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📻🎙️🛜 As public broadcasting faces cuts, KQED leans into digital community building
A Bay Area radio station cracks the code on digital conversation (and shares their playbook)
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Francesca Fenzi
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Josh Kramer
🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
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BlogTherapy
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Josh Kramer
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🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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Rudy Fraser
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Josh Kramer
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The Algorithm Next Door
How local digital platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook are fraying the fabric of neighborhood trust — and what we can build instead.
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🗣️➡️👯‍♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship
Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki
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Madison Karas
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Josh Kramer
🐦💙 He coded Twitter. Now he’s building tech for New_ Public
A Q&A with Blaine Cook, our new Principal Software Engineer for Local
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Blaine Cook
 and 
Josh Kramer
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🇺🇸🗽🎆 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
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Deepti Doshi
🎮🕹️⌨️ Fortnite squads, Discord servers, and channels of deep connection
Sijal Nasralla takes us beyond likes and shares toward something that feels more like community
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PitaBreadFace
 and 
Josh Kramer
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🇹🇿 ✍️ How the “Swahili Wikileaks” built trust by breaking Big Tech's playbook
A case study on JamiiAfrica, a social platform where posts save lives — and get government results
 • 
Madeline Earp
 and 
Josh Kramer
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