This is a positive story and a strong lesson to learn from the outcome:

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As you can see they soon dumped the grassroots crew who made it happen and employed #NGO "experts" on how to run them, this lead to ossification.

The morale of the story, keep the cats onboard, is as much an issue of the "libertarian cats" as it is of the #Eurocrats.

STRONG lesson to learn from this.

EU Voice

EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

^{Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu}

In #ActivityPub "governance" at the moment people are mostly #dogmatic #NGO crew, some are #mainstreaming careerism, others are doing #geekproblem #grassroots careerism.

Neither of these are real friends of any alternatives, they are friendly enemies ;)

People often destroy things they love, not from hate, more from possession

This is the #fahernista view of the 20-year-old #OMN project, it is full of teenage focus anagora.org/distributed-cooper… and might be interesting if it LINKED, but it does not, flight and scatter to the wind, more to compost.

disco.coop/manifesto/ This is the #fahernista view of an #encryptionist project of the 20-year-old #OMN project, it is full of teenage focus and might be interesting if it LINKED, but it does not, flight and scatter to the wind, more to compost.

two.compost.digital/ This is the #NGO #fahernista view of the 20-year-old #OMN project, it is full of teenage focus and might be interesting if it LINKED, but it does not, flight and scatter to the wind, more to compost.

#blocking

DisCO Manifesto

Distributed Cooperative Organisations for radical workplace democracy

^disco.coop

The #OMN instances are based on the history of "offline" activism. #Activism is the crusty protest camp and #campaign, a #NGO office. #OMN value is that we "bridge" the two and keep this bridge in place

So protest camps have their share of "nutter" mess and the #NGO offices have the power politics mess. Let's try and get the two to compost this messy aproch to social change and challenge.

I wonder about the balance of #NGO parasites to #openweb "natives" in events like this.

Do we have a way to "judge" this #4opens please?

#matrix has one foot in the #dotcons world and is full on in the #NGO world.

Yes it's #openweb in a technical more than a cultural way, but we have no way to judge #openweb culture, so this is a hard one to talk about or address.

#4opens is a step

the development of #mastodon has been captured by the #NGO crew for a while now - this is a normal outcome of a good #openweb project going #mainstreaming

The solution to this normal issue is to shift focus to new potential outreach project to balance this shift.

Attacking and PUSHING back HARD at this change has limited and often negative effects.

Do better, only complaining is #BLOCKING

two.compost.digital/ This is the #NGO #fahernista view of the 20-year-old #OMN project, it is full of teenage focus and might be interesting if it LINKED, but it does not, flight and scatter to the wind, more to compost.

#blocking

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One initiative that is working to address this issue is #NGIZero, which is a program funded by the European Commission to support the development of #openweb technologies. Through this program, funding is provided to support projects that are focused on creating safe #NGO and #geekproblem projects.

Open-Media-Network - Open Collective

OMN

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Well, it looks like we are taking BIG steps to becoming the new #mainstreaming. The libertarian cats have officially changed the world WordPress.com owner Automatic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse | TechCrunch well done guys, now can we write some history please.

We played a part in the HUGE story, if we don’t write this the parasites and fashernistas, #NGO Burocrats and PR companies will… Help tell the story here, please.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

EU outreach - If we dont tell our story am not sure who will

Well, it looks like we are taking BIG steps to becoming the new #mainstreaming. The libertarian cats have officially changed the world WordPress.

^SocialHub

With the #mainstreaming influx, the is increasing #openweb events run on #dotcons platforms, for example qiqochat.com/about

In the #Fediverse we have a good history of using #BBB bigbluebutton.org/ as it is native, not alien to WHY and HOW we do things. Can understand coming in from the #fahernista and #NGO agenda is a learning curve, good to try to be native to the space you would like to be a part of. Welcome.

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This #openweb event is being run on a #dotcons platform qiqochat.com/about

In the #Fediverse we have a good history of using #BBB bigbluebutton.org/ as is native, not alien to WHY and HOW we do things. Can understand coming in from the #fahernista and #NGO agenda is a learning curve, good to try to be native to the space you would like to be a part of. Welcome.

BigBlueButton | Open Source Virtual Classroom Software

BigBlueButton is a global teaching platform. This open source virtual classroom software was developed in a school, not in a boardroom. Try it now.

^{BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing}

#DecentSocial my prospective. decentsocial.net/ this #openweb event, the feeling that 90% of the talking was about things that had been talked about way too much before and obviously did not matter for what needs to be #fediverse focus/done now. So strong noise to signal at this event.

This is kinda normal, obviously need good faith to mediate.

#academics #fahernistas #NGO #geekproblem need balance.

Who is up for helping bridge building in the next session in an hour or so 😀

put two funding applications in, though they will likely be alien too you and the funders as they come from the grassroots where the value is created on the #openweb and not from the mostly pointless #NGO's that normal get funding. Hope you and the #mainstreaming crew make the effect to understand this, as we can't keep doing the same #techshit we have done for the last 20 years ;)

#OMN #indymediaback #OGB