Your community deserves its own platform.
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
Blacksky As a Service: a First Look at Acorn - AT Protocol
Rishi Balakrishnan joins to talk about the work that went into building Acorn, Blacksky's new platform for creating moderated communities on atproto — and why the landing page never mentions a PDS.
Composable Trust, Part 1: Communities Without Credible Exit - Eclectic Corvine Muses
We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin
Social Platform Directory
We are mapping all the social platforms in Europe. This directory is growing every day based on input from people all around Europe. It is a collective piece of work. The platforms mapped are here because someone told us about their existence or directed us to a list, where they were mentioned. All are mapped as precisely as possible based on publicly available information. Is there a platform we should know about, or some information that should be adjusted? Let us know.
We Needn't Have a One True Platform - Aaron Ross Powell
On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.
To people that donate to OSS, what platform do you prefer to use to donate?
40 votes, 27 comments. I am asking since I've only setup GitHub Sponsors for my project, but I feel like some people might not want to use that and I…
Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?
Platform Cooperativism Consortium | A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comWhat if you could leave a social platform without leaving your community? @brittanyellich.com explains how the AT Protocol lets you own your identity, your data, and your social graph, opening the door to a more open, portable, and developer-friendly web. 🌐 youtu.be/_ZrChpf8FZ8
One of our most exciting releases since the founding of Blacksky. Multi-community support. acorn.blacksky.community
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Your community deserves its own platform. acorn.blacksky.community
Bluesky is scared to commit to making a universal app that works with any atproto lexicon. I am not. And am pretty committed to our social-app fork being able to work with more and more content types (short video, fintech, blogs, music, etc.) Acorn customers get this for their communities too.
Richard Ferro, MD MSc
Also, will any platforms using acorn have access to these integrations as well?
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
Ditch Platforms
Guides, stories, and reasons to leave platforms in favor of protocols
The Music Industry is Broken
Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
How to ACTUALLY Quit Spotify.
Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
EFF is Leaving X
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
