🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)

The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

Sep 7 • 

Alex @ BlogTherapy

 and 

Josh Kramer

44

August 2025

🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Aug 24 • 

Rudy Fraser

 and 

Josh Kramer

40

10

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.

Published on After Babel • Aug 10

July 2025

🗣️➡️👯‍♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship

Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki

Jul 27 • 

Madison Karas

 and 

Josh Kramer

10

🐦💙 He coded Twitter. Now he’s building tech for New_ Public

A Q&A with Blaine Cook, our new Principal Software Engineer for Local

Jul 13 • 

Blaine Cook

 and 

Josh Kramer

33

4

June 2025

🇺🇸🗽🎆 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

Jun 29 • 

Deepti Doshi

16

🎮🕹️⌨️ Fortnite squads, Discord servers, and channels of deep connection

Sijal Nasralla takes us beyond likes and shares toward something that feels more like community

Jun 15 • 

PitaBreadFace

 and 

Josh Kramer

13

2

🇹🇿 ✍️ 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

Jun 1 • 

Madeline Earp

 and 

Josh Kramer

17

1

May 2025

🎁 🔁 The unexpected gift economies thriving online

Seeking digital inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

May 18 • 

Kelly Pendergrast

, 

Anna Pendergrast

, and 

Josh Kramer

21

4

🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities

We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

May 4 • 

Sam Liebeskind

 and 

Josh Kramer

45

5

April 2025

🔨🧱 Building the internet we deserve: Introducing our new Founder in Residence

How Trei Brundrett bridges community values and digital innovation

Apr 20 • 

Trei Brundrett

 and 

Josh Kramer

13

2

🗣️🗯️ Real conversations about tech, trust, and community

Where do you stand? Join complex debates on fact-checking, local connection, and platform control

Apr 13 • 

Josh Kramer

5