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Healthy Digital Public Spaces
A range of thinkers and organizations steering us toward healthier online experiences. A work in progress. Who should we add?
@louisbarclay.bsky.social
Senior fellow @ Mozilla, technologist & writer at https://directingattention.substack.com
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author. https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/ http://brightlinewatch.org
@jamestplunkett.bsky.social
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together. Also digital stuff. Book: End State: http://amzn.to/3FzY7lv. 🏳️⚧️
@coralineada.bsky.social
Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
@benjamindhorne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences @ UT-Knoxville. I study trust in media ecosystems, particularly when interventions are introduced. Computational Social Science | Disinformation | Content Moderation | Alt-Tech benjamindhorne.github.io
@ssir.org
We're a self-funded nonprofit publication with a mission to inform and inspire leaders of social change. Support us by subscribing at ssir.org.
@reidhoffman.bsky.social
Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
@moreincommonus.bsky.social
We seek to understand the forces driving us apart, find common ground, and help bring Americans together to tackle our shared challenges.
@hendersonma.bsky.social
Founder, The016.com, news- and civic-focused social media for Worcester. Proud husband, father & Holden townie. I post about media, tech & Worcester.
@codingconnor.bsky.social
I write code, and I advocate for coders to take a more critical look at the impact of technology on our mental health 🧠, our civic discourse 🗣️, and income inequality 🤑 I’m intellectually fascinated, and socially terrified, by AI.
@natalan.bsky.social
philosopher working on knowledge, community, social media & social change. good politics. "nervous but brave". she/her.
@cubicgarden.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Senior firestarter at BBC RD, emergent technology expert and serial social geek event organiser. http://www.cubicgarden.com | @cubicgarden on Bluesky [bridged from https://mas.to/@cubicgarden on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@self.agency
fmr. publisher of jewish worker, jewschool, & orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead at nylon mag, jta news, & repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. aft & iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny. 🔗 https://self.agency
@librarythingtim.bsky.social
LibraryThing founder. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic. I tweet books, libraries, technology, culture. LibraryThing: @librarything.com
@tiziano.bsky.social
CS Postdoc @ Stanford HCI | Prev: PhD @ EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
@abbyohlheiser.bsky.social
Doom beat journalist who writes goth blogs for a bunch of places. they/them 💛🤍💜🖤 https://linktr.ee/abbyohlheiser | awohlheiser@proton.me
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.) YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.) Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan) Opposed to Tuberculosis
@mariapopova.bsky.social
Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
@peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world. 👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech 📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
@tanyaocarroll.bsky.social
Accountable & equitable tech. Senior Fellow, Foxglove Legal suing Meta. Co-founder Amnesty Tech and @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
@werd.io
I lead technology at ProPublica, write speculative fiction, and blog every day at https://werd.io.
@scripting.com
Bluesky: Add two-way RSS, so we can re-establish contact and flow if they go down or sell out. This is "just enough decentralization" for users, could be done in a few weeks. I would help. Then Masto can support it too and we'd be living in the future.
@rudyfraser.com
Founder & CEO, @blacksky.app Building community networks and technologies blackskyweb.xyz + wethepeople.nyc move fast and break chains; revolution now; not tomorrow—now. 🏴☠️ 🔗: https://linkat.blue/rudyfraser.com
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@freeourfeeds.com
It's time to free social media from billionaire control. FreeOurFeeds.com Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae
@christiannaj.bsky.social
i write about digital culture + tech at mashable liberty and yankees fan (sorry)
@moonalice.com
From 1982 to 2015, I invested in tech. Since 2016, I have been working for reform of the tech industry. Author of NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Musician in Moonalice (https://www.moonalice.com/splash) Phillies fan.
@nabiha.bsky.social
Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
@digiphile.bsky.social
Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
Creative Director at The Verge, author of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
@deeptidoshi.bsky.social
Co-Director, @newpublic.substack.com Formerly: Facebook, Haiyya, Escuela Nueva, Acumen Mama, Aiden + Luca
@mariaressa.bsky.social
@nathalievanraemdonck.com
Social media networks and social norms, PhD student at Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
@markruffalo.bsky.social
A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
@connectsafely.bsky.social
ConnectSafely is a Silicon Valley, Calif.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about online safety, privacy, security and digital wellness with lots of resources for parents, teens, educators and policy makers
@amandahoover.bsky.social
Writing about tech and the ways it reshapes our lives for @BusinessInsider. Past lives @ WIRED, NJ.com, The Boston Globe
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@freedomhouse.bsky.social
A prodemocracy organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.
@playawfulthings.bsky.social
Ambassador for the non-profit Newsmast Foundation, towards a social media that works. For more --> @newsmast.bsky.social & https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/ Chat to me about the social web, dogs, comics, history & politics.
@whstancil.bsky.social
Minnesota guy. "This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
@sambiddle.com
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.11 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device) https://sambiddle.com