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Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

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#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 27

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story) – #OMN (Open Media Network)

witchescauldron Apr 26

Based on the #OMN hashtag story: #indymediaback is a call to revive and rebuild the radical, grassroots, community-controlled media networks that flourished in the#Indymedia era - open, decentralised, and owned by the people publishing them - as a direct alternative to both the corporate #dotcons and the hollowed-out #NGO media landscape that replaced them.

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hamish campbell Apr 22

Keep group doing real things. (#praxis #indymediaback #buildstuff). Endless talk spaces breed toxicity. Shared work diffuses it. When people are:

publishing
fixing
organising
building

There’s less energy for backbiting, and more grounding in reality. Practice cuts through a lot of bullshit.

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 20

A fresh look at the mess we need to compost

In every activist space, grassroots project, every loose collective, you get people who bring mess in the wrong way - sniping, backbiting, constant undermining. Call it ego, trauma, status games, burnout… it doesn’t matter. What matters is: this friction is normal. It’s part of the #mess we can’t avoid. The mistake is thinking we can eliminate it. You can’t, but you can design for it. That’s where the #OMN path is useful: don’t try to “fix the people,” build processes that […]

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#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 15

The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away

Three years ago I was trying to explain something simple in language liberals might actually hear. They talk about “platform capitalism.” Fine. But I’ve been calling it the #dotcons for 20 years - because that’s what it is - a con. The last 30 years of tech hasn’t just drifted into this mess. It’s been shaped, step by step, enclosure by enclosure, into systems designed to extract value from us. What we now call the internet is, in large part, a machine built to manipulate, […]

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#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 8

Why you should help

The internet's public square is privatised, algorithmically controlled for "engagement" over any idea of truth, and placed under the control of a handful of American corporations with no accountability to European citizens or values. The #Fediverse is the most credible existing alternative - but it lacks the shared infrastructure to function as a native commons for news and media. #OMN builds that infrastructure: trust-based, community-controlled, transparent, reversible, and owned by nobody. […]

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Why you should help – #OMN (Open Media Network)

hamish campbell Mar 28

Interesting history I only half new https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2019/11/on-the-battle-of-seattle-s-20th-anniversary--let-s-remember-the- but it's missing the bike delivered live-streaming media centre that was set up for J18 in by undercurrents and other UK alt media groups for the huge protests here in London.

#indymediaback

On the Battle of Seattle's 20th anniversary, let's remember the Aussie coders who created live sharing

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#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 27

Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem

In the #geekproblem mindset, crossing a protocol flow is a gateway were in #openweb terms, it’s a bridge. That difference is not technical - it’s social - the difference between CONTROL and TRUST. A gate is something you lock, permission, authentication, enforcement were a bridge is something you cross, connection, flow, relationship. In the physical world, we don’t put gates on bridges as a default, but in software, we keep rebuilding them, and then wondering why things fragment. RSS […]

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#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 26

Let’s try and simplify the #OMN

The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data open source open process open standards It doesn’t start with features, apps, or ideology, it starts with flows. Imagine the network as: pipes […]

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