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The Open Media Network is a trust based, human moderated, #4opens project that builds a database shared across many peers. The project is more important for what it DOES NOT DO, than what it does do. It uses technology to build human networks. There are ONLY 5 main functions:
The hashtags are designed to make the mainstream as dirty as possible so people see the need to pick up #openweb #4opens tools "spades" to clear the stinking shit and pools of piss #climatechaos is increasingly going to show we live in (consumerism/alienating work/greed is good) makes compost (decay of death) to plant seeds (fertile life) to grow flowers (lifecult). It's a convoluted metaphor
The #4opens:
Are a simple way to judge the value of a "alt/grassroots" tech project.
Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data without this open they cannot work.
The #openweb was ripped apart by meany forces.
#encryptionists pushing security theatre broke #UX and trust based relationships
#geekproblem narrowed this into an irrelevant subculture.
#fashernistas in braced the bad in both sides for self-interest, greed and fame.
#dotcons privatized data and metadata to the service of profit and social control. All the above groups played their role in this.
The #openweb is a hollow shell for most people
Reboot #OMN #4opens #indymedia
For grounded "hippy capitalist" thinking on #4opens this is a historical document http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
Security thorter you should ask who we are hiding from. The sad and bad outcome of just about everything is only our friends - our enemies, the state and the #dotcons can almost always look behind the curtain. The rare exception of this is p2p encryption, never client server. Though the issue that makes most of security into a thin layer of cloth is the hardware and firmware our ”secure” apps run on. So many holes in these that it's all academic, what we do next with social technology #4opens
Help OMN indymedia reboot
* teach people the #4opens and review tools/projects they use/wont to use by them.
* #OMN is not about tech - all code is idolagy - the OMN its a social solution to a social problem
* It easy to keep crossing wires with "media" vs. personal. Media should be open, with clear sources, except when protecting them. Whereas personal data should default to private
* on the dev/organising site you can help by asking simple basic questions
https://youtu.be/MPFrwMBaKNI Short draft video - longer video comeing out soon.
If you are interested in radical progressive media tech https://unite.openworlds.info/explore/organizations yes it's #4opens and currently working on #indymedia reboot
if you are interested in radical progressive media tech https://unite.openworlds.info/explore/organizations yes it's #4opens and currently working on #indymedia reboot
The geeks have been lieing to themselves and to us that there code can be "secure" on these devices. This has been going on for 20 years, the #encryptionists fantasy has been built on top of this lie, as well as our banking and governance.
Take a moment to think about this mess.
The is a way out #4opens networks move us to a different place, and likely set of problems ;)
Am doing a talk at this event https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#talks about the #indymedia reboot #Omn project.
Need help on how to get the #geekproblem #encryptionists and #fashernistas crew to understand "social technology" thinking and resulting projects built on the #4opens
This is a hard sell, even though #activertypub crew are probably the best ordnance around for this kinda project.
The #openweb was ripped apart by meany forces.
#encryptionists pushing securaty theater broke UI and trust based relationships
#geekproblem narrowed this into a irrelevant subculture.
#fashernistas inbraced the bad in both sides for self intrest, greed and fame.
#dotcons privatised data and metadata to the service of profit and social controle. All the above groups played there role in this.
The #openweb is a hollow shell for most people
Not for the first time and likely not the last time. Misunderstanding of what am saying/talking about. To be clear the #geekproblem is complex in that its at root a unhealthy/inhuman desire for total control.
The federated model is both pandering to the problem, here have control and diluting the problem by spreading it thinly and then turning it into vapor #4opens ie. Its a kind stepaway if you understand the problem is there to stepaway from :)
What are hastags, click on one and see:
#omn
#openweb
#activitypub
#stepaway
#4opens
#geekproblem
#fashernista
#dotcons
#failbook
I will be happy when the #encryponists apps cross standards with the #activertypub apps to bridge the human nature "feeling" that feeds this "gap". The are a lot of unspoken issues and the is a strong "unspoken" push not to address them. Just about all I do nowadays is #4opens addressing the unspoken issues ;)
Been doing/at the hart this full time for more than 30 years, seen hundreds of alt tech projects wither at the vine, a very few flower. Thinking about this, have come up with a pretty much universally accepted way of judging what might flower and what will wither, i call this the #4opens other people call it open source development etc.
OMN - Projects are based on a core/periphery mission. The path to being involved is to work in the periphery for a time before being excepted into the core of the project. All the projects are based on the #4opens so the organizing process is public and everyone can have a say, though core decision making can be reserved for the core group if/as needed. How to move from the periphery to the core is a slippery thing.
Mission is “social change”, the peripheral mission is “social work”
https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia
We reboot this, social project, using modern federated technology and successful modern working practices #4opens
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