@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?
It needs to happen,
A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.
We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.
#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.
So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”
A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.
We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.
#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.
So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”
@witchescauldron yes I agree but why so nany hoops.
My word is my bond Palky55 was on the the frontline defore you got out of bed dahlink
@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?
It needs to happen,
@warmsignull been doing this for 30 year both funded and unfunded #undercuurents was funded, then #indymedia unfunded, then #FSTV paid, #ruffcuts self funding #visionontv had big funding. And the current project #OMN is unfunded.
What I learned from this is that a funded project quickly loses their mission, in ones I did. And ones other people do not really have any useful missions. Self funded projects are best, but don't scale or last. 1/3
The #openweb is a space for both progressives and reactionary groups
One uncomfortable thing we need to address, calmly and constructively, is this: for the last decade, the right has been better at cooperating around #openweb media than the left.
This isn’t because the right has better politics. It’s because they’ve been more pragmatic about infrastructure. While much of the left argued endlessly about identity, fashion, theory, tone, and purity, right-wing and reactionary groups quietly built linking ecosystems: shared blogs, cross-posting networks, […]
The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again
Looking back at the old TubeMogul stats - the archived page from 2011 - I had a jolt:18 million verified views, and when you added the torrent distribution, RSS syndication, video CDROM redistribution, and all the edge-case channels we seeded into, the total was closer to 34 million views. These were big numbers back then.All grassroots, all #KISS, all built on the early #openweb ethos, that number matters, not for vanity, rather, it showed proof-of-work for what a truly decentralized media […]
The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again
Looking back at the old TubeMogul stats - the archived page from 2011 - I had a jolt:18 million verified views, and when you added the torrent distribution, RSS syndication, video CDROM redistribution, and all the edge-case channels we seeded into, the total was closer to 34 million views. These were big numbers back then.All grassroots, all #KISS, all built on the early #openweb ethos, that number matters, not for vanity, rather, it showed proof-of-work for what a truly decentralized media […]
https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.
When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv
The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
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
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
What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?
At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.
In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]
What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?
At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.
In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]
History of copyleft activist grassroots video distribution
Hamish Campbell, the founder of #VisiononTV, began his journey into copyleft video through his project called #RoughCuts. In a recent interview, Campbell shared how RoughCuts started as one of the first copyleft video projects that encoded activist video in MPEG-1 format, an early standard format for video. He would burn CDs with an hour of different films and create a user interface using HTML to make it easy for people to watch them and screen them from their computers.
The CDs were sold […]
