witchescauldronOct 21

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

peertube-visionOntv

OFFLINE due to server issue - visionOntv aims for the widest distribution of video for social change. It is part of the Open Media Network #OMN This is a peertube install

Open Media Network
witchescauldronOct 21

Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.

The Open Media Network (#OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens

This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.

#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com

#OMN (Open Media Network) – Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist

Show threadhamish campbellOct 18

Building Networks (Ecosystems)

Balance means prioritising the roots - not exclusively, but deliberately - to counter the dominance of traditional and #NGO media.

The corporate #dotcons, the “social media” mess — we KISS use and abuse what's left as compost.

The #openweb, foundation of transparency and federation (#4opens).

Show threadhamish campbellOct 11

@cascheranno

#FOSS is still one of the best evidence that cooperation beats competition. But if we don’t compost the blindness in the foundations - the idea that “neutral” tech can stay outside politics - we keep rebuilding the same power structures we thought we’d escaped.

The next step is not only defend FOSS from capitalism, but more to finish the argument: code freedom + social responsibility. That’s what projects like #OMN and #OGB are for.

#4opens #openweb #KISS

Show threadhamish campbellOct 11

@cascheranno I agree, #FOSS at its best proves capitalism’s myth false: people don't need greed to create; they need curiosity, care, and community. The #openweb runs truth - code written for necessity and shared purpose, not profit.

We need to push, even with the counter-proof in plain sight, the #geekproblem creeps in - the lack of social thinking in tech. We built open code, but it's often closed in culture. Capital slid back, exploiting that lack of #4opens social clarity in current paths.

witchescauldronOct 10

Why care? To keep the imagination alive, showing that technology doesn’t have to mean domination.

To preserve resilience, decentralized systems survive censorship, collapse, and corporate shutdowns.

Teach culture through code, #4opens protocols carry values: mutual aid, federation, accountability.

We can rebuild the commons, every working instance, repo, and trust circle is a seed for a freer #openweb.

hamish campbellOct 10

History isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we make — or lose — together.

#OpenWeb #4Opens #OMN #OGB #IndymediaReboot

witchescauldronOct 10

Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.

#indymediaback #OMN #openweb #4opens #grassroots #FOSS

hamish campbellOct 10
Most digital projects today, even the “good” ones, are built on dependency — on funding cycles, closed standards, and hidden hierarchies. #OMN breaks that by building around the #4opens (open data, open code, open standards, open process). This isn’t just a technical stance — it’s the foundation for trust, for real community autonomy.
hamish campbellOct 10
People should care about the #4opens as they are a simple, practical defence against enclosure and #mainstreaming bullshit. They are the minimum principles that keep the #openweb — and any project that claims to be “open” — actually open, alive, and accountable.