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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.)

Captchas in the Blacksky app

Boom. Now you need a Physics degree to sign up for an account.

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

Rudy's Theory of Revolution Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001

I spoke with @eclecticcapital.bsky.social about collective intelligence, state surveillance & violence, the legacy of Black anarchism in America, the relationship between values and technical architecture, the role of capital in revolution & more.

Natalie also compiled a great glossary + resources!

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

- App view goes live next week (interact with members even if bsky has them banned); Documentation about what an app view is will follow
- 2 proposals for community vote will follow: peer based, communal moderation vs. machine-learning image classification moderation

Then Blacksky-only posts drop

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

I told my team when you speak publicly about Blacksky, don't even mention Bluesky or atproto. It's just us. It's our story.

I don't bring up Tim Berners Lee every time I make a web app.

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.

no invite code needed anymore! you should be good to just directly migrate

the long term vision of community digital gardens is super appealing, and i think my project is spiritually aligned with roomy but is a little more public / lives on the feed

yes! i've read the blog before and i'm a big fan, and was thinking through using vcs / tangled so that users can propose edits to these docs and the authors can approve them

@standard.site blog posts in the microblog feed?

The @blackskyweb.xyz team is literally giving us all the features we've been asking for all at once 🔥