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Critique without action is just noise. If we want real change, we need to move beyond commentary and into building. From #geekproblem to #OMN solutions https://hamishcampbell.com/from-geekproblem-to-omn-solutions/
Critique without action is just noise. If we want real change, we need to move beyond commentary and into building. From #geekproblem to #OMN solutions https://hamishcampbell.com/from-geekproblem-to-omn-solutions/
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
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
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
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
@techtonicshift@techtonicshift.vivaldi.net @TechTonicShift@vivaldi.net @ghrasko
Interesting, this is the part of the social tech path we need. At the #OMN we work on the more grassroots and activist path of this native #openweb push.
@DemocracyMattersALot yes, it's a mess we do need to compost, as the Democratic Party is full of #deathcut ists, what's the plan, where is the shovel #OMN
@techtonicshift@techtonicshift.vivaldi.net @TechTonicShift@vivaldi.net @ghrasko
Interesting, this is the part of the social tech path we need. At the #OMN we work on the more grassroots and activist path of this native #openweb push.
@cascheranno I agree, #FOSS at its best proves capitalism’s myth false: people don't need greed to create; they need curiosity, care, and community. The #openweb runs truth - code written for necessity and shared purpose, not profit.
We need to push, even with the counter-proof in plain sight, the #geekproblem creeps in - the lack of social thinking in tech. We built open code, but it's often closed in culture. Capital slid back, exploiting that lack of #4opens social clarity in current paths.
#FOSS is still one of the best evidence that cooperation beats competition. But if we don’t compost the blindness in the foundations - the idea that “neutral” tech can stay outside politics - we keep rebuilding the same power structures we thought we’d escaped.
The next step is not only defend FOSS from capitalism, but more to finish the argument: code freedom + social responsibility. That’s what projects like #OMN and #OGB are for.
Most digital projects today, even the “good” ones, are built on dependency — on funding cycles, closed standards, and hidden hierarchies. #OMN breaks that by building around the #4opens (open data, open code, open standards, open process). This isn’t just a technical stance — it’s the foundation for trust, for real community autonomy.
The composting moment, the thinking behind #FOSS has stagnated. The same “freedom” that opened the door to collective innovation also let capital appropriate the commons. Corporations learned to exploit open code while ignoring its intent, twisting licenses, and capturing communities. This is the #GeekProblem: confusing technical brilliance with moral neutrality, mistaking openness of code for openness of culture.
The solution is not to abandon #FOSS, but to rebalance it. We need to compost the sterile individualism that crept in, nourish the soil with social values - trust, care, shared governance, and humility. The #OMN and #OGB projects try to do this by adding a democratic layer of governance to our infrastructure, bringing social accountability to technical openness.
Alt tech is the counter-proposal: it’s experiments with different social contracts.
It’s where people still build tools around trust, transparency, and autonomy, not profit. Projects like the #Fediverse, #OMN, #OGB, and other grassroots infrastructures are small, messy, and fragile, but they prove something crucial: We can communicate, collaborate, and create together without permission from the #nastyfew Silicon Valley oligarchs.
Alt tech is the counter-proposal: it’s experiments with different social contracts.
It’s where people still build tools around trust, transparency, and autonomy, not profit. Projects like the #Fediverse, #OMN, #OGB, and other grassroots infrastructures are small, messy, and fragile, but they prove something crucial: We can communicate, collaborate, and create together without permission from the #nastyfew Silicon Valley oligarchs.
Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.
History isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we make — or lose — together.
Right now, the same forces that buried our earlier waves — the #NGOs the “professionalisers,” the #dotcons — are at it again, turning commons into brands, movements into products. The #OMN is our refusal of that — a collective act of remembering and re-rooting, bringing back working practices and paths that actually functioned: open process, transparent code, affinity-based governance, and shared care for the commons.
Every generation inherits not just tools and systems, but narratives — who we think we are, what we believe possible. The #OMN project isn’t just technical; they are acts of imagination — working proof that people can build their own networks of trust and meaning outside of state and corporate control.
Because the web, and the world, needs a working example of what trust-based, open, collective media can be again.
We’ve tried the #dotcons way, and it’s killing both truth and community.
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