[HacktionLab] We can finally build our own media - link to video presentation

[sam at bristolwireless.net]

just be careful not to accidentally re-invent indymedia!

I've found hosting kbin on elest.io fairly easy.

I've been playing with a service https://kbin.world that attempts to  
redirect you to the appropriate community/instance  depending on where  
you are in the world. It's quite large geographic areas at the moment,  
but I could try and get hold of some regional IP address localisation  
for the UK.

2p

Sam



uoting Jay Baker <jaybaker at mediaactivist.com>:

> Hey Sam, thanks for this -- I'm a big fan and user of the fediverse,  
> including Kbin. I'll admit that my gut reaction to your message was  
> "Ah, that's a totally different thing, it wouldn't work..." and then  
> as I've thought about it more, I've found your suggestion to  
> actually be quite inspired! Maybe an instance dedicated to local  
> autonomous media with each locality running a different magazine  
> would fit really well! So thanks! If folks are interested in  
> discussing running such an instance, let's talk!
>
> Jay Baker
> Pronouns: he/they
> Website: [MediaActivist.com](https://www.mediaactivist.com/)
>
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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Saturday, July 15th, 2023 at 17:28, sam at bristolwireless.net  
> sam at bristolwireless.net wrote:
>
>> I've been playing with Kbin a bit recently. It might be a good fit,
>> where local communities are a 'magazine'
>>
>> Kbin is a Fediverse version of a threaded /voting platform like
>> Reddit. It interoperates with Lemmy.
>>
>> This is a worldnews aggregator built with kbin for example:  
>> https://fledd.it/
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>> Jay Baker:
>>>
>>>> As I couldn't make it on the day, if anyone has any questions about
>>>> Mutu / local autonomous media based on the presentation, ask away!
>>>> I also think there are possibilities to incorporate it into the
>>>> Radar site perhaps, so Radar folks feel free to give me a shot too!
>>>
>>> For sure if folks start to set up such a network we can help with
>>> syndicating the events. It's something we already do with other sites.
>>>
>>> I think it would be great if people start a mutu-like network of
>>> independent media collectives. As I mentioned at Hacktionlab please
>>> don't use spip (I make a point of never crapping on any software
>>> platform - but in this case I make an exception - its security is
>>> flawed by design). Not that I think the particular software platform
>>> is important in this case, it's the network of people. Start simple.
>>> Something like set of Wordpress sites, and one pointing to them and
>>> aggregating some content, would do it.
>>>
>>> Solidarity,
>>>
>>> ekes
>>>
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