Deepti Doshi
@deeptidoshi.bsky.social
Co-Director, @newpublic.substack.com
Formerly: Facebook, Haiyya, Escuela Nueva, Acumen
Mama, Aiden + Luca
Formerly: Facebook, Haiyya, Escuela Nueva, Acumen
Mama, Aiden + Luca
It’s here! Honored to contribute to this important anthology from The All American and present a vision for the future that makes people feel hopeful and less alone.
A new, hopeful, and deeply patriotic essay collection is lighting the way against authoritarianism.
It features a piece by our Co-Director @deeptidoshi.bsky.social, as well as luminaries like Anne-Marie Slaughter, Micah Sifry, & Ilyse Houge.
The entire anthology is available to download for free ⬇️
It features a piece by our Co-Director @deeptidoshi.bsky.social, as well as luminaries like Anne-Marie Slaughter, Micah Sifry, & Ilyse Houge.
The entire anthology is available to download for free ⬇️
The All American
www.theallamerican.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s here! Honored to contribute to this important anthology from The All American and present a vision for the future that makes people feel hopeful and less alone.
Like me, @blaine.bsky.social wants to build a platform for local digital spaces because HE wants it to exist. We’re thrilled to have him, and it makes me even more confident that we’re going to get this right!
Twitter was built as an organizing tool from the start. As one of its first coders, @blaine.bsky.social developed features (like the @ reply) with and for activists.
Read about how Blaine's focus on pro-social tech drove his journey from 90s activism to building local digital spaces at New_ Public.
Read about how Blaine's focus on pro-social tech drove his journey from 90s activism to building local digital spaces at New_ Public.
🐦💙 He coded Twitter. Now he’s building tech for New_ Public
A Q&A with Blaine Cook, our new Principal Software Engineer for Local
newpublic.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Like me, @blaine.bsky.social wants to build a platform for local digital spaces because HE wants it to exist. We’re thrilled to have him, and it makes me even more confident that we’re going to get this right!
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We love to see digital civic experimentation at every level of government.
After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.
After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.
July 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We love to see digital civic experimentation at every level of government.
After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.
After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.
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Our Co-Director @deeptidoshi.bsky.social draws on her parents' journey to the U.S. to argue that American ideals only become real through local community action.
To Deepti, our neighborhoods, schools, and digital spaces are where we actually practice freedom together — not just defend it from afar.
To Deepti, our neighborhoods, schools, and digital spaces are where we actually practice freedom together — not just defend it from afar.
🇺🇸🗽🎆 Real freedom starts with community
New_ Public Co-Director Deepti Doshi says our rights must be lived out in our neighborhoods, communities, and shared digital spaces
newpublic.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our Co-Director @deeptidoshi.bsky.social draws on her parents' journey to the U.S. to argue that American ideals only become real through local community action.
To Deepti, our neighborhoods, schools, and digital spaces are where we actually practice freedom together — not just defend it from afar.
To Deepti, our neighborhoods, schools, and digital spaces are where we actually practice freedom together — not just defend it from afar.
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For almost the entire 30 years I’ve spent making things on the internet, I’ve helped build and grow strong online communities. But the internet kinda feels broken. Everyone feels disconnected and overwhelmed.
So I’m joining @wearenewpublic.bsky.social to imagine something different and build it
So I’m joining @wearenewpublic.bsky.social to imagine something different and build it
March 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
For almost the entire 30 years I’ve spent making things on the internet, I’ve helped build and grow strong online communities. But the internet kinda feels broken. Everyone feels disconnected and overwhelmed.
So I’m joining @wearenewpublic.bsky.social to imagine something different and build it
So I’m joining @wearenewpublic.bsky.social to imagine something different and build it
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Digital community-building is on the agenda at #SXSW2025!
New_ Public's @deeptidoshi.bsky.social joins a panel to share her hands-on experience building digital tools that foster more democratic online spaces.
Catch Innovating Democracy: New Ways to Power the People on Monday at 4pm CST!
New_ Public's @deeptidoshi.bsky.social joins a panel to share her hands-on experience building digital tools that foster more democratic online spaces.
Catch Innovating Democracy: New Ways to Power the People on Monday at 4pm CST!
Innovating Democracy: New Ways To Power The People
SXSW 2025 Schedule | Americans are divided, with trust in government and democratic institutions at historic lows. We're stuck, unable to agree on solutions to big problems. Innovations that bring people together outside political echo chambers offer a practical path forward. This panel will delve into how digital tools can foster community, how citizen assemblies can tackle divisive issues, and how recent psychology research can help us find common ground in our neighborhoods, businesses, and society. These are ...
schedule.sxsw.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Digital community-building is on the agenda at #SXSW2025!
New_ Public's @deeptidoshi.bsky.social joins a panel to share her hands-on experience building digital tools that foster more democratic online spaces.
Catch Innovating Democracy: New Ways to Power the People on Monday at 4pm CST!
New_ Public's @deeptidoshi.bsky.social joins a panel to share her hands-on experience building digital tools that foster more democratic online spaces.
Catch Innovating Democracy: New Ways to Power the People on Monday at 4pm CST!
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"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires." @eli.bsky.social & @deeptidoshi.bsky.social in MIT Technology Review this morning, with more information about @freeourfeeds.com
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
January 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires." @eli.bsky.social & @deeptidoshi.bsky.social in MIT Technology Review this morning, with more information about @freeourfeeds.com
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
@eli.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed about why we are supporting #FreeourFeeds in this moment!
"...we need to act, because the future of the internet can’t depend on whether one of the richest men on Earth wakes up on the wrong side of the bed."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
"...we need to act, because the future of the internet can’t depend on whether one of the richest men on Earth wakes up on the wrong side of the bed."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
www.technologyreview.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@eli.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed about why we are supporting #FreeourFeeds in this moment!
"...we need to act, because the future of the internet can’t depend on whether one of the richest men on Earth wakes up on the wrong side of the bed."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
"...we need to act, because the future of the internet can’t depend on whether one of the richest men on Earth wakes up on the wrong side of the bed."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
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We’re fascinated by local digital spaces like neighborhood Nextdoor and Facebook groups. When they’re good, they’re super useful, fun, and interesting.
Here’s some of the ways people use them, according to our research.
Here’s some of the ways people use them, according to our research.
January 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We’re fascinated by local digital spaces like neighborhood Nextdoor and Facebook groups. When they’re good, they’re super useful, fun, and interesting.
Here’s some of the ways people use them, according to our research.
Here’s some of the ways people use them, according to our research.
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In @couldrynick.bsky.social’s latest book “The Space of the World”, he makes a powerful argument that social media companies have been able to do something no king, emperor or dictator has ever been able to do in human history: design the complete social spaces where we live our lives.
🙋🏾♂️🤳 Exploring new concepts for a people-powered internet
An excerpt of Nick Couldry’s new book, The Space of the World
newpublic.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In @couldrynick.bsky.social’s latest book “The Space of the World”, he makes a powerful argument that social media companies have been able to do something no king, emperor or dictator has ever been able to do in human history: design the complete social spaces where we live our lives.
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My New_ Public Co-Director Deepti Doshi and I wrote about #FreeOurFeeds for @technologyreview.com:
“This is an opportunity to bring much more independence, innovation, and local control to our online conversations.”
“This is an opportunity to bring much more independence, innovation, and local control to our online conversations.”
Opinion: Bluesky’s open protocol allows people shape their own experience of social media. That's nothing short of revolutionary—and we need to protect it.
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
www.technologyreview.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My New_ Public Co-Director Deepti Doshi and I wrote about #FreeOurFeeds for @technologyreview.com:
“This is an opportunity to bring much more independence, innovation, and local control to our online conversations.”
“This is an opportunity to bring much more independence, innovation, and local control to our online conversations.”
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I wrote about the push to "billionaire-proof" social media, including plans for a new nonprofit to build out "an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps" running on Bluesky's protocol. Gift link to today's Tech Brief: wapo.st/40fTk4X
Analysis | The push to ‘billionaire-proof’ social media
Nonprofits are spinning up to oversee the tech behind Bluesky and Mastodon.
wapo.st
January 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about the push to "billionaire-proof" social media, including plans for a new nonprofit to build out "an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps" running on Bluesky's protocol. Gift link to today's Tech Brief: wapo.st/40fTk4X
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HULK SMASH PUNY TECH OLIGARCHS
@freeourfeeds.com will build a new, independent foundation to support Bluesky’s underlying technology to be on a pathway to become an open and healthy social media ecosystem that cannot be controlled by any single company or billionaire. #FreeOurFeeds
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
HULK SMASH PUNY TECH OLIGARCHS
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Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction.
January 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction.
Tell me the last time a social network CEO understood the importance of their protocol being governed by an independent foundation.
History in the making. Join us. And thank you, @jay.bsky.team for your inspired leadership.
History in the making. Join us. And thank you, @jay.bsky.team for your inspired leadership.
The Free Our Feeds project is building an independent foundation. More info here:
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tell me the last time a social network CEO understood the importance of their protocol being governed by an independent foundation.
History in the making. Join us. And thank you, @jay.bsky.team for your inspired leadership.
History in the making. Join us. And thank you, @jay.bsky.team for your inspired leadership.
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Exciting to see new, independent projects spin up to decentralize the atproto ecosystem! Building alternative infrastructure is a big step towards giving users more choice and making the network billionaire-proof.
Big news! There's a new project that's raising cash to build out AT Protocol infrastructure that isn't dependent on venture-funded Bluesky, to stimulate the development of new social networks using that infrastructure, and to make the protocol's governance more democratic fortune.com/2025/01/13/m...
Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media
The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.
fortune.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Exciting to see new, independent projects spin up to decentralize the atproto ecosystem! Building alternative infrastructure is a big step towards giving users more choice and making the network billionaire-proof.
So thrilled to be working with folks like
@audreyt.org , @markruffalo.bsky.social , @moonalice.com ,
@alexwinter.com on #FreeOurFeeds
We’ve got a chance here: Bluesky’s open protocol is an incredible opportunity to reimagine social media and take back the internet from fickle billionaires.
@audreyt.org , @markruffalo.bsky.social , @moonalice.com ,
@alexwinter.com on #FreeOurFeeds
We’ve got a chance here: Bluesky’s open protocol is an incredible opportunity to reimagine social media and take back the internet from fickle billionaires.
🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.
#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.
Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.
#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.
Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So thrilled to be working with folks like
@audreyt.org , @markruffalo.bsky.social , @moonalice.com ,
@alexwinter.com on #FreeOurFeeds
We’ve got a chance here: Bluesky’s open protocol is an incredible opportunity to reimagine social media and take back the internet from fickle billionaires.
@audreyt.org , @markruffalo.bsky.social , @moonalice.com ,
@alexwinter.com on #FreeOurFeeds
We’ve got a chance here: Bluesky’s open protocol is an incredible opportunity to reimagine social media and take back the internet from fickle billionaires.
This was a fun one!
Great interview with @deeptidoshi.bsky.social of @newpublic.substack.com on how social media can be more like actual town squares: untangled.substack.com/p/building-h...
Building healthy local communities online & off
A conversation with Deepti Doshi, Co-Director, New_Public
untangled.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM
This was a fun one!
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This platform is already bubbling with people who care about reimagining the social internet into something better.
Here's a starter pack. Reply with more folks we should add!
Here's a starter pack. Reply with more folks we should add!
November 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
This platform is already bubbling with people who care about reimagining the social internet into something better.
Here's a starter pack. Reply with more folks we should add!
Here's a starter pack. Reply with more folks we should add!