Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci
@chandrn.bsky.social
Gobo. DashKite. Formerly @idpiumass.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org.
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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
June 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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
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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
Hucklemelon
Conversations about tech policy, the mental health system, and schemes for change. By Dan Fichter [email protected]
hucklemelon.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
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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...
What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity | TechPolicy.Press
Mila Samdub and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci disentangle two different visions of digital public infrastructure (DPI): DPI as roads, and DPI as radio.
www.techpolicy.press
November 26, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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...
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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...
Illustrations by Fiammetta Ghedini of RIVA Illustrations.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illu...
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
knightcolumbia.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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...
Illustrations by Fiammetta Ghedini of RIVA Illustrations.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illu...
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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.
What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity | TechPolicy.Press
Mila Samdub and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci disentangle two different visions of digital public infrastructure (DPI): DPI as roads, and DPI as radio.
www.techpolicy.press
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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.
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testing gobo.social/, a new multi protocol client
June 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM
testing gobo.social/, a new multi protocol client
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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... .
Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
knightcolumbia.org
May 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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... .
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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.
April 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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
February 22, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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
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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....
papers.ssrn.com
January 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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....
papers.ssrn.com
January 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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....
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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...
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...
New York to Target Social Media Firms That Charge for Interface
New York would require social media platforms to provide free data to apps that allow users to block hateful speech under legislation state lawmakers are expected to consider next year.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 15, 2023 at 1:12 AM
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...
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...
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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
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
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of l...
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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
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!
We're absolutely thrilled to announce that @mitpress.bsky.social will be publishing our revised and expanded Field Guide to Social Media.
We'll be sharing drafts of essays from the book on our blog, and would love your feedback in the comments throughout that process.
We'll be sharing drafts of essays from the book on our blog, and would love your feedback in the comments throughout that process.
Our Revised and Expanded Field Guide to Social Media is Coming Soon to MIT Press - Initiative for Di...
In 2021, we published An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media with the Knight First Amendment Institute. It was the culmination of a months-long exploration of alternative social media “logics”...
publicinfrastructure.org
November 6, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Excited to be working on this over the next year with @ethanz.bsky.social!
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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.
We're absolutely thrilled to announce that @mitpress.bsky.social will be publishing our revised and expanded Field Guide to Social Media.
We'll be sharing drafts of essays from the book on our blog, and would love your feedback in the comments throughout that process.
We'll be sharing drafts of essays from the book on our blog, and would love your feedback in the comments throughout that process.
Our Revised and Expanded Field Guide to Social Media is Coming Soon to MIT Press - Initiative for Di...
In 2021, we published An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media with the Knight First Amendment Institute. It was the culmination of a months-long exploration of alternative social media “logics”...
publicinfrastructure.org
November 6, 2023 at 5:47 PM
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.
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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/...
October 24, 2023 at 2:24 PM
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/...
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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.
A Better Approach to Privacy for Third-Party Social Media Tools
A robust ecosystem of third-party tools that will require fresh thinking about privacy, say Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman.
techpolicy.press
September 15, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 8, 2023 at 4:12 PM
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
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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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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fascinating read-including some usenet, MUDs, and BBS lore!
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 8, 2023 at 3:35 PM
fascinating read-including some usenet, MUDs, and BBS lore!
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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...
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...
August 31, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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...
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...