#makinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #makinghistory, aggregated by home.social.
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#OMN isn't social media, this distinction is important. Projects like #MakingHistory are not another social-media platform, they are primarily about news and archiving, with governance further down the road.
The basic model is closer to the old #Indymedia newswire, but rebuilt as a federated archive. Media objects come into the system. Communities curate those objects into Stories. Those Stories become objects that can flow back through the network.
This means the system doesn't need to revolve around individual posting and popularity. The important objects are the news events, stories and the relationships between them.
That changes the whole architecture.
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So the mess we've made doesn't have to define us. We can learn from it, reuse it and turn it into fertile ground for something better.
A world where communities are connected and empowered, where the web is open, where technology serves people rather than extracting from them.
The mess is real, so is our capacity to compost it. Let's get the shovels out.
#OMN #openweb #4opens #MakingHistory #FOSS #Fediverse #commons #socialtechnology #decentralisation #OGB #indymediaback
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How liberal media tries to “fix” liberal media
The current mess in media isn't that journalism has become biased, its always been, the problem is that the "progressive" #mainstreaming institutions trying to solve the crisis are still inside the assumptions that created it. Take the current liberal darling project Ground News, their promise is attractive: escape your filter bubble, compare left and right, become a more informed citizen. But notice the framing, the solution to broken media is… another layer of liberal media […]https://hamishcampbell.com/lets-look-at-how-liberal-media-tries-to-fix-liberal-media/
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We need to revive and maintain simple, reliable tools for metadata, feeds, trust and moderation - think old-school #Indymedia with modern plumbing.
One project is #MakingHistory: collaborative, living archives of communities. Not just news, but versioned storyboards.