Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

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Composting the confusion: A critical response to the misreading of the #Openweb

“It’s fascinating to see how the #OpenWeb ideology was formed in the late aughts… Open Web evangelists criticizing early Facebook for being too private is an incredible heap of irony.”

— [Someone missing the point entirely]

Let’s be clear: this is a historical and political mess, and one worth composting. The original #openweb vision, was wide, from the original European social vs the American libertarian, the person quoted is talking his view from inside the #blinded USA path […]
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos.social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;

decentered.co.uk/building-part

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I've never felt the absence of the citizen journalism portal at Indymedia.org more than I have since I started hearing about the protests in LA.

When #Indymedia started, the focus was on providing a place where anyone could publish. But the key news media innovation was having both the open publishing newswire and the features column on one page. Giving us a quick overview of important events reported on the newswire, linked to sources so anyone could fact check them.

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