Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media

Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in their idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty. The most successful act and think they can be #traditionalmedia” without controlling the distribution of their content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the…

The Open Media Network (OMN)

“We can’t engage as communities, unless we have money. I can’t even express how angry this makes me.” – an activist group using Facebook. People and organizations who feel this way are the initial targets. https://activism.openworlds.info is an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate and https://campaign.openworlds.info a safe space for Campaigning and NGO…

#4opens

Ignore what they say, look at what they do #4opens The #dotcons can not be fixed, the #fashionistas who keep flocking to new “ethical’ish” ones are the problem, not a solution. The #4opens are a simple way to judge the value of an “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a…

Contact

For the first 5 years the #OMN run 5 #openweb instances on the #fediverse, but very sadly we had to shut them down, thousands of users had to move to other servers due to lack of support and more importantly the instances being used mostly to “shout into the void” which was not the project.…

Offering a real alternative to the dotcons world

Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world…

Building alt grassroots media networks to challenge the traditional media

Published Date 7/16/17 7:30 PM Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are to limited in there idea of what media could/should be. The is either a naivety or a dishonesty to all the current grassroots/alt media. They act and think they can be “big media” with out controlling the distribution of there content in any…

You do all know that posting polatics on failbook is a pointless circle of nothingness

Published Date 12/20/16 9:20 PM You do all know that posting polatics on #failbook is a pointless circle of nothingness. Please stop and do something more usefull. We have a clective Liberal fantasy in the is an idea that #dotcon can be social useful. Its not what the money (billions) was invested in. They “invested”…