I was going to go for a walk, but @rude1.blacksky.team nerd-sniped me into writing this, instead. I'm not upset, though. It turns out collective governance questions are a great lens for grounding/scrupling how we might do on-protocol collective governance.
User Intents as Living Data — A Descriptive Meta-Framework
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Blacksky People’s Assembly – a space for public deliberation and collective decision-making.
Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media
More notes on Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism on decentralized social networks
Part 3 of a series. See If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next and Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere for previous installments and a reading list. "Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning
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.
Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
A few weeks ago I wrote How decentralized is Bluesky really?, a blogpost which received far more attention than I expected on the fediverse and Bluesky both. Thankfully, the blogpost was received well generally, including by Bluesky's team. Bryan Newbold, core Bluesky engineer, wrote a thoughtful response article: Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization, which I consider worth reading.
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process. If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.
Here’s @rude1.blacksky.team, Founder and CEO of @blackskyweb.xyz and Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards. Blacksky is a beacon of choice, community, and agency in a bleak social media landscape. They’re building the tools they need and sharing them with everyone.
This is probably one of the most important issues in terms of labor, tech, UX, etc that the Atmosphere needs to solve (decentralized moderation). I would invite people to pay attention to what the @blackskyweb.xyz team and its community are doing and take notes.
Okay, who's going to write a response to this... @eikofried.bsky.social @ajshackman.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social @nicolecrust.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41398-026-03943-5
Excited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
media.mit.eduGroundings from @rude1.blacksky.team in #AtmosphereConf - on the importance of leaving the campus and going to where the people are - real knowledge is sitting down together to reason preach brother!
In the words of @rude1.blacksky.team - 'promises made, promises kept'. For those who are new to Blacksky, or still want to know who we are, why we have our own app, or what makes us different than Bluesky - we've spelled it all out here. blackskyweb.xyz/blacksky-is-not-just-another-…
Blacksky Isn't Just Another Bluesky. Here's the Difference.
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since our public beta launch many have asked - what is Blacksky and how is it different from Bluesky? here’s the short answer. we’ll share more in a longer article this week 🙏
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
new: you can now start a voluntary, sliding scale subscription or one-off tip to support @blackskyweb.xyz from directly in our app. 💸 Live now at blacksky.community/support Built by @rishkebab.blacksky.team
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
I single-handedly run all the same technology that Bluesky, the ~40 person, $136M company does. My @blackskyweb.xyz team does full-stack content-moderation, ships products core to our mission + partners with orgs so we can be a long-term sustainable business If you rely on us pls pay a subscription
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new: Blacksky People’s Assembly conversations display embedded inside posts on blacksky.community In our next conversation, you’ll be able to vote on People's Assembly topics while scrolling the feed and without leaving our app. 🗳️
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Our next @blackskyweb.xyz People's Assembly will have you login with your atproto account to participate. On login we'll match your handle/email/DID to our subscribers, open source supporters and check for Blacksky membership (in feed or blacksky.app) Badge + profile will show next to statements.
Organizing
Governance, collaboration, how to work together without being awful.
Conflict Systems
Spaces as Layers - Nick's Blog
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Axioms for Organizers by Fred Ross, Sr. | Fred Ross, Sr.
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
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