Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.
More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Alice Chan (left) and Rabble (right) seated.
We had a great time recording new content for you at the 1 Billion Followers Summit!
Pictured here are our host, @rabble.nz, and executive producer, @ac555.bsky.social, in Dubai.
Looking forward to what’s coming next!
You have a 5th grader?! We are so overdue a catch up!
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!
Rudy Fraser, founder of Blacksky, joins @rabble.nz to discuss building a community-owned social network.
From mutual aid to moderation to infrastructure, Blacksky shows how users can control their feeds and future online.
Full episode with @rude1.blacksky.team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1D...
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”
Big social platforms monetize our data & assume we all want the same.
@rude1.blacksky.team, founder of Blacksky, is building a subscription-funded, community-owned network that puts people before advertisers.
Ep out now.
Mike Masnick on Growing Bluesky, Clueless Regulators & the Case for Optimism
This week, @rabble.nz and @mmasnick.bsky.social cover Bluesky’s AT Protocol, why age verification laws fail, lessons from open protocols, & how to align incentives with user freedom.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s73B...
We’re used to living online under a few billionaires. If something’s wrong, we complain, leave, or hope lawmakers act.
@mmasnick.bsky.social calls this “learned helplessness.” Bluesky’s idea of letting people choose their own algorithms and moderation aims to give that control back.
Ep out now.
This week, Cory Doctorow joins @rabble.nz to talk about the enshitification of social media, the fight for online privacy, and strategies for a better internet.
As a bestselling author and activist, Cory shows how the imagination of sci-fi connects to the imagination of activism.
Episode out now.
Apps like Bluesky and Mastodon promise more control, like custom feeds, algorithms, and even subscribing to others’ moderation rules.
But as @noupside.bsky.social tells @rabble.nz, most people want “stupid simple” with familiar feeds and centralized moderation like X.
Full episode out.
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In his chat with @rabble.nz, @yoyoel.com explains why recognizing your own perspective and biases is crucial to making responsible moderation decisions in online communities.
Listen to the full conversation:
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/67CP...
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Big Tech didn’t build the internet—they privatized it.
@karaswisher.bsky.social tells @rabble.nz how tech founders turned public infrastructure into private platforms—and hid behind Section 230 to dodge accountability.
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/0X1D...
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/k...
Did Mark Zuckerberg ever care about community?
@karaswisher.bsky.social says no—he’s always been focused on power, control, and profit.
Watch the full episode of Revolution.Social, out now:
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0X1D...
🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/k...
Thrilled to be the exec producer on this podcast. First episode drops Thursday!
Twitter’s first employee @rabble.nz asks: What if social media were for people, not profit?
Revolution.Social is a new podcast about taking the internet back from Elon, Zuck, and Thiel.
🚨Ep.1 drops July 17
🔗Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
🔗Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4wAyssF...
Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
I just finished Extremely Online by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Really good take on social media history. Fascinating the dichotomy between the understanding and experience of platforms when viewed from the perspective of its most popular users vs what it’s like from the people building it.
I’m at the Web Summit conference in Vancouver, where I talked with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber. Tidbits from our conversation in this week’s Plugged In newsletter. www.fastcompany.com/91342316/blu...
Looking forward to seeing @pennydaflos.bsky.social chat with @rabble.nz about why we need a new social media bill of rights. #websummitvancouver
I got a few minutes backstage in Vancouver with @jay.bsky.team to talk about Bluesky and her ambitious vision for fixing social media
She has a compelling blend of optimism and realism and I’m so interested to see how she charts this path
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Had a really interesting conversation with @allisonbraley1.bsky.social and Julie Choi at @websummit.bsky.social Vancouver yesterday about the impact of AI on Marketing for startups. Replay here: youtu.be/hXqIM9BnTdE?...
Listening to @harrymccracken.com talk to some big brains about Quantum Computing at @websummit.bsky.social
Love this!
@jay.bsky.team
@jay.bsky.team speaking live at @websummit.bsky.social in Vancouver!
Need some creative inspiration?? I've been noticing the lackluster marketing especially in tech. We can do better! Some thoughts and tips... medium.com/micro-doses-...
Episode 2 continued to deliver!
