Rebooting radical grassroots media using open standards to build an alternative news network

Rebooting radical grassroots media using open standards to build an alternative news network - learn the history and future vision from media veteran Hamish Campbell.

## Introduction
- Hamish Campbell's background in grassroots and radical media
- The open web's early potential for alternative media

## The Failure of Alternative Media
- Rise of big tech like Facebook led to closed and monopolized systems
- Encryptionist agenda went nowhere over the past decade
- Climate crisis shows need for societal alternatives

## The Open Media Network
- Explaining the decentralized federated network model
- Trusted flows of content based on open standards

## Rebooting Indymedia
- Rebuilding the local community news site with focus areas
- Approaches for enabling secure anonymous publishing

## Why Indymedia Failed
- Early successes but internal disputes over openness
- Problems with incompatible customized systems
- Control desires led to user-hostile encryption

## Lessons Learned
- Open standards critical for networks
- Loose flexible processes over rigid bureaucracy
- Explicitly embedding the "four opens" philosophy

## Project Overview
- Building a web of trusted news flows
- Agnostic decentralized network via protocols like ActivityPub
- Get involved to help create alternative media

Based on the #OMN

"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"

[deanwhitbread]

3:25 Mastodon install. You don't actually explain what this is. I predict half your viewers zone out at this point.