A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

The #openweb is a space for both progressives and reactionary groups

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-openweb-is-a-space-for-both-progressives-and-reactionary-groups/

The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-history-of-visionontv-what-we-built-what-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-again/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

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

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

History of copyleft activist grassroots video distribution

Hamish Campbell, the founder of #VisiononTV, began his journey into copyleft video through his project called #RoughCuts. In a recent interview, Campbell shared how RoughCuts started as one of the first copyleft video projects that encoded activist video in MPEG-1 format, an early standard format for video. He would burn CDs with an hour of different films and create a user interface using HTML to make it easy for people to watch them and screen them from their computers.

The CDs were sold […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-interview-with-hamish-campbell-on-grassroots-media-and-tech/

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-if-you-dont-value-things-you-destroy-them/

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/