{"podcast":{"title":"Revolution.Social","slug":"revolution-social-7409931","podcast_index_feed_id":7409931,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11425154c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://revolution.social/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46229419/49a2b074e1d12f41.jpg","author":"Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath","episode_count":49,"summary":"A podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. Revolution.Social is hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee and hired Jack Dorsey. In weekly interviews, Rabble will interview thought leaders, technologists, academics, and more about the need for a new social media \"bill of rights.\" Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections from corporate control and surveillance capitalism. This is the start of a conversation about what developers are building, how they're building it, and what consumers need to be asking for. Guests will include Jack Dorsey (former CEO & co-founder of Twitter); Kara Swisher (host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of Pivot); Cory Doctorow (science fiction author & former editor of Boing Boing); and Taylor Lorenz (founder of User Mag, host of Power User).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:20:23.930135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931"},"episode":{"title":"Chris Messina on Hashtags, Google+ & the Unintended Consequences of Building Social Media","slug":"chris-messina-on-hashtags-google-the-unintended-consequences-of-building-social-media","published_at":"2025-08-28T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/chris-messina-on-hashtags-google-the-unintended-consequences-of-building-social-media","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/994987ca2dc66cc108d63a15465a8228510e34f669ad2029a4c28d4e15c19eaf/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyZDA0ZDk4NC1mM2M2LTRkZWUtOWQxZS0zNGVmNTAwMjZhN2UiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI1ZGI0ZGViNy1lMjY0LTRiOTItOTlhZS01NzdlNDNiNjRlZWUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTAyNjQ4Y2IwZGFmNjIxOWMxYjY1OTQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvaW1wb3J0cy9wb2RjYXN0cy81ZGI0ZGViNy1lMjY0LTRiOTItOTlhZS01NzdlNDNiNjRlZWUvZXBpc29kZXMvMmQwNGQ5ODQtZjNjNi00ZGVlLTlkMWUtMzRlZjUwMDI2YTdlL05PVERJODAzMDMzMjUzOC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/994987ca2dc66cc108d63a15465a8228510e34f669ad2029a4c28d4e15c19eaf/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyZDA0ZDk4NC1mM2M2LTRkZWUtOWQxZS0zNGVmNTAwMjZhN2UiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI1ZGI0ZGViNy1lMjY0LTRiOTItOTlhZS01NzdlNDNiNjRlZWUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTAyNjQ4Y2IwZGFmNjIxOWMxYjY1OTQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvaW1wb3J0cy9wb2RjYXN0cy81ZGI0ZGViNy1lMjY0LTRiOTItOTlhZS01NzdlNDNiNjRlZWUvZXBpc29kZXMvMmQwNGQ5ODQtZjNjNi00ZGVlLTlkMWUtMzRlZjUwMDI2YTdlL05PVERJODAzMDMzMjUzOC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","summary":"Chris Messina is best known for co-founding BarCamp and giving Web 2.0 the hashtag. Now on Revolution.Social, he joins Rabble to talk about the bigger picture of what has gone right, and wrong, with social media. In this episode, he and Rabble unpack why Google+ failed, the unintended consequences of hashtags, and how algorithms have reshaped our digital lives. They also discuss why defending authentic human connection may be the most urgent challenge for the next generation on the internet. Follow Rabble: ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode was produced and edited by Eric Johnson from ⁠⁠⁠LightningPod.fm⁠⁠⁠, and executive produced by Alice Chan from ⁠⁠⁠Flock Marketing⁠⁠⁠. To learn more about Rabble’s social media bill of rights, and sign up for our newsletter, visit ⁠⁠⁠https://revolution.social/","meta_description":"Chris Messina is best known for co-founding BarCamp and giving Web 2.0 the hashtag. Now on Revolution.Social, he joins Rabble to talk about the bigger pic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3939,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolution-social-7409931/episodes/chris-messina-on-hashtags-google-the-unintended-consequences-of-building-social-media/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/chris-messina-on-hashtags-google-the-unintended-consequences-of-building-social-media.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}