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Tim Trautmann @timtrautmann.com Working photographer in Portland, Oregon. Actively building something nice on the AT Protocol. gifthood.org gifthood.community timtrautmann.com
Surf @surf.social Surf the social web. Create feeds for any interest or community. Visit surf.social. Get the app: waitlist.surf.social
Streamplace @stream.place Solving video for everybody forever. Starting with live video on the AT Protocol. Check us out at https://stream.place Get the app for iOS and Android! https://app.stream.place Follow @iame.li for dev streams almost every day!
Eli Mallon @iame.li (it spells "i am eli") Trying to solve video for everybody forever at @stream.place, I livestream dev almost every day Seattle via Minnesota, he/him
Tynan Purdy ⁂ @tynanpurdy.com Designer and social web ⁂ advocate 🍻 @atproto.boston 🔎 @ecosystemaction.com 🤖 @lobstahbots.com 🌐 https://tynanpurdy.com 🔗 https://links.tynanpurdy.com 💬 Signal @tynanpurdy.95
Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs. Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.
Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org We're the leading nonprofit open social web project in the UK. We're reconnecting people & organisations with their online community. linktr.ee/newsmast ❌✉️ - Don't DM us, we won't see your message! Email support@newsmast.org
PublicSpaces @publicspaces.net Posts are automatically redirected via Mastodon: social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces PublicSpaces is a broad coalition of social and cultural organisations working towards a public values focused internet & digital ecosystem. Join us! publicspaces.net
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics. Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) https://josemarichal.github.io/
Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net Technologist, researcher, fascinated at how new technologies enable new politics, and vice versa. @tchambers@indieweb.social on Mastodon, which you can follow via: @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Natalie Foster @nataliefoster.bsky.social Economic Security Project cofounder. Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative Senior Fellow. “The Guarantee” is my 3rd child
Council on Tech and Social Cohesion @socialcohesiontech.bsky.social We are catalyzing a robust, interconnected field of technology for social cohesion.
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
Justin Bank @bankonjustin.com Building: www.journalismatlas.com Formers: WaPo, NPR, NYTimes, Factcheck.org
Monnett @monnett.social See your friends. Reject surveillance. Don’t be a product. Social media made in Europe 🇪🇺 BE EARLY, BE FIRST, GET BETA👇🏼 Download: https://monnett.social/get-app Web: https://monnett.social/ Need help? 💌 hello@monnett.social
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com
The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good. Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social Senior editor at Futurism.com
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
Attie @attie.ai The future of social, built by you. https://attie.ai/feeds
Protocols for Publishers @protocolsforpublishers.com Bringing together publishers and developers for a sustainable agentic web https://protocolsforpublishers.com (account run by @chadkoh.com)
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
Jantien Borsboom @jantien.eurosky.social
Catherine Tait @cjtait.bsky.social Currently Expert-In-Residence at @newpublic.org. Former CEO at CBC/Radio-Canada
Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social Co-Lead @eurosky.social | Creator of the 3rd party Bluesky apps Flashes @flashes.blue, Skeets @skeetsapp.com & Bluescreen @bluescreen.blue
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz Blacksky Algorithms | virtual 3rd places run by users [ blacksky.community ] @moderation.blacksky.app - moderation service move.blacksky.community - host your data with us docs.blacksky.community - support & learn more [ blackskyweb.xyz ]
Center for News, Technology & Innovation @cnti.bsky.social The Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) is an independent global research center, seeking to encourage independent, sustainable media, maintain an open internet and foster informed public policy conversations.
Asia Hoe @asiahoe.com UX Designer armed with curiosity, tenacity, and a serious case of dev envy. I design products for people and speak about societal and ethical impacts of technology. I'm also an avid gamer, and dabble in art, words, and code. (She/Her) https://asiahoe.com
Life With Machines @lifewithmachines.bsky.social Life With Machines explores the human side of the A.I. revolution – the good, the bad, and the weird – and asks, “How can these machines help us become more human?”
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web! 📝 powerful publishing tools 🛠️ 🌱 for new writers & pros 🌿 🗣️ to connect & grow 👯 📖 + ✍️ @ leaflet.pub Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub Code: tangled.org/leaflet.pub/leaflet
FediForum @fediforum.org The online unconference for the people who move the Open Social Web forward.
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety. File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies. https://aaronrodericks.com
Charles Duhigg @cduhigg.bsky.social Writer at the New Yorker Magazine, and Random House. Find me at charlesduhigg.com
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member. pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content. Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused! #AtmosphereConf is a wrap! See https://atmosphereconf.org for talks & videos
Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social Open social tech in the public interest https://www.modalfoundation.org/
revolution.social Podcast @revolution.social Revolution.Social is a podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. It's hosted by Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath. Check it out: https://revolution.social
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news. 🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social Host of Question Everything from KCRW and Placement Theory: lnk.to/khCBOC Co-founder of Placement Theory Host of S-Town; Co-Host of The Trojan Horse Affair (Serial/New York Times); formerly senior producer at This American Life Signal: brihreed.45
Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social Generalist fascinated by complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of Common Tools. https://komoroske.com
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration. What if we made things a little bit better?
Michael Slaby @slaby.bsky.social
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards co-founder @weareotv BOOKS: Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025 Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity The Cookout, out now ⬇️ http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Eli Stark-Elster @eselster.bsky.social cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist at UC Davis | writer Substack: https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/
Engaged California @engaged-california.bsky.social A statewide platform that empowers Californians through deliberative democracy.
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
Elan Ullendorff @elan.place Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive" Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly 💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
Kelly Stonelake (she/her) @kellystonelake.bsky.social Former Meta executive turned whistleblower and advocate for kids' online safety, common sense tech regulations, suicide prevention, healthcare equity, and safer workplaces for those on the margins. AuDHD, MCAS, POTS, EDS overturned.substack.com
Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online I write the Fediverse Report, a news site about what is happening in the fediverse. This is my personal account, where I share and comment on anything I find interesting. I care about an ethical internet. He/him. From the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com Nuisance and shitposter CEO @graze.social - talk to me about building on ATProto / Bluesky!
Graze Social @graze.social Own your algorithm. 👉 https://graze.social/ ⚙️ Need product support? Skip the DMs: https://tinyurl.com/3hcabn8v ✨ Building something cool? Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/Y6UkgsFx4D
Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com Co-Founder @graze.social, @cocore.dev Co-Host of @devtools.fm Creator of @kich.io, @kikbak.tv, @atstore.fyi, @standard-reader.app hipstersmoothie.com
Amira Dhalla @amira.bsky.social Focused on tech as it intersects with privacy, security, equity & rights. Always thinking about community care 🌱
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Mills Baker @mills.bsky.social Head of Design at Substack // thedeadhorses.substack.com // ratsfromrocks.substack.com // mills.land
Kevin Simler @kevinsimler.bsky.social
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project. #DisabilityJustice feed I created: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho More about me https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Scott Heiferman @heif.com meetup https://lnk.bio/OK4v
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.bsky.social Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social nonfiction book reviewer. mfa student. mostly writing and talking about books, media, climate change, politics, and my cats.
Dr. Jay Barchas-Lichtenstein (they/them) @drnycnerd.bsky.social Journalism researcher, linguistic anthropologist, fiction writer. Some things I discuss: language & social meaning, news media, #binders, puns, food. Now: @cnti.bsky.social Once: @knology.org My colleagues & I made: https://www.reportingwithnumbers.com/
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own. https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs denniscrowley.com
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman @tarensk.bsky.social Founder, AI Impact Lab and Ekō. Pickleball fanatic. Parenting is hard. She/her.
julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social connecting research to practice @ prosocialdesign.org. supporting social cohesion @ civichealthproject.org. dog mama in NYC.
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation. App: mu.social Accounts: move.eurosky.tech Discover: portal.eurosky.tech Web: eurosky.tech Help: eurosky.tech/help Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
JJ @jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social Communications | Geopolitics | Humor Huge fan of democracy. Least favorite pastime: Watching things happen after being told they can’t possibly happen Header photo: Olivier Matthys AP
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social On Mondays Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Wednesdays he hosts The Weekly Show. Listen wherever you get your podcasts & watch on YouTube.
A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social Author of Future Tense. Speculative tech anthropology. Essays + serialized fiction about the future we're building now. https://azmackay.com
Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Reporting begins here.
Patricia Campos Mello @camposmello.bsky.social Jornalista da Folha e comentarista da TV Cultura. Autora: "Lua de Mel em Kobane", "Máquina do Ódio". Vencedora: Maria Moors Cabot, Int'l Liberdade de Imprensa, Vladimir Herzog, Rei da Espanha. Formada pela USP, mestrado na NYU, ex-pesquisadora Columbia
Tony Haile @arctictony.com CEO of Filament. Recovering Twitter PM, Founding CEO of Scroll and Chartbeat. "A glib non-journalist" - Jill Abramson "British" - Walter Isaacson
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org Founder w3.org My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/ Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier https://www.julianlucas.com
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide @stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios)
KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social 📻 KQED's daily news call-in program, 9-11 AM on 88.5FM. 🎙️ Co-hosted by Alexis Madrigal (9-10 AM hour) and Mina Kim (10-11 AM hour). 💬 Replies may be used on air. 📍 San Francisco Bay Area, CA
KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org Bay Area public radio and digital news. Sign up for our daily newsletter: http://kqed.org/newsletters
Civic Health Project @civichealthproject.bsky.social Harnessing social cohesion technology to create digital spaces that foster connection, reduce polarization, and strengthen democracy online and offline.
Technology & Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org An issue area of New America made up of programs, projects, and initiatives dedicated to shaping a digital ecosystem that is safer, open, and inclusive.
Alexandra @chezpanique.bsky.social Editor. Writer. Photography-curious. Rabbit hole explorer. Language nerd (🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇷🇴). Talk to me about online subcultures, misinformation and your fav urbex spots Editor @ Untested: https://untested.sonnet.io/ Substack: https://blogtherapy.substack.com/
Jack Conte @jackconte.bsky.social Half of Pomplamoose and Scary Pockets, CEO & Cofounder @Patreon.
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social