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.
BlackSky Algorithms - Tektite Migration Service
Migrate your ATProto account to BlackSky PDS - A decentralized tool for creating safe, independent online spaces.
BlackSky Algorithms - Tektite Migration Service
Migrate your ATProto account to BlackSky PDS - A decentralized tool for creating safe, independent online spaces.
Blacksky PDS
NO MORE INVITES TO THE COOKOUT. AT Protocol Personal Data Server operated by Blacksky Algorithms.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky - Stuff Rob Wrote
I've been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for abo...
Introduction | Blacksky Documentation
Blacksky Algorithms builds open-source, community-driven infrastructure for decentralized social media. Our mission is to empower communities with tools for safety, governance, and control over their online spaces. This documentation is designed to help new users understand what Blacksky offers and how to get started with our feeds and moderation services.
Anniversary
Blacksky Algorithms turns one. Announcing blacksky.cash for private payments and blacksky.tech for one-click server hosting on AT Protocol. Launching 2026.
Making Roomy More ATProto-Native - Zicklag's Leaflets
We've said Roomy's server was like a PDS, but what if it actually was a PDS?
Blacksky
Blacksky is a social network. It is developed and maintained by Blacksky Algorithms. The project provides curated feeds and moderation tools to support Black social media users, many of whom previously used Black Twitter.
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.
Adversarial ATProto PDS Migration | Blog
An ATProto account lives on a Personal Data Server (PDS), and that service needs to be hosted somewhere by someone. There are a lot of options here, like a Raspberry Pi in your closet, a rented VPS in a datacentre, or a batteries-included service like bsky.social.
One of our most exciting releases since the founding of Blacksky. Multi-community support. acorn.blacksky.community
rish
Your community deserves its own platform. acorn.blacksky.community
Blacksky was one of the 1st PDSs to allow open sign ups We are also now the largest PDS deployment that doesn't run any of bsky's code Sorry for the turbulence. It was the one-time price to pay for being able to build features like private accounts or sign-in via phone number w/o waiting on Bluesky
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
I'm posting again this way due to possible settings people might have: If you are interest in what's going on with Blacksky as far as Atproto goes but have been blocked by anyone in the thread, you might find this useful for reading purposes. skythread.mackuba.eu?author=rude1.blacksky.team&po…
Skythread
skythread.mackuba.euI love to see when a *.host.bsky.network (mushroom PDS) user is informed in a nice, polite way about how the AT Protocol works and why it's awesome.
