Activism

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Founded on <a href="http://hamishcampbell.com/en/4opens" target="_blank">#4opens</a>, motivated by the <abbr title="People's Global Action">#PGA</abbr> <a href="https://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/pga/hallm.htm" target="_blank">hallmarks</a> and moderated by an ethical code of conduct. Its an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate via #openweb projects.
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<q>"We can't engage as communities, unless we have money. I can't even express how angry this makes me."</q>
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<cite>- an activist group using Facebook.</cite> People and organisations who feel this way are our initial targets.
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We are launching two new Mastodon instances for activists and campaigners to aid communication of grassroot groups; putting social media back in our hands by providing a free, unfettered home for campaigners, NGO’s and activists to communicate among their peers and beyond.
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This project is a way out of the restricted, algorithmic, for-profit mediation and commercialisation of communication we increasingly experience. If you do not pay to "boost" each post, a Facebook page will only reach 3-6% of members. This soon becomes an expensive drain on limited NGO and activist budgets.
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Activists and campaigners alike are ready to shift their outreach away from the corporate social networks paid-per-view “walled gardens”.
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Mastodon is the worlds largest free open source decentralised microblogging network; it’s thousands of unique, interconnected communities, filled with different people, interests, languages, and needs.
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You’re free to join any community you like, or better yet, host your own, on your own terms. It remains possible for members of each to instance to interact with others.
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There is no monopoly by a single commercial company, no ads, and no tracking.
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We aim to help activism/campaigning groups to make this step now.
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<a href="https://campaign.openworlds.info/" target="_blank">https://campaign.openworlds.info</a>
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<a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/" target="_blank">https://activism.openworlds.info</a>
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A note on Security and Privacy - these take a somewhat different shape within the #openweb. Have a <a href="https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Openweb-mastodon/wiki/Security-privacy" target="_blank">read</a> about our thoughts on the matter.
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<a href="https://github.com/Openmedianetwork/openweb/wiki/How-OMN-projects-are-run" target="_blank"><abbr title="Open Media Network">How are OMN projects run?</abbr></a>
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