🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
Sep 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
Blacksky - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky
We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
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
In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…
Advancing the AT Protocol in Partnership with Eurosky | Igalia
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As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comOn Thursday night, Internet Archive Canada @internetarchiveca.bsky.social just happen to be hosting their regular March Community Gathering. It's a beautiful building a few doors down from @z-space.ca in downtown Vancouver. Sign up to get approved to attend.
Internet Archive Canada March Community Gathering · Luma
luma.comThe open social web is vibrant, dynamic, and full of amazing apps and websites! At the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam, we just gave out the #OpenSocialAwards. We’re excited to introduce you to these impressive, inventive winners. 🧵
Open Social Awards | New_ Public
newpublic.orgA lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz's Acorn and what @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy is doing with communities 👀
Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
bonfirenetworks.orgWe implemented the new permissioned spaces spec. This is a step in the direction for making Blacksky-only posts work for our users in any app It is also a strong signal to our Acorn customers that their access-control gated community feeds aren't proprietary to Blacksky and work even if they leave
Bulleted App
Bulleted just did its third, yes 3, cross-PDS permissioned-data read with a private space on @ngerakines.me's atproto-pds, opened by an account on @rude1.blacksky.team's @blackskyweb.xyz rsky!
