People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point

Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked, and toward a confused mess of branding, #NGO careerism, platform thinking, and endless social noise. What happened over the last ten years on our Fediverse path People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point, but a distraction as these are not a stand-alone hot takes. It’s part of a long flowing story about how we got into this mess and how we might get out of it. The problem is most people now arrive in the #Fediverse with no memory of the culture that built the #openweb of trust networks, grassroots publishing, the messy but functional commons, the #4opens, the idea that media belongs in public and the understanding that social process matters more than shiny tech. Instead, people arrive carrying the assumptions of…