A 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.orgJul 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together
Groups and topics, community rules and decision-making, events, organisation profiles, federated comments, custom themes: built with the communities who needed them, ready to use as-is, or to shape into a flavour of your community's own.
Communal Bonfires — Open Indie
Online community platforms are assembly-kits for large, communal bonfires, designed to draw people towards the light and into the warm to...
A space to converse and connect.
An X/Twitter Spaces alternative for Bluesky and the open web. Creating good vibes in the friendly skies.
Blacksky Isn't Just Another Bluesky. Here's the Difference.
Blacksky is built on the same open social network as Bluesky and many other social apps. However, we're building ours with a different purpose, different priorities, and a different vision for online communities. Here's what sets us apart.
Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell
Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.
etheirys.social - get your community handle for Bluesky
get your own etheirys.social handle
Universal profiles on the open social web
One of the discussions we had during the community day ahead of Eurosky was about this notion of interchangeable user profiles in the Atmosphere / Open Social Web. @laurenshof.online even recorded the entire conversation so maybe there’s a transcript I could clean up for us? Anyhow, here’s the gist of it. Deferred profile Right now on roomy.space if you sign up with your existing Bluesky account, we will defer to that Bluesky profile for your profile in Roomy as well, essentially recognizing t...
📣 I've started working on an Atmosphere alternative to Facebook Pages, targeted at local, non tech savvy communities. It's called @gravita.social - the force that unites us.
Gravita — Give your community a home on the open web
gravita.socialHere’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.
@blackskyweb.xyz is building an interconnected suite of products reshaping how people connect, participate, organize, and transact online. We’re looking for a Head of Design to lead and shape how our products and brands look, feel, and work. please circulate widely. blackskyweb.xyz/about/jobs/head-of-design/
Head of Design
blackskyweb.xyzOne 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
Overlapping context-specific communities, on a whole spectrum of public commons to cozy private spaces, all interoperable in a global network — yeahhhh we've got a big opportunity here!
Everyone Fled the Feed for the Group Chat.
inputs-outputs.leaflet.pubWe're launching a community server on Discord! It's a space for folks who contribute, build on, or use Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and a place for folks to support each other through any issues they may run into. That said, we know Discord isn't everyone's ideal choice - it's not ours either... 1/🧵
Join the A New Social Discord Server!
discord.ggBluesky’s statement deriding Threads users as “guinea pigs” is not representative of Blacksky Algorithms, the atproto ecosystem or the open social web more broadly. Communities form around communication networks. And communities should never be trolled for whatever tool helps them find each other.
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
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. 🗳️
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
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.
