Dev test work for #Makinghistory application https://hamishcampbell.com/dev-test-work-for-makinghistory-application/ The logic and workflow are all based on the #OMN project and have likely a 90% overlap with the #indymediaback project
@matlfb were thinking of focusing on this project https://hamishcampbell.com/dev-test-work-for-makinghistory-application/ as a part of the #OMN
Dev test work for Makinghistory application
The #makinghistory project is a decentralized, open-source archiving and storytelling network designed to preserve and amplify grassroots histories. It’s founded on the idea that history isn’t written by the winners - it’s made by those who resist, build, and care. Using digitized collections like the CampbellFamily archive as a seed, the project invites communities to reclaim their narratives through shared, federated networks. This isn’t just another data repository - it’s a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/dev-test-work-for-makinghistory-application/
The #OMN is a simple but radical project to shift power decisively from the #geekproblem and the #dotcons back to the people who actually make media, the grassroots producers.
From this shared “commons,” a new digital, economic, and social ecosystem can grow that is messy, open, and native to our needs.
And as with everything human, what we do with that power is up to us.
The problem we face is simple and brutal: the right-wing swallows anything we say, digests it through their machine, and spits it back as bland, weaponised social shit. Every radical idea gets stripped of meaning and served up as more #mainstreaming slop.
That’s why we need tools they can’t easily co-opt. Systems and language they can’t just regurgitate into empty right-wing talking points. This is where the #4opens and the #OMN #hashtag storytelling come in — it makes ideological hijacking hard, stinky, and uncomfortable for them.
This is real composting: breaking down the mess, feeding the soil, and growing native paths, that are grounded, and unpalatable to power plays of the #nastyfew and there worshipping acolytes.
Rebooting the Fourth Estate: Building Tools for Grassroots Governance
We’re living in the wreckage of the old order. The so-called Four Estates, pillars of traditional power and authority, which are either rotting from within or already dead. It’s past time to stop mourning and start composting. Right now, at the #OMN we're outlining and building horizontal social/digital tools to grow grassroots governance, aiming to replace what no longer serves us. These tools are based on tested activist process and being built out using current working federated […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/rebooting-the-fourth-estate-building-tools-for-grassroots-governance/
A letter from the margins of the #openweb
All the #OMN projects I’ve worked on over the years, from #OGB to #indymediaback, are not directly about social change. They are about creating the possibility of social change. A subtle, but critical difference.
We don’t claim to have the answers. What we do offer are tools, networks, and processes that make it easier for people to imagine that the world can be different, and then help them to take the first step. Yet here's the mess that keeps being pushed over us.
We are told this […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/a-letter-from-the-margins-of-the-openweb/
@ben Hi Ben, we are looking at https://emissary.dev/ coding project as a building block for one of our #OMN projects.
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/MakingHistory
Would be good to do a group video call to find out if this might work https://lecture.senfcall.de/omn-1fv-xrr-lui do you have a bit of free time over the next week?
Yes, we are tearing down the old neoliberal #deathcult consensus
People are celebrating that Trump and the new right are tearing down the neoliberal #deathcult consensus. And to be fair, they're right, Trump’s movement is smashing the status quo. But there is an easy to see problem, it's not being replaced with anything better. It's just more stinking shit, only now it’s wrapped in authoritarian aesthetics and crypto-gold-rush dreams. This is the "new" mess being pushed by the "new" #nastyfew.
This regime change without a roadmap is the end of […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/yes-we-are-tearing-down-the-old-neoliberal-deathcult-consensus/
Next steps are technical evaluation, a review of the codebase to assess its quality, security practices, and suitability for the project’s needs. DEV of the #OMN projects https://hamishcampbell.com/dev-of-the-omn-projects/
If our current (stupid)individualism keeps #blocking, even if we don’t build any of this now, the work still matters. The #OMN is not a product — It’s a path you walk https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-not-a-product-its-a-path-you-walk/
The #OMN is not a product — It’s a path you walk
The #OMN project is #DIY, it only works if we build it together. This isn’t a startup pitch. It’s not a platform that magically appears out of nowhere to fix everything. It’s not a product to consume, it’s a path you walk. The direction is participatory, not passive. You don’t get to sit back and clap… or boo from the sidelines. If you do, the system won’t collapse, but it sure as hell won’t grow.
Let’s be direct, there is no saviour coder, no NGO white knight, no […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-not-a-product-its-a-path-you-walk/
The #OMN project is #DIY, it only works if communities of people actually build it. This isn’t a path of passive consumption; it’s a participatory direction. If people choose to sit on their hands, or act the prat and critique from the sidelines, the system doesn’t collapse… but it doesn’t grow either.
That said, even if the building doesn’t happen right away, there’s still deep value in the memory, the documents, the ideas, the patterns. It’s compost for future builders. If we can’t get our act together now, the next group will dig it up, learn from it, and build better.
Right now, for me, #makinghistory archiving project is a still-doable foundation, a living memory layer that gives us something solid to stand on. Without memory, we spin in circles around the same old #techshit heap, repeating mistakes, retelling the same half-lost stories, and falling into the same traps. That’s not progress, it’s rot.
We’re now working on bootstrapping this archive project as the first step. If we don’t remember soon, many of us, and our histories, will be lost in the storm of #climatechaos. In the end, if we don’t build, we don’t change.
@rooftopjaxx @hamishcampbell @MediaActivist
Ah, the cockerel crows and the full moon glows, a fine moment to scratch at the compost pile.
You’re right, most are merrily skipping through walled gardens, hashtagging selfies and feeding the #dotcons. But seeds don’t need mass attention, they just do need rich compost. That’s what we need to build. Slow, damp, a bit smelly, but fertile.
The #sheeple and not my flock, they belong to the algorithmic shepherds. We’re feeding the stray goats and curious crows.
You don’t convert people by preaching. You do it by making better paths, ones they choose when the old ones crumble. We don’t sell the #openweb like snake oil — we show it, live in it, fix it when it breaks, and compost the crap. It’s #DIY, not #drm
As for silos and skips, good compost needs oxygen, not airtight boxes. So yeah, a messy open pile — full of half-rotten ideas, posts, drama, even the occasional troll turd.
We trust in tools not gatekeepers, the #4opens are the shovels, rakes, and sieves. The people bring the scraps, and over time, it breaks down into something usable.
No army of mods, no paywalls, simple trust, process, and a lot of patience. Think rural anarchism, not startup governance.
On scaling... Ah, the eternal #techshit question, "Does it scale?" That’s the wrong frame. Nature doesn’t scale, it sprawls.
We’re not building an empire. We’re nurturing a network. Think mycelium, not megastructure.
The #OMN isn’t about numbers. It’s about resilience and agency. If it sprouts in some cracks, the monoculture breaks. And yes, nettles welcome
The #Kolektivas, the #fashernista paradoxes, the semi-anarchic infighting, it all goes in the pile. Break it down, stir it up, give it time…
And what do you get? Fluffy, fertile humus — ready for new growth. That’s the cycle. That’s the plan.
The #OMN serves as an example of a shift from centralized, profit-driven platforms toward community-based, participatory paths. Hope not hate, in tech https://hamishcampbell.com/hope-not-hate-in-tech/
Can people engage with the #4opens process?
The #4opens is a completely obverse social restating of the #FOSS development model — but with a critical edition: The return of #openprocess, something we’ve lost over the last 10 years due to our reliance on encrypted chat.With this in mind, what is still #blocking the #openweb reboot? One thing I’ve learned from the last five years of the #openweb reboot is this: The #geekproblem is inadequate for the scale of change and challenge we face. Currently, the #geekproblem is a HARD […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/can-people-engage-with-the-4opens-process/
@witchescauldron
OK, you post on this stuff almost as frequently as a clock chimes, more often than the cockerel crows. We'll bite seeing as it's full moon and allegedly the best time for sowing seeds.
• Where are your audience, who are your #sheeple? Most will be blithely hopping in and out of the various walled gardens, so how are they to discover, or be persuaded to, the joys of the #OpenWeb; that it's the (non-cancerous) #growth (aka #PostGrowth / #Degrowth) they're truly looking for? How are they to be converted into disciples and evangelists?
° From the opposite POV, what sort of #silo are you going to build for your composting needs. The sort of open skip that other people will opportunistically fill up rapidly with all sorts of shit and trash? And will you be relying on the rakes, forks and shovels of a huge team of mods? How will they be onboarded? Or a pay-what-you-can-or-will model where people can post all their shit until moved on?
• And with respect to your pitch for the #OMN, just as inevitably, as the Esther Dysons of this word can never be unheard saying, "Does it even scale?"
Would merrily go off on further tangents on the Peertube/Youtube dilemmas, what is to be done with an anarcho-silo like Kolektiva, and so on, but hey there's other nettles to be scythed. Does it all go into the mix and get broken down into some lovely fluffy and friable rich humus in the end?
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#compost #shitposting
DEV of the #OMN projects
Emissary.dev presents itself as a promising low-code platform that might potentially expedite prototyping for the #OMN projects. It's emphasis on ease of use and integration with various #openweb social APIs which is the path we need to take for rapid development without getting bogged down in initial complexities.
Potential benefits, rapid prototyping, the low-code approach allows for quick iterations and testing of ideas, which is crucial in the early stages of project development. […]
If we’re going to break out of this death spiral, we have to bypass the endemic #techshit. This is where activist-led projects like the #OMN come in—creating new spaces rooted in solidarity, shared stories, and collective action. The Urgent Need for Collective Action https://hamishcampbell.com/the-urgent-need-for-collective-action/
