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(DIR) Post #Av4YPgd54N0IPJhKhE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T01:36:51Z
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I've never felt the absence of the citizen journalism portal at Indymedia.org more than I have since I started hearing about the protests in LA.When #Indymedia started, the focus was on providing a place where anyone could publish. But the key news media innovation was having both the open publishing newswire *and* the features column on one page. Giving us a quick overview of important events reported on the newswire, linked to sources so anyone could fact check them.(1/2)@indymedia
(DIR) Post #Av4ZeKXNaZzyBjZsYK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T01:50:38Z
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Thanks to the emergence of the read/write web (as @lessig put it), it's now easier than it's ever been to publish your protest reporting on the web, including photos and videos. But in a age of corporate-funded influencers and bot-generated slop, it's never been harder to find trustworthy reportage in a timely fashion.The collaboratively-edited, social movement news portal is the missing feature now. How can we (re-)build this for the 21st century information environment?(2/2)
(DIR) Post #Av4cPn1Nhi9o33Mw88 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:21:40Z
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@weyoun6 > the technology is pretty easy. The difficult part seems to me to be the organizingExactly. The Indymedia network emerged from the work of hundreds of activist and alternative media groups, who'd spent the 90s figuring out how to make use of the net. By the time I got involved in pulling together the Aotearoa IMC, it was already in motion.Where do we start? Unconference?
(DIR) Post #Av4sxm1TWNm841diCG by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T05:27:08Z
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@weyoun6 > I'd like to see some live-streaming tech outside the hands of oligarchsLike hosted OwnCast servers for independent mediatistas?https://owncast.online/
(DIR) Post #Av4tGPYNHnN9sWunKa by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T05:30:32Z
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@weyoun6 > I'd like to see some live-streaming tech outside the hands of oligarchsIndependent mediatistas reporting on the ground could use OwnCast servers to host livestreams;https://owncast.online/People who can't be there in person could help by contributing their skills or donations to tech groups who offer pro bono hosting for activist media livestreams. As you say, the tech part is fairly easy, coordinating all this is the challenge.
(DIR) Post #Av4tb53sfYiqPCVXmq by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T05:34:01Z
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@weyoun6 > I'd like to see some live-streaming tech outside the hands of oligarchsIndependent mediatistas reporting on the ground could use OwnCast servers to host livestreams;https://owncast.online/People who can't be there in person could help by contributing their skills or donations to tech groups who offer pro bono hosting for activist media livestreams. As you say, the tech part is fairly easy, coordinating all this is the challenge.@indymedia
(DIR) Post #Av5FLoGF37kEwmPf3g by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T09:37:56Z
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@rooftopjaxx I'm familiar with Hamish : ) I'm sympathetic to the nostalgia of rebooting Indymedia with current tech.But I think it's important to start with an analysis of what's needed and missing in field reporting *now*, just as we did to develop Indymedia. Rather than designing around a model based on what 1990s reporters were missing. As I say, mainly the ability to publish directly to a global audience, relatively cheaply.@markjtx
(DIR) Post #Av5GZpiCYFUZSIk2T2 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T09:51:44Z
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@rooftopjaxx pretty much.@markjtx
(DIR) Post #Av6TyHueqV3GQnWFQe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T23:56:31Z
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@rooftopjaxx > those thorny problems of editorial control, moderation, and resources costs in both (freely given) time and financesThis is why I focused my initial posts on exactly what I think is missing now. International activist media networks are a huge organising project. They coalesce around a compelling vision and call to action. Refloating a 20-something year old wreck is not even that compelling to most IMC veterans. I can't see it inspiring younger mediatistas.@markjtx
(DIR) Post #Av7DzF5vPBqbs6BN0S by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-14T08:32:05Z
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@rooftopjaxx > Will look up your earlier posts laterJust in case the threading is broken already, it started here;https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114673491072662148> there's no countering the Tiktokification of everything is there?In the sense of everything being chopped into tiny, decontextualised info-bites? I tend to think that's a symptom of enshittification, driven by the weakening of the 4 counterforces against monopoly power (labour, antitrust, competition, etc) as described by @pluralistic.@markjtx
(DIR) Post #AvDuMoS5TWDNDMEJo8 by vees@epistolary.org
2025-06-17T13:55:00Z
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@strypey This is what Reddit, Digg, Slashdot and their ilk were supposed to be before determining that the money was in the comments.