Rudy wants revolution.

Get to voting y'all

Round two of voting!!

Let's vote and get another step closer to Blacksky-only posts, y'all!!

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Yet another contribution towards a hopeful future and more hopeful present. I love us ✨

I enjoyed reading the proposals and responding.

My vote is a hybrid model.

Strictly machine learning is problematic, but having been in the trenches with building indie moderation systems, there are real issue with people only moderation at scale.

It's going to be a lil crunchy figuring out actual application, but that's just the process.

The Blacksky skyline is my favorite corner of the Internet. This vote is a big deal! Please read through the proposal and vote. Full transparency I’m currently a volunteer moderator and that human only option ain’t it in my opinion. Love yall 🫶🏾

I'm really REALLY impressed by how quickly user concerns are addressed, up to and including putting the vote behind a gate once the concern was raised by community members. @rude1.blacksky.team yall fr did that tysm

Peer mods alongside T&S

Our subscribers directly help pay our in-house moderation team opencollective.com/blacksky/tra...

Make it do what it do!

Hey community!

Hope you’re able to let your voice be heard again on this important topic. ❤️

That's about the same annual cost as the Hachyderm.io mastodon server, based on their published financial reports

Help us help you get Blacksky-only posts in a values aligned way 🗳️

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

Moderation on Blacksky-Only Posts: A Community Proposal Our team has explored several ways to make permissioned posts possible. Now we’re bringing the decision back to the community. Below are three approaches to moderation: a machine-learning system that ...

Based on the People's Assembly feedback we are sharing 3 proposals for Blacksky-Only Posts. The blog contains 3 possible options and a link to vote on what you feel is best! Let's make this decision together and get Blacksky-Only posts launched!

blackskyweb.xyz/moderation-o...

what content moderation does to a man

PDS is 10K active accounts after killing about 20K bots
Feed is 250K MAU
no numbers on @moderation.blacksky.app users

probably get more app users by just having an iOS and Android app that can send push notifications.

It's already React Native/Expo (fork of the Bluesky social app) so it compiles natively to both platforms. The work is mostly build config, advising on app store submission, and platform-specific polish (push notifications, deep links, etc.)

quotes disabled but yes, someone could make @xblock.aendra.dev but for videos

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

*AFTER*? What else will the public have to beta test as we finally understand that it's humans *alongside* machines, just like every tool in history.

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/a...

Not sure yet but our app has ~800 DAU right now and that's negligible

obviously eager to see how things scale

More controversy. Will assume this means "Rap Artist".
In an unordered list:
- Hov
- 50
- Kendrick
- Future (so fight me, so fight me, okay then.)
- Vince Staples

I'm answering these quickly but I am suggesting both

block trackers, use a vpn, wipe your data from the net, etc.

I think people overuse terms like 'censorship' and 'policing' when talking about online spaces. I think there have to be other ways to protect kids than doxxing the entire internet. I also think it's weird to ban kids outright from using the internet.

Seems like overcorrection all around.

I tell people I'd rather swallow blood than swallow my pride
same goes for our brand of ethics, transparency, and accountability.

I'd rather the company die 100 times than change that. But we're also not the bookclub types.

Most important thing with us is to really get in the field with us.

somehow knew This would be the controversial take

I'm a product of my environment, for better and worse

Something I believe in from an InfoCivics perspective
don't think it'd ever move the needle on adoption so it wasn't missed

We're getting ready for @sxsw.com!

@rabble.nz will be joined by @bridgettodd.bsky.social and @rude1.blacksky.team for an hour-long conversation about how creators can claim back agency and control from social media platforms.

📅 Saturday, March 14th at 2:30pm at the Austin Marriott Downtown