/security over.
ie. They feed each other.
The is not alt until these matching problems are mediated.
If your project is ideological and your are pushing it as a universal sulution then you are pushing nothing socially useful. Only projects that bridge ideological differences are useful at social scales. This is a simple truth that all #geekproblem projects miss.
The #openweb is being #reboot ed the question is will these reach out into the mainstream. This, for me, will depend on addressing #fashernista and #geekproblem issues that were a part of it failing agensts the #dotcon encloses.
