Indymedia - Re-awakening grassroots journalism

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We are a wide affinity group working to reboot the global indymedia network using modern federated protocols such as #activitypub. This reboot will be based on the OMN project code.

What is the OMN (Open Media Network): The project is to shift power to the producers and consumers of media. It’s about good UI and simple empowering #KISS tools to move content, by categorising it with a grassroots folksonomy. This simple approach is balanced by shared site level syntax for the complex crew.

Hamish Campbell will give an overview with * Quick bit of history. * What is this? * How to revive …

Let us brainstorm how we can federate existing OMN code with ActivityPub. In the end it’s about bringing trust back into news.

Join https://meet.jit.si/ScatteredConsequencesActRegardless

If you don't have a ticket, you can ask you questions by sending a post in the fediverse to @activitypub@gup.pe or in IRC #social on freenode …