Well this makes me really wish Apple would approve @divine.video in to the AppStore.... we're stuck with 10k TestFlight users and no more.

Can we build an internet centered around human rights? I sat down with @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy to talk about building the social web for all of us. youtu.be/BBrJpbN4Lw4?...

We're trying to revive the original dream of Vine. techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/j...

I miss Vine. I miss authentic human social media instead of AI slop. Being able to choose who you follow rather than being force fed content by adversarial algorithms. So I built a thing to bring the idea of Vine back. techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/j...

Today at @websummit.bsky.social in Lisbon, @rabble.nz sat down with Cory Doctorow to discuss why Big Tech’s power harms society & why “move fast and break things” isn’t always progress. Tomorrow, he joins @jb55.bsky.social and @harrymccracken.com to discuss building a freer, decentralized internet.

This week, @rabble.nz takes the stage twice at @websummit.bsky.social 🇵🇹 He joins @jb55.bsky.social & @harrymccracken.com on Nov 13 to discuss how open, decentralized protocols like Nostr can power a freer internet. Building on Nostr: Open Protocols & New Possibilities websummit.com/sessions/lis...

Our host, @rabble.nz is speaking at @websummit.bsky.social this week! 🇵🇹 He joins Cory Doctorow on Nov 12 to discuss how “enshittification” took over tech, & how we can build an open, decentralized internet. 🎤 A Post-American, Enshittification-Resistant Internet: websummit.com/sessions/lis...

An absolute must-listen episode of Revolution.Social. Part important history lesson, part strategy for a decentralized future for media. Thank you for the awesome convo & insights @rabble.nz and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social revolution.social/episodes/jef...

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There are many ways individuals and organizations can resist oppression, including technologists and tech policy advocates, who must use their skills to identify and interrupt the use of technology in service of authoritarianism, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Dia Kayyali.

For fucks sake. @julie-brill.bsky.social managed to completely screw up @audreyt.org’s pronouns while introducing them and then dismissed it by saying “whatever”. @mozilla.org why have someone moderate a #mozfest panel on the main stage who can’t get basic pronouns of trans panelists right?

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

After decades of political activism, Srđa Popović has witnessed how technology has transformed the way movements emerge and operate. Social media can turn a single viral moment into a fast-spreading, hard-to-oppress movement. Full episode with @rabble.nz, out now.

He helped overthrow Serbia’s dictator in 2000 without violence. Now, political activist Srđa Popović teaches others how to build impactful nonviolent movements. Full episode with @rabble.nz, out now.

This is something I’d expect of grok not Claude Sonnet.

Pamela Wisniewski, a researcher who studies how teens & parents navigate online life, tells @rabble.nz that when kids see something inappropriate online, the answer isn’t to take away their device. It’s to turn it into a teachable moment around digital safety. Ep w/ @pamwis.bsky.social, out now.

Pamela Wisniewski studies how teens use the internet, & says we’ve failed to create spaces for kids to just be kids online. One idea is to create kids-only spaces with trusted moderators, rather than restrictive age verifications that lock them out of all social media. Ep w/ @rabble.nz out now.

Pamela Wisniewski, researcher at UC Berkeley-affiliated ICSI, says we shouldn’t hand teens the keys to the internet without proper training. How do you think we should teach teens digital literacy and online safety? At home, in school, or both? Ep w @rabble.nz & @pamwis.bsky.social out now.

Our host, @rabble.nz, joined @mmasnick.bsky.social on the Techdirt podcast to talk about the history and future of decentralized social media. Listen to “An Insider’s View Of Decentralized Social Media” on @techdirt.com, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.techdirt.com/2025/10/21/t...

I recently joined @rabble.nz on @revolution.social Podcast to talk about what it really takes to make the internet safer for teens and why strict bans may not be the best solution. 🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM #DigitalSafety #TeensOnline #SafetyByDesign #DigitalCitizenship #TechForGood

How do we help kids and teens use social media, phones, and the internet in a healthier way? It’s by working with them instead of trying to ban or restrict their access. Dr Pamela Wisniewski is the world’s leading researcher on how to protect kids online. It’s by working with them not banning!

Our host, @rabble.nz, reflects on how AI has changed what it means to be a great programmer. It’s no longer about how early you started coding or memorization, it’s about how creatively you can build. Full episode out now.

Last week, journalist @jeffjarvis.bsky.social joined @rabble.nz to talk about the challenges of decentralized platforms like Mastodon. Freedom online sounds great, until you have to run the servers yourself. The solution? Open protocols that share responsibility across communities. Ep out now.

Blacksky Algorithms is communal infrastructure.

To celebrate the launch of Cory Doctorow’s book, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It”, revisit his chat with @rabble.nz on why imagining a better internet is the first step to building it. Full ep wherever you get your podcasts!

An engaging conversation with friend @rabble.nz about what we did wrong and what we could do right with the future of the internet and AI:

Is Bluesky open enough to fill the dream and promise? @jeffjarvis.bsky.social says not yet.

At 2389 Research, @harper.lol’s team builds AI with a people-first mindset. Instead of racing ahead, they ask how innovation will affect work, labor, and community. They aim to make their impact more human than harmful. Ep with @rabble.nz, out now

While the idea of a general strike in the US against Trump seems unthinkable. In New Zealand there's a massive strike, against gradual cuts in staffing and refusal to raise salaries to keep up with inflation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

New Zealand needs to get a handle on it's insane public infrastructure costs. Most developed countries spend way less... We can either bankrupt the country or improve government tenders and infrastructure... of course that'd mean not sending so many tax dollars to National party donors.

There are things that the apple ecosystem does that drives me crazy. One is how the 'share sheet' for files and links doesn't let you save or copy the files... I'm constantly wondering... why it is i have to send a file to notes or text it to somebody in order to copy and paste it or save it.

I knew there were a lot of American immigrants to Aotearoa New Zealand but I didn’t know we were the 5th biggest group by new arrivals with the numbers going up fast. Come join, but learn some Te Reo and Toi tu Te Tiriti (respect the treaty with Māori). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigra...

No matter how advanced it gets, AI will always inherit the biases of its creators. For instance, AI can turn PDFs into structured data in seconds, but if you ask it to remove racist bias, that’s impossible. Full ep w/ @harper.lol, CEO of 2389 Research, and host @rabble.nz out now.

A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible. If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.

Kudos to @dol.gov for being the only US government department to figure out how DID:PLC works!

Are you a lawyer? Do you enjoy working on small teams tackling big things? We’re hiring a senior counsel. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

It is fundamentally a good thing that official US Government accounts are being setup on Bluesky. It is moving them to a more open protocol based commons for public government communications instead of private corporate platforms. Just like the EU commission’s ec.social-network.europa.eu/about

Ok. I’m glad that it’s @jay.bsky.team who gets the thankless job of driving Bluesky and not me! She’s making the right choice here but damn…..

They do know they can have @whitehouse.gov as their user name and instead of @whitehouse-47.bsky.social right? They choose a terrible user name!

“Codegen is going to destroy the tech industry as we know it.” @harper.lol, CEO of 2389 Research, says AI code generation will turn junior engineers into factory workers & hurt mid-level devs struggling to keep up. The new tech is helping capitalism move faster. Full ep with @rabble.nz out now.

We got so close to completely removing this right wing troll from office. #wellington #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This week’s episode of revolution.social is with @harper.lol we’re we talk about social media for AI agents to talk to each other, how he went from a nomadic anarchist circus performer to being CTO of the Obama re-election campaign where they developed radical new forms of targeting voters.

Harper Reed, CEO of 2389 Research, joins @rabble.nz to talk about how AI shapes the way we build, create, and connect. From AI bias to agent collaboration, @harper.lol asks what responsible tech looks like in an unpredictable world. Full episode out now: youtu.be/pZZXhCTbd5k

"It is called social media, not monetized media." @rabble.nz and @davidbollier.bsky.social say economic systems should come second to social relationships online. The challenge is to build digital spaces that support cooperation instead of consumption. Full episode, out now.

Trying out notebooklm created videos trained on my revolution.social podcast. Here's a video about how hard it is to do content moderation, based on my discussions with @yoyoel.com, @noupside.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @coachtony.bsky.social, and others....

When the music industry tried to stop digital sharing, it nearly destroyed itself. David Bollier explains how markets depend on trust and cooperation, yet often destroy the very social ties they need to survive. Full episode with @rabble.nz and @davidbollier.bsky.social, out now.

The commons is critical to understanding the future of social media and protocols. The ATmosphere is a commons. How do we cultivate and govern this commons we’re building together.

Jonathan Haidt is a charlatan whose conclusions are based on bias and not science. Real social scientists who study the effects of social media and the internet thinks his prescriptions for the internet have no grounding in evidence. Yet he’s driving a movement to outlaw open source social media.

Online slang spreads faster than ever, but not always with its meaning intact. As @etymologynerd.bsky.social explains, algorithms accelerate context collapse, collapsing boundaries between cultures and mixing language faster than ever. Full episode with @rabble.nz, out now.

Our host, @rabble.nz, joined @malwarebytes.com's Lock and Code podcast to talk about what’s still good in social media and what’s being done to preserve it. Listen to Rabble and host @davidalruiz.bsky.social on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...