<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p>Haha, yes let's not do that -- if you've seen my HacktionLab presentation you'll know how keen I am to learn from the mistakes of IndyMedia!</p><p>I'm really fascinated by the possibilities of the Kbin structure to host a Mutu-style network for UK information and news.</p><p>If you, Sam (or anyone else reading!), would like to discuss this with me directly, feel free -- I'm conscious of potentially clogging up the list! 😀</p><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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On Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at 18:21, <a href="mailto:sam@bristolwireless.net">sam@bristolwireless.net</a> <a href="mailto:sam@bristolwireless.net">sam@bristolwireless.net</a> wrote:<p></p>
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<p>just be careful not to accidentally re-invent indymedia!</p>
<p>I've found hosting kbin on <a href="http://elest.io">elest.io</a> fairly easy.</p>
<p>I've been playing with a service <a href="https://kbin.world">https://kbin.world</a> that attempts to<br>
redirect you to the appropriate community/instance depending on where<br>
you are in the world. It's quite large geographic areas at the moment,<br>
but I could try and get hold of some regional IP address localisation<br>
for the UK.</p>
<p>2p</p>
<p>Sam</p>
<p>uoting Jay Baker <a href="mailto:jaybaker@mediaactivist.com">jaybaker@mediaactivist.com</a>:</p>
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<p>Hey Sam, thanks for this -- I'm a big fan and user of the fediverse,<br>
including Kbin. I'll admit that my gut reaction to your message was<br>
"Ah, that's a totally different thing, it wouldn't work..." and then<br>
as I've thought about it more, I've found your suggestion to<br>
actually be quite inspired! Maybe an instance dedicated to local<br>
autonomous media with each locality running a different magazine<br>
would fit really well! So thanks! If folks are interested in<br>
discussing running such an instance, let's talk!</p>
<p>Jay Baker<br>
Pronouns: he/they<br>
Website: <a href="http://MediaActivist.com">MediaActivist.com</a></p>
<p>Other links: <a href="https://allmylinks.com/mediaactivist">https://allmylinks.com/mediaactivist</a></p>
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On Saturday, July 15th, 2023 at 17:28, <a href="mailto:sam@bristolwireless.net">sam@bristolwireless.net</a><br>
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<p>I've been playing with Kbin a bit recently. It might be a good fit,<br>
where local communities are a 'magazine'</p>
<p>Kbin is a Fediverse version of a threaded /voting platform like<br>
Reddit. It interoperates with Lemmy.</p>
<p>This is a worldnews aggregator built with kbin for example:<br>
<a href="https://fledd.it/">https://fledd.it/</a></p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Sam</p>
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<p>As I couldn't make it on the day, if anyone has any questions about<br>
Mutu / local autonomous media based on the presentation, ask away!<br>
I also think there are possibilities to incorporate it into the<br>
Radar site perhaps, so Radar folks feel free to give me a shot too!</p>
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<p>For sure if folks start to set up such a network we can help with<br>
syndicating the events. It's something we already do with other sites.</p>
<p>I think it would be great if people start a mutu-like network of<br>
independent media collectives. As I mentioned at Hacktionlab please<br>
don't use spip (I make a point of never crapping on any software<br>
platform - but in this case I make an exception - its security is<br>
flawed by design). Not that I think the particular software platform<br>
is important in this case, it's the network of people. Start simple.<br>
Something like set of Wordpress sites, and one pointing to them and<br>
aggregating some content, would do it.</p>
<p>Solidarity,</p>
<p>ekes</p>
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