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   Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 18:12:49 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

   ICYMI: I wrote a piece for Organise Magazine about the radical media network known as Mutu that has gone from strength to strength, growing beyond France -- and how, here in the UK, we could finally leave behind our "silos" to embrace non-hierarchical, non-commercial, local autonomous media: https://organisemagazine.org.uk/loam-local-autonomous-media-theory-and-analysis/ #CitizenJournalism #media #IndyMedia #RadicalMedia #AlternativeMedia #Anarchism #AntiCapitalism #AntiFascism

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 22:23:38 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     • Simon Brooke

     @simon_brooke Thanks for this, it's really interesting - and food for thought!

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     Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 22:23:39 JST Simon Brooke

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     @MediaActivist I wrote an essay (and partial specification) on something very similar back in 2005; I think it still holds up.

     https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2005-12-30-collabpres-local-news-for-an-internet-age/

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 00:11:11 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     • Clayton Dewey

     @clayton Thanks, I can't tell you how much it means to receive such positive encouragement! There are a lot of nay-sayers (many of them used to the "silos" I guess!) I totally relate too, I was also involved in IndyMedia back in the day and it was so exciting for a time, back before it got filled with some garbage haha.

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     Clayton Dewey (clayton@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 00:11:12 JST Clayton Dewey

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     @MediaActivist

     This is spot on. I was involved in Indymedia back and those two challenges: lack of resources to maintain the tech and weak editorial policy was our downfall.

     So encouraging to see new alternative media models learning those lessons. I hope the Mutu model spreads the way you're hoping it does in the UK.