@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

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

#OpenWeb #4Opens #OMN #OGB #IndymediaReboot

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

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.

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.

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.

@EUCommission

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

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.

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

#Indymedia Reboot: Remembering Our Roots

It’s good to remind ourselves that what we’re doing is not starting something new, but rebooting an existing project - Indymedia - as it was before being ripped apart by competing agendas and external pressures.

We already have the processes and working practices agreed upon from those early, strong years. The core idea is simple and enduring: wherever we face a choice between open and closed, we build a switch — On / Off / Moderate. We do not force one single way of being; instead, we choose a default and leave it to the trust or affinity groups who run each instance to decide where to set their switches.

The foundation project, the Open Media Network ( #OMN), and the example instance we’re rebooting as Indymedia, both stand firmly on two shared roots:

the #4opens — open data, open process, open source, open access

And the PGA (Peoples Global Action) hallmarks — horizontalism, direct democracy, and solidarity across struggles.

Together, these give us a simple, low-politics mission: To rebuild the grassroots media commons where people can publish, share, and collaborate.

This is about trust-based infrastructure - composting the old conflicts, avoiding the #NGO-style traps, and growing something alive again.

Talking to Our Left Friends

We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.

Keep this simple:

Fear / control → right-wing

Trust / open → left-wing

That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.

To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.

That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.

So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?

When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?

It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.

#KISS #OMN #4opens #left #trust #openweb

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

Talking to Our Left Friends

We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.

Keep this simple:

Fear / control → right-wing

Trust / open → left-wing

That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.

To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.

That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.

So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?

When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?

It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.

#KISS #OMN #4opens #left #trust #openweb

#Indymedia Reboot: Remembering Our Roots

It’s good to remind ourselves that what we’re doing is not starting something new, but rebooting an existing project - Indymedia - as it was before being ripped apart by competing agendas and external pressures.

We already have the processes and working practices agreed upon from those early, strong years. The core idea is simple and enduring: wherever we face a choice between open and closed, we build a switch — On / Off / Moderate. We do not force one single way of being; instead, we choose a default and leave it to the trust or affinity groups who run each instance to decide where to set their switches.

The foundation project, the Open Media Network ( #OMN), and the example instance we’re rebooting as Indymedia, both stand firmly on two shared roots:

the #4opens — open data, open process, open source, open access

And the PGA (Peoples Global Action) hallmarks — horizontalism, direct democracy, and solidarity across struggles.

Together, these give us a simple, low-politics mission: To rebuild the grassroots media commons where people can publish, share, and collaborate.

This is about trust-based infrastructure - composting the old conflicts, avoiding the #NGO-style traps, and growing something alive again.