When Black Threads wants a feature, they have to ask Meta and hope for the best. Meta won't build it unless other communities need it, too. That's not true here. When @blackskyweb.xyz needed community-only posts, they didn't have to ask anyone. They just built it bc the community needed it. 2/🧵
Sep 2, 2026 at 6:25 PM
“No One’s Coming to Save Us. Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet” -Rudy Fraser, Blacksky
Meta is limiting how much political content users see. Here's how to opt out of that
Meta is now limiting the amount of political content it recommends to Instagram and Threads users. Here's why it made the change — and how to opt out of it.
Metaverse Standards Forum Introduces Sneeze, the World's First Open Metaverse Browser Engine
Sneeze enables organizations to deliver spatial services without walled gardens or custom apps, unlocking the future of spatial computing for AI, robotics, and humans.
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Good. Meta still sucks. Remember that they tried this, and will probably try something similar soon.
Reece
BREAKING NEWS: Meta rolls back controversial feature that let anyone tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likeness—without their knowledge or active consent. @wired.com
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.
It's important to understand: social networks are not meant to be one-size-fits all! When Meta (which makes Threads, as well as Facebook and Instagram) creates platforms that have hundreds of millions of users, they do things like enable genocides, where tens of thousands of innocent people die.
Christopher Mims
So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
Bluesky’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.
Based on the People's Assembly feedback we are sharing 3 proposals for Blacksky-Only Posts. The blog contains 3 possible options and a link to vote on what you feel is best! Let's make this decision together and get Blacksky-Only posts launched! blackskyweb.xyz/moderation-on-blacksky-only-p…
Moderation on Blacksky-Only Posts: A Community Proposal
blackskyweb.xyzWe 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!
blacksky.community now determines trending topics for our app based on conversations within Blacksky’s community of users.
Yeah I don’t totally understand why “just share a community lexicon” is not resonating for people. Can folks in this thread give feedback? discourse.atprotocol.community/t/shared-lexicons-messaging/6…
@pfrazee.com question. is there a technical reason why social-app forks are not able to quickly launch native apps? We have blacksky and mu and witchsky, yet no alternative social-app native apps. @rude1.blacksky.team I recall you putting out a request for development contributions to put out an app
blacksky.community now determines trending topics for our app based on conversations within Blacksky’s community of users.
A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?
A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?
