#kiss

@witchescauldron @lostprototype @hamishcampbell I think a large part of the problem is that socially people are quite lazy: they tend to wait for new friends to come along, be introduced, rather than actively go out to find them.

In digital, people actually prefer algorithms to throw connections at them, rather than build their own digital bridges.

It is true that the tech has to be #kiss, but it is also true that even techies are reluctant to make an effort with any new thing.

#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.

#KISS

@lostprototype @hamishcampbell @khleedril

Hope you can start to understand: nobody in any real terms wonts this, yes it makes a lot of sense to a TINY minority. But it's failed (as been tried meany times in my time) and irrelevant in social sense. This is why the #Fediverse works as a social network and all the #p2p ones do not. There is a long history to this path #KISS

If you won't #p2p to BECOME relevant in the social sense, you need bridges and "killer apps" this is what we are working on with the #OMN

@lostprototype @khleedril
open or closed, we have meany closed tools in #FOSS, think encrypted chat, diaspora etc. what we need is native open tools, not more closed ones.

Yes, we have #Fedivers, it's a good start, but it's a copy of the #dotcons so as much problem as useful tool.

What can we build FROM this good start on the #openweb path is the subject of the #OMN

The #OMN is about media, inherently open, communication. So it's the right tool to reboot alt media #KISS

The problem with pushing diversity isn’t diversity itself — that’s essential. The problem is the ideology shaping the push.

#Mainstreaming liberalism reduces diversity to checklists and branding: rainbows on logos, token casting, #NGO strategies that look good on paper but leave power untouched. That’s not liberation. That’s management.

In these spaces, debate collapses into suspicion and accusations. Instead of solidarity, we get #blocking. Instead of building, we burn out. This is worship of the #deathcult: optics over substance, control over grassroots struggle.

The path is compost. Take the liberal tokenism, the reactionary backlash, the burnout — and compost it into something alive. Ground diversity in lived struggle, not corporate slogans. Use the #4opens so co-option is harder and collaboration messier but real.

The shift from “Woke Capital” to “MAGA Capital” shows how fragile branded diversity is. It flips with the political wind because capital doesn’t care about values — only profit.

The #OMN path is different: federated, grassroots, resistant to co-option. Diversity as lived strength, not a management tool.

The question is simple: keep chasing the spectacle, or compost the mess and build something alive?

https://hamishcampbell.com/mess-and-more-mess-diversity/

#OMN #openweb #deathcult #4opens #KISS

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Aus „Destroyer" wurden insgesamt 4 Singles ausgekoppelt. Die erste Single „Shout It Out Loud" erschien am 1.3.1976, gefolgt von[...]

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#noosphaeremusikkalender2025

When we forget this, we build cathedrals that collapse under their own weight.

When we remember, we build compost heaps — messy, alive, and fertile.

That’s the #KISS path for the #openweb reboot.

A reminder for all the #openweb builders:
A complex system that works always evolves from a simple system that worked.

A complex system designed from scratch never works.
— John Gall, 1975

#KISS

DRAFT

Fluffy side: cautious, slow-moving, grounded in “keeping the peace” and managing optics. Classic problem: avoidance of conflict means bottlenecking decisions, blocking energy, and trying to centralise control, so things don’t blow up. Spiky side: impatient, direct, “get it done” energy. Spikiness pushes things forward, but often burns bridges, creating splits and mistrust. Neither path alone works – one stalls out, the other fragments. Their clash just tore apart what was an opening for a broad left #mainstreaming alternative that is needed.

Lessons for horizontal/grassroots paths, is that centralisation kills: When “leadership” becomes bottlenecked around personalities (Corbyn as “elder statesman”, Sultana as “young firebrand”), it reproduces the same control problems we see everywhere – NGO capture, careerist gatekeeping, etc. Energy without mediation burns out: Spiky approaches are essential (they break inertia), but without social glue and open processes, the movement shatters.

The political vacuum, is back. The 700,000 people who signed up are proof that there is real mass desire for something beyond the #deathcult #mainstreaming. But they’re now “homeless” – with no trustworthy structures to plug into. That vacuum will either be filled by opportunists (careerists, NGOs, “#fashernista”), or open the path for something like the #OMN: messy, federated, not centralised around personalities.

This is exactly why the #OMN and #openweb reboot needs balance, so the signal-to-noise ratio can stay healthy. Otherwise, we just mirror the left’s long history of splits. What it means for the fluffy/spiky debate: The “Your Party” implosion shows us:

You can’t fix spiky by being fluffy. The soft style just frustrated allies and deepened mistrust.

You can’t replace fluffy with spiky.

The only path forward is process, not personality. That’s where horizontal projects like the #OMN can work – by creating open, transparent, mediated structures that don’t depend on charismatic individuals at the centre.

For the #openweb reboot, this moment is actually what we are working to fix. It shows how much energy there is (hundreds of thousands signing up). It shows the cost of control blindness. It creates urgency for native governance paths and experiments in the #fediverse and beyond – where messy affinity-based groups, guided by the #4opens, can provide a home that doesn’t implode around personality clashes. For the #OMN and #openweb reboot, the answer isn’t “less conflict” or “more central leadership,” but better mediation and horizontal process, so collective energy isn’t wasted on repeating the same old splits.

Where are the seeing the limits of #fashionista and #geekproblem control blindness. And te need for the practical mediation layer of the #OMN which isn’t abstract theory – it’s the path that makes messy, spiky, fluffy humans work together without blowing everything up.

#KISS

Псевдо-3D движок за 150 строк кода или рейкастинг для чайников

На хабре было много статей как создать такой движок, но их проблема была в том что они давали только отрывки кода, не объясняя полностью весь процесс, который мог бы быть по-настоящему полезен новичкам или полным нулям. Поэтому я решил подделится своим опытом в этом направлении

https://habr.com/ru/articles/948320/

#SFML #C++ #Игровой_движок #raycasting #псевдотрёхмерность #псведо3D #минимализм #kiss #игра #импровизация

Rock And Roll All Nite
#Kiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMD7Usflbg

Happy anniversary to the KISS Solo Albums: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley were released this week in 1978. #KISStory #KISSarmy #KISS #acefrehley #petercriss #paulstanley #genesimmons

I love the "new" Internet. We made everything so bloated so it's expensive to run. Then we figured out it cost something to run it, so let's add another layer of protection against abuse, which also collides with #privacy and #KISS principles. I'm also looking at people who thinks #Anubis is a solution and not just ugly workaround.

@bob that’s #cavetechnology. Our society is far too complex for that - you’d have to kill billions to make it a path.

#4opens is the opposite: data commons. Light as a tool to fight with, not darkness to hide in.

#OMN #KISS

The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil #OGB

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

https://hamishcampbell.com/thinking-outreach-of-the-hashtag-story/

The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

#OverUnder 033! This week @immarisabel is my guest.

She was kind to reply to those topics:

-#Small web
-#KISS
-#Amsterdam
-#Blaugust
-Rice pudding

#blogging #blog #fediverse #dessert

This is 90/100 post for the #100DaysToOffload challenge.
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-033

We are stripped naked by the last 40 years of the #deatcult. Every assumption that we lived in a tolerant, “good” world. The class war was balanced to stop the possibility of a soviet takeover, as liberals see this, two accidents: a temporary ecosystemic surplus and a temporary post-WWII settlement. Both have been steadily dismantled. And when the foundations are gone, the liberal illusions fall with them.

In the USA, Trump, neoliberalism’s golem, is dismantling his creators’ project. The Democrats wander listlessly like puppets with their strings cut. Client states are facing rebellion without the normal imperial backing. This stagnation wasn’t an accident, it was the plan. Just enough suffering to keep people scared, not enough to spark revolt. Just enough democracy to keep people hopeful, not enough to allow change.

If things keep going without major surprises, we end up with fascism or authoritarianism in every major country. The next branching is whether China’s technological developments manage to hold global warming under 2 degrees. If not, every border becomes a vicious killing zone, not the “minor” ones we already live with, but a planetary system of militarised exclusion and death.

What would stop this? It’s unpredictable. Maybe the reboot of an old ideology, or the dramatic growth of one that barely exists today. A return to #neoliberalism won’t help, and a return to pre-neoliberal #liberalism is impossible. Between 1850 and 1950, ideologies bloomed, clashed, and died. In the last 80 years? Nothing but consolidation and suppression.

But with now #dotcons algorithmic machine is accelerating the pushing the mess, the traditional media world is closing. The suffering is accelerating beyond tolerance, beyond what can be hidden. Some say immiseration brings revolution, but, revolutions comes when expectations of something better are dashed, not when misery drags on. The 20th century Marxism of the authoritarian socialism crowded out other left paths, and when it faded, little remained. #Neoliberals didn’t have to control everything; they just had to preside over a void.

And into this void the blinded #fashionistas pushed the #dotcons. YouTube, Facebook, TikTok – as algorithmic machines of fear and control, that then went on to feed the hard right, who picked up the agendas and traditions of the left with the fall of the past left projects. The right twisted solidarity into nationalism, collective action into mob violence, critique into conspiracism. We fucked this up, and we have to fix it.

The fix for this mess we made isn’t going to come from #mainstreaming policy papers or NGOs. The real fix has to come from the messy, grounded rebuilding of #classwar based open networks to feed grassroots trust.

To make this change we need an affinity group to short circuit the hopelessness they sell us, yes, it’s easy for the few to see that this hopelessness is a lie. But shifting to the majority to rebuild #mainstreaming is a much bigger project. So a small step is projects like the #OMN. If we don’t plant something better like this, we will be force-fed the future YouTube and Meta have already chosen for us. And that future looks a lot like fascism dressed up as entertainment.

#KISS