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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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.
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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

From my point of view, it needs to start from the raw truth: there is currently no functioning grassroots media. Not in any coherent sense. So before we talk about video, storytelling, or tools, we need to answer the core question:

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Building Networks (Ecosystems)

Balance means prioritising the roots - not exclusively, but deliberately - to counter the dominance of traditional and #NGO media.

The corporate #dotcons, the “social media” mess — we KISS use and abuse what's left as compost.

The #openweb, foundation of transparency and federation ( #4opens).

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@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.

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cascheranno

#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.

#4opens #openweb #KISS

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@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.

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Why care? To keep the imagination alive, showing that technology doesn’t have to mean domination.

To preserve resilience, decentralized systems survive censorship, collapse, and corporate shutdowns.

Teach culture through code, #4opens protocols carry values: mutual aid, federation, accountability.

We can rebuild the commons, every working instance, repo, and trust circle is a seed for a freer #openweb.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Why care? To keep the imagination alive, showing that technology doesn’t have to mean domination.

To preserve resilience, decentralized systems survive censorship, collapse, and corporate shutdowns.

Teach culture through code, #4opens protocols carry values: mutual aid, federation, accountability.

We can rebuild the commons, every working instance, repo, and trust circle is a seed for a freer #openweb.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

So why care? Because without the #4opens, openness becomes a brand, not a practice.
With them, we have a shared compass to judge and navigate complexity — a way to build tech, governance, and culture that stays accountable to the people, not to institutions, funders, and empires.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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.

#indymediaback #OMN #openweb #4opens #grassroots #FOSS

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

History isn’t something that happens to us; it’s something we make — or lose — together.

#OpenWeb #4Opens #OMN #OGB #IndymediaReboot

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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.

#indymediaback #OMN #openweb #4opens #grassroots #FOSS

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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.

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

People should care about the #4opens as they are a simple, practical defence against enclosure and #mainstreaming bullshit. They are the minimum principles that keep the #openweb — and any project that claims to be “open” — actually open, alive, and accountable.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

So why care? Because without the #4opens, openness becomes a brand, not a practice.
With them, we have a shared compass to judge and navigate complexity — a way to build tech, governance, and culture that stays accountable to the people, not to institutions, funders, and empires.

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@EUCommission

These are likely the same people who pushed #blockchain, they need to be sacked for incompetence #KISS

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@EUCommission

What Europe needs is trust-based decentralisation, not another round of hype-led managerial capture. #KISS #OMN #4opens

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Build trust structures early. Keep processes open ( #4opens). Anchor everything in the commons. Make it harder for outsiders to extract value by building shared meaning instead of market value.

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.

They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.

If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons, mediation before they move in.
Defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.

Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #mainstreaming #trust #commons

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