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

[Mike Harris]

 > just be careful not to accidentally re-invent indymedia!

I keep meaning to write a piece on the demise of it.

Mike.

On 25/07/2023 18:21, sam at bristolwireless.net wrote:
> just be careful not to accidentally re-invent indymedia!
>
> I've found hosting kbin on elest.io fairly easy.
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> 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.
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> 2p
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> Sam
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> 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/)
>>
>> Other links: https://allmylinks.com/mediaactivist
>>
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>> ------- Original Message -------
>> On Saturday, July 15th, 2023 at 17:28, sam at bristolwireless.net 
>> sam at bristolwireless.net wrote:
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>>> 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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