Old Growth Guy
@oldgrowthguy.bsky.social
I build local internet infrastructure and I'm passionate about cooperative ownership and democratic control of the economy - I will insist that these two things go together
https://og.coop
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https://fbfiber.net
https://og.coop
ogcoop.substack.com
https://fbfiber.net
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Great episode! Having worked on one for almost 5 years, I’m a big proponent of grassroots internet projects as amazing ways to build community and infrastructure. I’d love to talk about it sometime if you’d want to do a deeper dive into community internet infra
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great episode! Having worked on one for almost 5 years, I’m a big proponent of grassroots internet projects as amazing ways to build community and infrastructure. I’d love to talk about it sometime if you’d want to do a deeper dive into community internet infra
I’ve always understood it to be a case in point, a reference which demonstrates what is being said
August 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I’ve always understood it to be a case in point, a reference which demonstrates what is being said
To clarify, I and OGI are not part of this episode. Just sharing because I’m glad others are talking about it.
August 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
To clarify, I and OGI are not part of this episode. Just sharing because I’m glad others are talking about it.
Well, this sucks:
www.theverge.com/news/757538/...
@edzitron.com has produced a great body of context for this, so if you’re not familiar with the problem or his work, check him out
www.theverge.com/news/757538/...
@edzitron.com has produced a great body of context for this, so if you’re not familiar with the problem or his work, check him out
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Well, this sucks:
www.theverge.com/news/757538/...
@edzitron.com has produced a great body of context for this, so if you’re not familiar with the problem or his work, check him out
www.theverge.com/news/757538/...
@edzitron.com has produced a great body of context for this, so if you’re not familiar with the problem or his work, check him out
Thanks to @andrewsage.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for the new It Could Happen Here episode today, and stay tuned later this week for more from the Old Growth Initiative later this week.
open.spotify.com/episode/2b9Z...
open.spotify.com/episode/2b9Z...
Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
It Could Happen Here · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Thanks to @andrewsage.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for the new It Could Happen Here episode today, and stay tuned later this week for more from the Old Growth Initiative later this week.
open.spotify.com/episode/2b9Z...
open.spotify.com/episode/2b9Z...
In the follow-up, I will introduce the framework of a “people’s corporation” as a means of mass direct action to take the fight to the corporations at their level.
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In the follow-up, I will introduce the framework of a “people’s corporation” as a means of mass direct action to take the fight to the corporations at their level.
I’m excited to see prominent figures on the left discussing the importance of infrastructure and its role in social control by global capital over the last couple days. Last week I began publishing about this at open.substack.com/pub/oldgrowt..., and I’m writing a followup to my first article
The Old Growth Initiative | Substack
We can never be truly free until we can communicate freely | Builders of community-owned communications infrastructure. Click to read The Old Growth Initiative, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days...
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I’m excited to see prominent figures on the left discussing the importance of infrastructure and its role in social control by global capital over the last couple days. Last week I began publishing about this at open.substack.com/pub/oldgrowt..., and I’m writing a followup to my first article
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/t...
When the state fails, the people don’t have to. The Old Growth Initiative is a call for the people to engage in direct action to build equitable, democratically-owned and -overseen infrastructure.
When the state fails, the people don’t have to. The Old Growth Initiative is a call for the people to engage in direct action to build equitable, democratically-owned and -overseen infrastructure.
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/t...
When the state fails, the people don’t have to. The Old Growth Initiative is a call for the people to engage in direct action to build equitable, democratically-owned and -overseen infrastructure.
When the state fails, the people don’t have to. The Old Growth Initiative is a call for the people to engage in direct action to build equitable, democratically-owned and -overseen infrastructure.
I've transcribed the 1915 memoir of Eliot J. Caldwell, covering his experience in 1880 starting the Fitchburg Telephone Exchange Company. After 1880, Fitchburg had no independent communications service until 2020.
@fitchhistsocy.bsky.social
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/erly-telef...
@fitchhistsocy.bsky.social
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/erly-telef...
Erly Telefony in Fitchburg
By Eliot L. Caldwell, co-founder of the first Telephone Exchange Company in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I've transcribed the 1915 memoir of Eliot J. Caldwell, covering his experience in 1880 starting the Fitchburg Telephone Exchange Company. After 1880, Fitchburg had no independent communications service until 2020.
@fitchhistsocy.bsky.social
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/erly-telef...
@fitchhistsocy.bsky.social
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/erly-telef...
In this Substack article, I introduce the Old Growth Initiative, a project to build a new generation of democratically-owned and -operated internet infrastructure to facilitate a healthier society. Thanks for checking it out!
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/you-wouldn...
@edzitron.com
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/you-wouldn...
@edzitron.com
You Wouldn't Download a Tree
An infrastructure-based, democratic project for a healthier society
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In this Substack article, I introduce the Old Growth Initiative, a project to build a new generation of democratically-owned and -operated internet infrastructure to facilitate a healthier society. Thanks for checking it out!
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/you-wouldn...
@edzitron.com
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/you-wouldn...
@edzitron.com