Interesting to think about why so much energy in the #Fediverse goes into #BLOCKING. I think it’s become a knee-jerk reaction: despair dressed up as action, covering for political apathy.
The #OMN starts from differences, we know grassroots organization works. The innovation is using technological federation through #ActivityPub to connect and scale these working social processes, without losing the human trust and participation that make them work.
The problem with the #mainstreaming push is that people bring the habits of corporate social media into the #openweb. Instead of learning how a community works, they block, exclude and demand that everyone else change to fit their expectations.
It’s like walking into a working protest camp, refusing to understand its processes, then trying to force everyone to reorganize around you - this actually happens a lot.
Blocking has its place. But when it becomes the default response to disagreement, it stops being a tool and becomes an escape from the harder work of building solidarity, negotiating differences and changing things together.
We don’t build another world by blocking our way out of this one. We build it through collective action, shared responsibility and practical alternatives.
That’s the #OMN path: build working grassroots projects, connect them through open technology, and grow the capacity to act together.
#4opens #openweb #Fediverse #ActivityPub
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