Admin @witchescauldron@activism.openworlds.info
"A look at the #geekproblem
In the alt tech, everything is broken. At the heart of this is an assumption that control and certainty are needed for good software. Were in reality software matches the human condition of transentery/lossy. Trying to force the first ideal is why most of our alt projects do not work. This is the base of the #geekproblem "
looking back at #indymedia video the outcome of all this http://web.archive.org/web/20110920222307/https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/DiyMediaLabs was largly woffal and hot air.
Our history is poorly told.
Looking back at the hitory of video #indymedia the documentation is deeply #fashernista and had heaps of #geekproblem in it http://web.archive.org/web/20110121132854/https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/VideoActivismFAQ
The #geekproblem has strong blocking energy on radical tech.
Ideas/strategies to mediate/overcome this unspoken block?
Idea to escape the media manipulation that puts Trump and Johnson into power and will keep doing this as its the business models of #dotcons and #tredtionalmedia Were are the tools to organize. Am asking a simple question and giving a simple sulution #DIY with as strong a protection against #fashernistas cooption and #geekproblem irrelevance.
Trying out some standard #openweb tech tools, we could probably fix the issues but these initial issues mean the tools are not ready for outreach. This is normal #geekproblem that is rearly resolved so #openweb outreach all to often fails. We need tools that work outa the box.
The users don't wont to take on responsibility
And the geeks dont wont to give it up.
#fashernistas just do what is mainstream
#geekproblem just do what is mainstream and they can have total control/security over.
ie. They feed each other.
The is not alt until these matching problems are mediated.
If your project is ideological and your are pushing it as a universal sulution then you are pushing nothing socially useful. Only projects that bridge ideological differences are useful at social scales. This is a simple truth that all #geekproblem projects miss.
The #openweb is being #reboot ed the question is will these reach out into the mainstream. This, for me, will depend on addressing #fashernista and #geekproblem issues that were a part of it failing agensts the #dotcon encloses.
