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witchescauldron<p>A letter from the margins of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-from-the-margins-of-the-openweb/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-fr</span><span class="invisible">om-the-margins-of-the-openweb/</span></a> I am still digging <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/makinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGB</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPENCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPENCC</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p>The development of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndymediaBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndymediaBack</span></a></p><p>The reboot of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indymedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indymedia</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndymediaBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndymediaBack</span></a>) is about reclaiming grassroots, open, and radical media infrastructure outside of the control of corporate platforms and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a>. However, the development side has stalled due to the same issues that have stalled other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> projects, lack of sustained coder engagement, resistance in centralized funding, and the dominance of closed silos.</p><p>The challenge is building tech that works for activists, not just developers. The original Indymedia relied on early open-source tools. This means moving beyond tech-fetishist projects that scratch a developer’s itch while ignoring real-world community.</p><p>A trust-based federated publishing network is the goal. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a> (Open Media Network) framework already outlines how to create syndicated media flows using <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a>. The stalled dev site at <a href="http://unite.openworlds.info" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">unite.openworlds.info</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> needs committed developers who care about media as a movement, not just a tech experiment.</p><p>Without serious investment in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a>, people-friendly, open-source alternatives, activists will remain trapped inside the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mainstreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mainstreaming</span></a> of social media platforms. The question is: can we finally push through the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geekproblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geekproblem</span></a> and make this happen?</p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video</strong></p> Nearly 20 years ago, we built something radical. #VisionOnTV wasn’t just another platform, it was a #4opens movement. A bold attempt to break free from corporate-controlled media and give people the tools to create and share activist-driven, alternative television. We weren’t waiting for permission; we were building the future we wanted to see. Before #YouTube became the advertising surveillance monolith it is today, we had a different vision. One where video wasn’t just disposable […] <p><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-</span><span class="invisible">a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/</span></a></p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>Trump and the tools of the old world order</strong></p> An example of this is The United States Agency for International Development (#USAID) which was presented as a humanitarian force for economic and social development worldwide. However, its origins and operations paint a different much darker path, of geopolitical manoeuvring and #neoliberal hegemony over the last 40 years. Now, with the hard shift to the right, USAID is being gutted, alongside other long-standing institutions of the U.S. "liberal" global order. Origins and the Cold War […] <p><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/trump-and-the-tools-of-the-old-world-order/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/trump-and-t</span><span class="invisible">he-tools-of-the-old-world-order/</span></a></p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>The left, right mess is on repeat</strong></p> This is at the heart of the contradictions and confusion in the political landscape today. The liberal and left muddle, where elements of economic populism are shared across ideological divides, is something we’ve seen before, especially in the 1930s, when fascist movements co-opted working-class grievances while pushing reactionary nationalism. #Bannon, like Röhm, plays a dangerous game by mobilizing working-class anger against neoliberal "elites" but steering it toward nationalism […] <p><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/the-left-right-mess-is-on-repeat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/the-left-ri</span><span class="invisible">ght-mess-is-on-repeat/</span></a></p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>These aren’t pointless projects</strong></p> #mainstreaming #liberalism has lost its way. For the past 20 years, many self-described liberals have spewed out bilge water disguised as "common sense." But when pressure mounts, they reveal themselves as dogmatic and intolerant, almost as if they aren't truly liberal at all. How did we end up in this mess? The #deathcult, #stupidindividualism, and the rise of #dotcons shaped the dominant version of "common sense," warping it away from collective care and into something narrow and […] <p><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/these-arent-pointless-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/these-arent</span><span class="invisible">-pointless-projects/</span></a></p>
hamish campbell<p>For grassroots projects like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGB</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a> to thrive, they need exposure to mainstream resources without being consumed by them. And for the mainstream to evolve, it needs the disruptive energy of grassroots creativity. The bridge must go both ways.</p>
Hamish Campbell<p><strong>How #mainstreaming can meaningfully fund grassroots movements, they get the value from</strong></p> One of the biggest tensions in the fight to build an alternative, sustainable future is the relationship between mainstream resources and grassroots projects. The reality is STARK: grassroots movements need resources to survive and thrive, yet the very act of receiving funding, if they can access it at all, drags them into the suffocating grip of #mainstreaming culture, where the radical edges that make them valuable are dulled and destroyed. So, how can conscious mainstream actors support […] <p><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/how-mainstreaming-can-meaningfully-fund-grassroots-movements-they-get-the-value-from/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/how-mainstr</span><span class="invisible">eaming-can-meaningfully-fund-grassroots-movements-they-get-the-value-from/</span></a></p>
witchescauldron<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGIzero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGIzero</span></a> With the hard shift to the right in USA tech, we need to balance this, we can't keep being "nurtural" we never were, let's try to be the balance this time please with funding flows.</p><p>Have spent a lot of time over the last 5 years applying for funding for native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> projects, the problem seams to be that at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NLnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLnet</span></a> and the wider <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> they don't have anyone who is competent to judge <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects in this area <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hamishcampbell.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> my question for this round, is, has this changed?</p><p>Acknowledgement of your proposal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Makeinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Makeinghistory</span></a></p><p>Acknowledgement of your proposal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a></p><p>Acknowledgement of your proposal Open Governance Body <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGB</span></a></p>
hamish campbell<p>I stopped going to "grassroots" tech events 15 years ago.<br>A metaphor. Can we have less academic wanking and more social fornication at these events. Less metaphor, the needs to be a better balance between pointless and pointy in our grassroots tech <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a></p>
hamish campbell<p>Radical liberal view of a path out of the news mess <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/#abolish-rogan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the</span><span class="invisible">-view-from-somewhere/#abolish-rogan</span></a></p><p>What we actually need to balance this is working grassroots <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> media like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a> but a working liberal media would also be a step.</p><p>Please don't just be a prat on this subject, thanks.</p>
hamish campbell<p>The grassroots initiatives were advocated for, like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGB</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OMN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMN</span></a>, focus on providing a structure for meaningful change outside the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberal</span></a> framework. These projects, driven by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/4opens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4opens</span></a>, prioritize transparency, accessibility, and community-led governance, which are crucial for building resilience against both the far-right populism and the failures of mainstream liberalism.</p>
hamish campbell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@aynish" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aynish</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@witchescauldron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>witchescauldron</span></a></span> </p><p>Yep, the issue is one of coding as copies of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a> this comes with all the issues inherent. We need to balance this with native <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> approaches, history has lots of projects for this we could be inspired by, such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indymediaback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indymediaback</span></a></p><p>The issues are getting people to value this diversity.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nlnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nlnet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngizero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngizero</span></a></p>
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