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.

Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)

SCOOP: #WSocial is doctoring metrics on its homepage, inflating the number of comments on posts by prominent people on its network. I suppose a more accurate tagline for them should be "Trust your feed?" My article about it: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data" 🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/ #blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms #TrustYourFeed

Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism - PressThink

The transparency movement has finally come of age. Power has shifted to the users. Their trust has to be earned in different ways now.

Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report - Bluesky

Throughout 2025, our Trust & Safety work was guided by the premise that social media should serve the people using it. Our transparency report provides data and details about those investments, and the progress we made this year.

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[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…

overreacted

A blog by Dan Abramov

it's my following and i want it my way! - matt's not blog

a late response to the social graph talk from last week

How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter

Last Friday I welcomed two "steps in the right direction" from W Social. But timing is everything.

How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter

Last Friday I welcomed two "steps in the right direction" from W Social. But timing is everything.

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

OpenAI published a blog post emphasizing its commitment to safety and harm mitigation. Its promises read as proactive — but are anything but.

New Paradigms in Trust and Safety: Navigating Defederation on Decentralized Social Media Platforms

Defederation on decentralized social media offers new possibilities for online governance. Experts consider how it can be used responsibly, in a way that balances speech and safety.

Trust and Faith in Our Web

I’m not Brennan, but I’m very interested in decentralization and a fan of AtProto specifically, so I’d like to weigh in. First I should mention I’ve personally never been able to get into microblogging, so I haven’t touched bluesky myself, despite having an account for ATProto reasons. But I agree it’s concerning that the company chooses to continue to host the content of harmful individuals and calling that act “neutral”. I’m certainly against the idea of the “marketplace of ideas” as it’s cle...