#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.