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blacksky community please check out the blog post and vote! we need your input

what content moderation does to a man

Something in the works rn and will be announced this week(?)

Don't hold me to it, I'm not the one in charge.

We're interested in helping other communities get set up in the same way we are. In team conversations we talk about it like designing a decentralized Reddit from first principles

So if you have an invested community we'd love to be the tech partners 🙂. Til then we have myatproto.social et al

404 media, lever news, the markup, and hellgate nyc are some of the few publications i trust (and pay for) anymore

the moment for interoperable tools for thought is here!

When we get Blacksky-only posts, we will have the best curation tools in the entire internet

To improve transparency and hopefully reduce confusion we have added a "Backfill in progress" badge to account profiles.

The badge shows if there's a big enough difference between someones follow/post counts according to Blacksky vs. the rest of the ATmosphere (Bluesky, Microcosm, etc.)

My first op-ed got picked up by essence

www.essence.com/news/ai-raci...

just sent you one!

Doc explaining current appview features coming today.

Cartoon drawing of a smiling computer screen

SXSW is next week!
If you're in Austin be sure to attend the conversation between @rabble.nz @bridgettodd.bsky.social and our own @rude1.blacksky.team discussing how decentralization can empower creators and open opportunities for sustainable social communities
RSVP schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP114...

Blacksky Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

The blacksky.community web application now uses our own API servers to load posts, timelines and profiles.

When data is missing (accounts on the edges of the network, outside of our primary community, etc) we leverage @microcosm.blue

incredible work y'all congrats!!

announcing our €3,8M seed round and more on what's next

today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.

read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

Rudy's Theory of Revolution - Eclecticisms Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001 - Interview with Rudy Fraser of Blacksky

Everyone on the team is brilliant. @rude1.blacksky.team

eclecticisms.leaflet.pub/3mfu4f2hz7c2x

glad you like it! alongside organizers and activists, the hope is that eventually it enables more distributed forms of journalism and info gathering too … this ecosystem seems built to support something like that

Living Documents on the Feed What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?

I'm reading @rishkebab.blacksky.team discussing the challenge of getting long-form consumption for activists and organisers into a feed experience. It referenced this 'highlight quote and share' feature with @leaflet.pub ... so I'm testing it out.

8 Shield. A Safer Internet: Mitigating Anti-Blackness and Digital Misogynoir on a Decentralized Network 口 Wednesday, March 11, 2026 3:00 PM EST 7:00 PM GMT KáLyn Coghill Community Safety and Support Steward Blacksky Algorithms # shieldthefuture.com GLOBAL ONLINE SAFETY CONFERENCE

Join our very own @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team for SHIELD's Global Online Safety conference on March 11 where they'll be discussing how their work keeping our Blacksky community safe is making for a safer internet.

shieldthefuture.com/global-onlin...

time to BUILD 🚧

LOVE this vision, and how @semble.so's upcoming connections feature helps to build towards this. Open, accretive collective sensemaking FTW!! Seize the means of sensemaking!!

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and a tub of lassi

Mothlamp Problems - Unfolding Diagrams just a little bit closer to the light and I'll have it solved

“But I think much more importantly, dreaming big is a muscle. You have to exercise it from time to time. Each time I come up with a grand vision and sink dozens to hundreds of hours into it, only to walk away unfinished, I learn a bit more about how to make a dream become real.” @notjack.space

currently justifying a messy room as enriching for my cat

*returns once again to Parable of the Sower to see how Lauren handled social collapse*

I think we have a chance at using atproto to build the cozy web - permissioned spaces, but semi-porous.

Lots of people wanting proof-of-human in different ways, which in many cases flips over to aggressive KYC. But I understand the motivation.