#visionontv — Public Fediverse posts

2011 was very active around #visionontv, producing/distributing activist video, critiquing mainstream & corporate platforms (especially #Facebook), and exploring open source tools and grassroots media structures. This laid groundwork for the stronger #openweb focus in later years.

2011 was very active around #visionontv, producing/distributing activist video, critiquing mainstream & corporate platforms (especially #Facebook), and exploring open source tools and grassroots media structures. This laid groundwork for the stronger #openweb focus in later years.

2011 was very active around #visionontv, producing/distributing activist video, critiquing mainstream & corporate platforms (especially #Facebook), and exploring open source tools and grassroots media structures. This laid groundwork for the stronger #openweb focus in later years.

2011 was very active around #visionontv, producing/distributing activist video, critiquing mainstream & corporate platforms (especially #Facebook), and exploring open source tools and grassroots media structures. This laid groundwork for the stronger #openweb focus in later years.

2011 was very active around #visionontv, producing/distributing activist video, critiquing mainstream & corporate platforms (especially #Facebook), and exploring open source tools and grassroots media structures. This laid groundwork for the stronger #openweb focus in later years.

#visionOnTV was, and in many ways still is, part of a long-running effort to build alternative, grassroots media distribution on the #openweb.

Launched around 2006, the project set out to create an internet-based distribution channel for alternative news, activist video and independent reporting. Its aim was simple: to help communities publish and share their own stories, rather than relying on corporate media gatekeepers.

The platform aggregated, hosted and promoted reports from grassroots movements, campaign groups and independent journalists, providing coverage of protests, social movements and issues that were ignored or distorted by the mainstream media. Alongside publishing, the project produced original videos, documented activism and helped train people to create their own media.

The original project grew into the wider #OMN (Open Media Network) path, which evolved into a broader approach to decentralised, #4opens media infrastructure. The goal was never simply another website, but a federated network where communities could own and control their own publishing while remaining connected through shared #4opens standards.

Like many activist media projects of its time, #visionOnTV also used the #dotcons to reach wider audiences. Its YouTube channel still exists as an archive of much of this work, preserving years of grassroots reporting and video documentation.

From the beginning, the project explored open standards, peer-to-peer distribution and decentralised publishing as alternatives to corporate-controlled media. More recently there was an attempt to reboot the platform using #PeerTube, continuing this commitment to the #openweb, though the effort faced the familiar challenges of limited resources and volunteer capacity.

The decline of core mission is more than the loss of a website. It represents a loss of activist memory, media history and the living infrastructure needed for communities to tell their own stories. Rebuilding that infrastructure remains a core part of the #OMN path.

#visionOnTV was, and in many ways still is, part of a long-running effort to build alternative, grassroots media distribution on the #openweb.

Launched around 2006, the project set out to create an internet-based distribution channel for alternative news, activist video and independent reporting. Its aim was simple: to help communities publish and share their own stories, rather than relying on corporate media gatekeepers.

The platform aggregated, hosted and promoted reports from grassroots movements, campaign groups and independent journalists, providing coverage of protests, social movements and issues that were ignored or distorted by the mainstream media. Alongside publishing, the project produced original videos, documented activism and helped train people to create their own media.

The original project grew into the wider #OMN (Open Media Network) path, which evolved into a broader approach to decentralised, #4opens media infrastructure. The goal was never simply another website, but a federated network where communities could own and control their own publishing while remaining connected through shared #4opens standards.

Like many activist media projects of its time, #visionOnTV also used the #dotcons to reach wider audiences. Its YouTube channel still exists as an archive of much of this work, preserving years of grassroots reporting and video documentation.

From the beginning, the project explored open standards, peer-to-peer distribution and decentralised publishing as alternatives to corporate-controlled media. More recently there was an attempt to reboot the platform using #PeerTube, continuing this commitment to the #openweb, though the effort faced the familiar challenges of limited resources and volunteer capacity.

The decline of core mission is more than the loss of a website. It represents a loss of activist memory, media history and the living infrastructure needed for communities to tell their own stories. Rebuilding that infrastructure remains a core part of the #OMN path.

#visionOnTV was, and in many ways still is, part of a long-running effort to build alternative, grassroots media distribution on the #openweb.

Launched around 2006, the project set out to create an internet-based distribution channel for alternative news, activist video and independent reporting. Its aim was simple: to help communities publish and share their own stories, rather than relying on corporate media gatekeepers.

The platform aggregated, hosted and promoted reports from grassroots movements, campaign groups and independent journalists, providing coverage of protests, social movements and issues that were ignored or distorted by the mainstream media. Alongside publishing, the project produced original videos, documented activism and helped train people to create their own media.

The original project grew into the wider #OMN (Open Media Network) path, which evolved into a broader approach to decentralised, #4opens media infrastructure. The goal was never simply another website, but a federated network where communities could own and control their own publishing while remaining connected through shared #4opens standards.

Like many activist media projects of its time, #visionOnTV also used the #dotcons to reach wider audiences. Its YouTube channel still exists as an archive of much of this work, preserving years of grassroots reporting and video documentation.

From the beginning, the project explored open standards, peer-to-peer distribution and decentralised publishing as alternatives to corporate-controlled media. More recently there was an attempt to reboot the platform using #PeerTube, continuing this commitment to the #openweb, though the effort faced the familiar challenges of limited resources and volunteer capacity.

The decline of core mission is more than the loss of a website. It represents a loss of activist memory, media history and the living infrastructure needed for communities to tell their own stories. Rebuilding that infrastructure remains a core part of the #OMN path.

#visionOnTV was, and in many ways still is, part of a long-running effort to build alternative, grassroots media distribution on the #openweb.

Launched around 2006, the project set out to create an internet-based distribution channel for alternative news, activist video and independent reporting. Its aim was simple: to help communities publish and share their own stories, rather than relying on corporate media gatekeepers.

The platform aggregated, hosted and promoted reports from grassroots movements, campaign groups and independent journalists, providing coverage of protests, social movements and issues that were ignored or distorted by the mainstream media. Alongside publishing, the project produced original videos, documented activism and helped train people to create their own media.

The original project grew into the wider #OMN (Open Media Network) path, which evolved into a broader approach to decentralised, #4opens media infrastructure. The goal was never simply another website, but a federated network where communities could own and control their own publishing while remaining connected through shared #4opens standards.

Like many activist media projects of its time, #visionOnTV also used the #dotcons to reach wider audiences. Its YouTube channel still exists as an archive of much of this work, preserving years of grassroots reporting and video documentation.

From the beginning, the project explored open standards, peer-to-peer distribution and decentralised publishing as alternatives to corporate-controlled media. More recently there was an attempt to reboot the platform using #PeerTube, continuing this commitment to the #openweb, though the effort faced the familiar challenges of limited resources and volunteer capacity.

The decline of core mission is more than the loss of a website. It represents a loss of activist memory, media history and the living infrastructure needed for communities to tell their own stories. Rebuilding that infrastructure remains a core part of the #OMN path.

#visionOnTV was, and in many ways still is, part of a long-running effort to build alternative, grassroots media distribution on the #openweb.

Launched around 2006, the project set out to create an internet-based distribution channel for alternative news, activist video and independent reporting. Its aim was simple: to help communities publish and share their own stories, rather than relying on corporate media gatekeepers.

The platform aggregated, hosted and promoted reports from grassroots movements, campaign groups and independent journalists, providing coverage of protests, social movements and issues that were ignored or distorted by the mainstream media. Alongside publishing, the project produced original videos, documented activism and helped train people to create their own media.

The original project grew into the wider #OMN (Open Media Network) path, which evolved into a broader approach to decentralised, #4opens media infrastructure. The goal was never simply another website, but a federated network where communities could own and control their own publishing while remaining connected through shared #4opens standards.

Like many activist media projects of its time, #visionOnTV also used the #dotcons to reach wider audiences. Its YouTube channel still exists as an archive of much of this work, preserving years of grassroots reporting and video documentation.

From the beginning, the project explored open standards, peer-to-peer distribution and decentralised publishing as alternatives to corporate-controlled media. More recently there was an attempt to reboot the platform using #PeerTube, continuing this commitment to the #openweb, though the effort faced the familiar challenges of limited resources and volunteer capacity.

The decline of core mission is more than the loss of a website. It represents a loss of activist memory, media history and the living infrastructure needed for communities to tell their own stories. Rebuilding that infrastructure remains a core part of the #OMN path.

A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

A project like the #OMN does need to happen — and it’s harder than it should be.

We have already done this work.
#Undercurrents, #Indymedia, #Ruffcuts, #VisionOnTV weren’t theory projects - they were action media, built in lived struggle, with real risks, real trust, and real consequences.

#OMN isn’t a new idea, it’s a recomposition under worse conditions: more capture, more fear, more professionalisation, more #techshit in the way.

So the question isn’t “what’s the idea?”
It’s “how do we reboot a culture of action when trust has been eroded and replaced with fear driven safety theater?”

@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?

It needs to happen,

@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?

It needs to happen,

@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?

It needs to happen,

@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?

It needs to happen,

@Palky55 after looking at the work we have done with #undercurrents #indymedia #ruffcuts #visionontv and now #OMN what would you suggest the path is to reboot this community of action based on #openweb and #affinity paths?

It needs to happen,

The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-history-of-visionontv-what-we-built-what-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-again/

The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-history-of-visionontv-what-we-built-what-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-again/

The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-history-of-visionontv-what-we-built-what-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-again/

The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-history-of-visionontv-what-we-built-what-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-again/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043641/http://www.tubemogul.com/profile/visionOntv Interesting was looking back at #visionontv, and we had 18 million views in 2011 and tying to remember it was like 34 million views when you addeded on all the torrent distributions and other sources.

When the Fediverse booted up we transferred the videos and content to #peertube but the was almost no support so it went offline, and we have not had the resources to bring it back yet. What a mess, come on guys, let's get it back online https://opencollective.com/open-media-network/projects/visionontv

The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-open-media-network-composting-the-dead-systems/

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.

Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.

The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.

Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.

We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.

It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4opens

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-if-you-dont-value-things-you-destroy-them/

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-if-you-dont-value-things-you-destroy-them/

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-if-you-dont-value-things-you-destroy-them/

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-if-you-dont-value-things-you-destroy-them/

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/

VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video

https://hamishcampbell.com/visionontv-a-lost-future-of-grassroots-video/

Biography

https://hamishcampbell.com/biography/

Back in the day when dev was ongoing #visionontv

Back in the day when dev was ongoing #visionontv