Nikhil Pahwa

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Mere yaar patang udaya kar. Kat jaye toh gham na kha

Founder@medianama
FellowshipsTED, Asia21 Leaders
Twitterhttps://www.twitter.com/nixxin

A bit concerned that Mastodon might end up centralising at mastodon.social . Most new sign-ups I'm seeing are there.

The need to add a suffix address for people on "other instances" adds friction, which means network effects will lead people towards the more popular instance eventually.

What do you think @stux ?

2 page version of my submission to DoT on India's draft Telecom Bill, which looks to license everything online in India, and create a surveillance state. In case you wish to send your views, can refer to this doc. Feel free to counter my views if you disagree with them
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4oh6U0qhkr8ucItJSTJLM81qgu17vAZKnqY3RWArDE/edit
Telecom Bill Submission

To, Sh. Naveen Kumar, Joint Secretary - Telecom, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Sanchar Bhawan 20, Ashoka Road, New Delhi 110001. [email protected] Subject: My submission on Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022 Dear Sir, Please make this submission for the...

Google Docs
In case anyone wants to copy from this
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tpwALuL0j15dIy1U5H90EWrpqo7v7iv6Z-pwdzs9wUE/edit?usp=drivesdk
I think I'll create a one or two page version tomorrow for people to copy from
MediaNama Submission / Telecom Bill 2022

To, Sh. Naveen Kumar, Joint Secretary - Telecom, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Sanchar Bhawan 20, Ashoka Road, New Delhi 110001. [email protected] Subject: MediaNama’s submission on Telecommunications Bill 2022 I’m writing on behalf of MediaNama, an online pu...

Google Docs
What the what is this? https://wp.me/pdCmnI-ez
On Operation The Wire; a lesson for Indian Journalism; and two bits of shitposting

Superhumans' Archive of Cringetopia

Suggesting that those of us who have figured out Mastodon enough to follow friends, fellow seekers, colleagues and other interesting people should do a post introducing them so that others can find them too.

I suggest these be hashtagged #TrunkCalls, unless something else exists?

Here’s 10 to start off with, comrades from the blogging era.
@nilanjanaroy
@samitbasu
@MitaliSaran
@rahulbhatia
@nixxin
@Nadika
@Calamur
@Reddymadhavan
@sharanyamanivannan
@anniezaidi
@sridala

Your turn.

More interesting conversations on Mastodon timeline than twitter right now. Its also about the right environment. Twitter would be better if it junked algorithmic prioritisation, imo.

#introduction

Hello there!

I'm currently a Creative Director (Non-Fiction) at India's largest podcasting network: IVM Podcasts

In the past, i have dabbled with writing speeches for Members of Parliament, doing legislative research, journalism, hosting YouTube shows on civic education and have written a book.

I make podcasts now and I'm trying to grow my personal YouTube presence as well.

Why mastodon and why not reddit? From an end user perspective, not from a decentralisation philosophical perspective
Thinking about finally finally finally visiting Bangalore next week. How's the weather? (Apart from great)
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CITP Launches the Digital Witness Lab Research Hub to Help Journalists Track Bad Actors on Platforms Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is excited to announce the launch of the Digital Witness Lab — an innovative research laboratory where engineers will design software and hardware tools to track the inner workings of social […]

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