Without trust and working flows, there’s no value at all, no matter how secure, encrypted, or elegant the tech stack. The #OMN with #indymediaback and #makeinghistory are paths https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-with-indymediaback-and-makeinghistory-are-paths/
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Real world tackling the #geekproblem
DRAFT
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
⁂ Article
Real world tackling the #geekproblem
DRAFT
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
@hamishcampbell @hipsterelectron
Only true p2p makes self hosting the trivial default - in fact there is no other way.
You download the app on your computer and you connect with other journalists directly and your readers download it from the p2p network too. There are no intermediaries. No "system administrators" that can lock you out of your account or data or censor you or edit your data, etc...
Journalists are sovereign and nothing can change that. Thats why p2p matters.
@serapath @hipsterelectron
This is both true and a #geekproblem deadened, we need fewer dead-ends in this #openweb reboot, please.
How would the code you are writing fit DIRECTLY into #makeinghistory and #indymediaback
PS my keyboard as stopped working so likely missing letters :)
@serapath @hipsterelectron
We need to build this resilient tech - #OMN #makeinghistory #OGB before we get to the stage of this short story https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/MakingHistory/wiki/Story+-+Oxford%3A+Going+with+The+Flow.-