The following submission was recorded by NLnet. Thanks for your application, we look forward to learning more about your proposed project.Contact namehamish campbellphoneemailhamish@visionon.tvorganisation nameOMNcountryUKconsentYou may keep my data on record Project code2025-02-036project nameindymediabackfundCommons_Fundrequested amount€ 50000website Synopsis The #indymediaback is a Fediverse project about rebooting the radical grassroots media network, Indymedia, by anchoring it in trust-based … Continue reading #Indymediaback Funding Application 2025-02-036 indymediaback received →
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media!” UK #indymedia, near death, was ripped in two by internal social forces – https://archive.indymedia.org.uk/. These two “victorious”, blood-spattered parts promptly expired. The battle of open/closed, spiky/fluffy had NO GOOD OUTCOME. We need to remember this for the reboot. The idea is to:
The #IndymediaBack project is an initiative aimed at reviving the #Indymedia project, a decentralized grassroots media network that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The project was founded on the principles of open publishing, direct democracy, and anti-authoritarianism. This very powerful project was ripped apart from internal and external tensions and forces. The … Continue reading The #IndymediaBack project is an initiative aimed at reviving the #Indymedia project →
Q. A few comments on your excellent video. Your page layout is driven by desktop. Nowadays, people think mobile first. The rollback: an interesting idea. A. Yep it’s the #nothingnew part of the project, the original IMC was ripped apart buy internal arguments and bad process, so we are rebooting the project before this happened … Continue reading Talking about the #indymediaback project →
The#IMC project is an affinity group – so we are planing to work through consensus and diversity of strategy to move the project past where it was ripped apart by internal stresses after 10 years of running as a successfully worldwide radical grassroots media project. To do this we have a #nothingnew policy, beyond moving … Continue reading #indymediaback is a #openweb project of consensus based radical grassroots journalism →
https://indymedia.hs2rebellion.earth https://roadstonowhere.openworlds.info https://indymedia.openworlds.info We have a #activertypub codebase ready for testing, we have two campanes that asked for instances. We have stable hosting paid up for the next few years. What we don’t have is any on the ground outreach/training/networking due the covide shutdown. We have limited tech dev needed to update the code from … Continue reading Rolling out the test #indymediaback projects →
The #OMN project is more important for what it does not do. The is a core/ perfiery outlook, more than 99% of peoples input from mainstream tech culture is clearly coming from the perfery for the human centred workflow of the #OMN Our mission is to shift through the tech pile and find the 1% … Continue reading Were next for #indymediaback →
The thing most liberals forget is that Americans are a notoriously politically violent bunch. From the Boston Tea Party to armed labour uprisings, from the Black Panthers to white vigilantes, from state crackdowns to citizen riots – the American story has always been soaked in political violence, the “land of the free” has enforced its … Continue reading America was always violent -You likely just have not noticed →
A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework: “Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.” Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, … Continue reading What should be closed? And what should never be? →
Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd: And if you miss a payment? Game over (inspired by). That’s not a functioning economy, it’s not freedom, it’s a hostage situation, where every basic human … Continue reading Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy →
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and … Continue reading Real world tackling the #geekproblem →
There’s an old rot in the heart of European tech policy – and it’s not just from the corporate lobbies. It’s also sprouting from the well-funded, #NGO-flavoured corners of what should have been grassroots. A contradiction that tells us everything we need to know about how broken the current #EU #mainstreaming crew and paths are. … Continue reading Composting the EU Tech Mess: From #NLnet to #Eurostack →