Trying out #GoboSocial toolset that launched on #Fediforum...  So far impressed with the mix of simplicity and customiztion for posting across Mastodon and Bluesky at once. Not yet sure how it helps with charcter limits, but nice work, @chandrn.bsky.social

On the first episode of my new podcast, Hucklemelon, I ask three tech policy experts if we could use YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and all the other social media platforms with their algorithms turned off, and a new marketplace of alternative curators turned on: hucklemelon.org

Is digital public infrastructure like roads, an essential infrastructure that others can build businesses on? Or like radio, which makes an informed citizenry possible and is a backbone of democracy? Smart, thoughtful essay engages with some of my work: www.techpolicy.press/what-is-digi...

Thanks! We like them too. They are from a project we did with @ethanz.bsky.social and @chandrn.bsky.social, An Illustrated Field to Social Media. Illustrations by Fiammetta Ghedini of RIVA Illustrations. knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illu...

Mila Samdub and @chandrn.bsky.social disentangle two prominent but very different visions of digital public infrastructure (DPI): DPI as roads, and DPI as radio.

testing gobo.social/, a new multi protocol client

With my brilliant friends at the Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at: knightcolumbia.org/cases/zucker... .

For the next few months, @chandrn.bsky.social and @ethanz.bsky.social are sharing drafts of every chapter in their upcoming "Field Guide to Social Media" on MIT Press. It's a really special project, and we want to invite all of you to take part by telling us what you think in each draft's comments.

We shipped notifications support for Gobo today! You can now post, read, react, and view your notificatons for Bluesky, Mastodon, and Reddit, all in one place. Message me if you're interested in joining our private beta. gobo.social

My colleague @chandrn.bsky.social _ has smart, practical ideas on how we can make data portable not just once, but on an ongoing, regular basis. I love his mix of policy prescriptions and practical, programmer "just do it"...

Just uploaded a working paper about what "continuous and realtime" data portability should look like in practice. In one word: webhooks! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

new york let's goo time for those apis so we can actually make social media less toxic and safer & better for everyone. the recommended approach from fukuyama et al supreme court amicus brief new yorkers: let your state reps know you care about this! news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-cou...

Why should a few companies – or a few billionaires – have the power to decide everything about #socialmedia spaces that billions of people use? In the early days of the social internet, moderation decisions were made by members of the community. By @ethanz.bsky.social and @chandrn.bsky.social

Excited to be working on this over the next year with @ethanz.bsky.social!

w00t! Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and I are publishing a new version of our Field Guide to Social Media. Hope you'll check out what we've done so far and help us think about what should be in the final version.

Yes, social media is awful. Maybe the solution is... giving users more control over moderation? A new piece in The Conversation from Chand and me - theconversation.com/let-the-comm... - based on our recent paper in Social Media + Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A level-headed approach to solving the privacy issues with “middleware” or interoperability. This is the biggest gating issue for changes to our tech ecosystem that could be profoundly game-changing. A workable privacy approach to interoperability would be a HUGE step forward.

We argue that the crisis of legitimacy facing platforms has its roots in their adoption of a "customer service" model of online governance. We propose a return to models of governance that emphasize community participation, drawing on work from @zittrain.bsky.social and Aviv Ovadya, among others

Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and I have a new paper in Social Media and Society on the evolution of content moderation as a profession. We look at the early history of content moderation and how we abandoned models of community governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

fascinating read-including some usenet, MUDs, and BBS lore!

Great work from @chandrn.bsky.social with a modest assist from me: a framework for thinking about how third party tools can make social media work better while respecting the privacy of users involved. techpolicy.press/a-better-app...