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We've got ~15 videos scheduled to go out over the next few weeks, some of them are trailers for other independent media outlets, some of them are deep dives into media history, some of them are listicles, some of them are interviews.
Lots of things.
There will be lots more to come, but this is where we start!
If you make videos on the internet, and you'd like for us to help hype you up, reach out!
We're here to storm the castle. Hold on tight.
Our website is also in a much better state than it was when the announcement post went out:
Alright! The Community Broadcasting Network is on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/welcome-to-151846458
Our first post is up now.
We're using the patreon free tier as a stand-in for a newsletter. If you want to follow along with what we're doing, that's absolutely the best place to do it. !
If you're a regular YouTube user, please consider watching our announcement trailer there, and maybe even giving it a like or a subscribe or a comment.
We're trying to get enough attention on the silos to start pulling people out of the silos.
Announcing the Community Broadcasting Network
The trailer is live.
You can watch it on YouTube (https://youtu.be/N97vqR1pVOY) or on PeerTube (https://communitymedia.video/w/icMDFVmUA8jC8WEDFei1SB). It's a short video that tries to answer a simple question: what happens when a community picks up cameras and starts telling its own stories?
For me, that question started with New Ellijay Television (https://newellijay.tv). NETV is a community access station in the north Georgia mountains, powered by local producers. It's real TV for real people in one specific place. That project taught me that the tools for making television are now in everyone's hands. The only thing missing was a reason to use them together.
I tried to write down those reasons in a book called Community Media (https://communitymedia.network). It's a handbook for what I called a revolution in DIY TV. The message was simple: produce your own media, become the media, join the revolution.
But a book can only do so much. Television needs a network.
So here it is. The Community Broadcasting Network (https://communitybroadcasting.network (the website isn't finished, sorry! It'll be done soon) is a new hub for creative, community centered storytelling.
It's for the people who are already making videos about their towns, their passions, their small things. It's also for people who are tired of the algorithmic feed and want to watch something real.
The network will live on both YouTube and PeerTube. We're using the big platforms to reach people, but we're also planting a flag on the independent web. That feels important.
You can follow along on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/communitybroadcastingnetwork/) for updates and previews. The website and fediverse accounts are still a work in progress, but it will grow as we do.
If you want to support the work directly, we've started a Patreon (https://patreon.com/CommunityBroadcastingNetwork). That's also where a newsletter will live, along with behind the scenes content and first looks at new videos. Your support helps us find and share more stories from more places.
Welcome to the network!
@dansinker I wrote about this a while ago at HTTPS://communitymedia.Network and started a television network ( HTTPS://newellijay.TV ) based on my belief that community media is the only way we survive the coming years.
Shipping this Father and Son duo out today as a birthday present for someone who always wanted a Great Garloo and never got one.
This is a very neat thing to get paid to do.
Hey #gamedev folks, I am looking for an opinion.
I make gameboy color games, using GB Studio.
I might eventually make other kinds of games using other tools.
I distribute my games through itch right now.
I want to continue to distribute my games through itch, but I hear the Siren Song of Steam and the Google Play store.
What do you think, should I distribute on Steam/Google Play?
@rebane2001 Oh jesus.
Oh, found some more Toxic Avenger too!
I just got a few screenshots of an upcoming toy release.
We're doing a line of Sky Pirate keshis.
These are early sculpts that will probably get another round of revisions or two before it goes into production, and there are ... 5 or 6 action figures, and at least one other Keshi ahead of it, but it'll go into production at some point this year.
But yeah! Behind the scenes peek at an upcoming Keshi.
@imcdowall @jalefkowit This is absolutely not why things suck.
The incentives of capitalism are towards Dark Patterns and systems that lie to you.
@jalefkowit I've been sharpening the pitchforks.
@jalefkowit Even when we *have* spent our entire lives marinating in it, so much of modern computing is still impossible to navigate.
Youtube accounts have 4 separate "settings" sections, many of which have identically named settings, some of which control the same settings, some of which are entirely separate from one another.
Got a few more warehouse finds up on the website today.
Highlights include Ghostface, Alice Cooper, Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, and Hammer Horror's renditions of Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Mummy, and The Phantom of the Opera.
