Andrew (Television Executive)Jun 21, 2023

Sneak Peak at a project I've been working on:
https://communitymedia.network/

This is a website with information about #DIYTV and #NewEllijayTelevision, a history of independent video from the #videofreex through to #youtube and suggestions on how to proceed in to the future.

It's still growing. There are almost certainly typos, formatting issues, dead links, awkward phrases, incorrect information, missing instructions, etc. Over the next week or three I'll be adding links, embedding videos, sharing code, and writing additional supplemental and instructional materials.

But the site is up and it works, and I have a page through which you can by a hand bound zine style copy of Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV.

Community Media – A handbook for revolutions in DIY TV

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Jun 21, 2023

In case I wasn't clear in my original post:

This is a handbook for making and distributing television without relying on any billionaires along the way. (Okay, we still need the internet. I'll work on making the internet unnecessary in the next edition.)

I don't get in to how to set up and maintain a peertube instance here, but I will in the future.

Instead, here, I focus on why you would want to, and what you might do instead if you can't self host.

Show threadThe DoctorJun 21, 2023

@ajroach42 Folks carrying flash drives of stuff?

"Hey, check this neat stuff out!"

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Jun 21, 2023

@drwho honestly, I'm writing that up right now.

"If distributing over the internet is too expensive or complicated, there's always the old standby of a bunch of USB drives"

I'll make that update tonight.

Show threadinctuli
@ajroach42 @drwho Time to start working on a local #mesh network :)
Jun 22, 2023 at 12:01amWeb
Show threadinctuliJun 22, 2023
@ajroach42 @drwho Oh! Or a #PirateBox !
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Jun 22, 2023

@inctuli @drwho https://ajroach42.com/a-modern-bbs/

Yeah, more or less.

I need a few weeks to finish up the prototype we've been working on for a piratebox that does better peer-to-peer.

A Modern BBS: Reviving the local, distributed, weird precursor to Facebook.

BBSs were a weird, wonderful facet of early computer culture, connecting community members in to a distributed, often free, local social network. I want to revive this almost forgotten concept, and find a modern spiritual successor.

Show threadhairylarryJun 22, 2023
@ajroach42 @inctuli @drwho

I was sysop on a BBS in the early nineties. It was a riot.
Show threadThe DoctorJun 22, 2023
@hairylarry @ajroach42 @inctuli Same.
Show threadThe DoctorJun 22, 2023

@ajroach42 @inctuli Cool!

There is some reusable p2p code in Byzantium Linux that you might want to look at. You might have independently come up with the same techniques, though.

Show threadThe DoctorJun 22, 2023

@ajroach42 @inctuli Oh!

https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS

GitHub - virtadpt/eBBS: Eagle BBS is F/OSS text mode BBS software from the 1990's. It's a classic and so lightweight that chances are it still has some uses in the twenty-first century.

Eagle BBS is F/OSS text mode BBS software from the 1990's. It's a classic and so lightweight that chances are it still has some uses in the twenty-first century. - GitHub - virtadpt/eBBS: ...

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Show threadHouston_OGJun 26, 2023
@ajroach42 @inctuli @drwho Plex is nice or torrent