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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Marisa
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 🙏
Aug 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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.
Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs
Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in account usernames. Many users — particularly Black users — are frustrated that Bluesky hasn’t apologized for allowing racial slurs to slip through its moderation tools even though they violate the platform’s community guidelines. “Our community guidelines published yesterday reflect our values for a healthy community, and we’re working on becoming better stewards every day,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said in a post on Saturday.
Blacksky
Blacksky is a social network. It is developed and maintained by Blacksky Algorithms. The project provides curated feeds and moderation tools to support Black social media users, many of whom previously used Black Twitter.
For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter | TechCrunch
If Bluesky wants to be a genuine rival to Twitter, it needs to protect sex workers and its Black community.
jimray.bsky.team/bsky-conversation
Add Bluesky replies, quotes, and reposts to any web page. Handy for adding a comments section anywhere.
jimray.bsky.team/bsky-conversation
Add Bluesky replies, quotes, and reposts to any web page. Handy for adding a comments section anywhere.
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.
"i don't understand where the trust boundaries are, or how they are governed" - @rude1.blacksky.team with a great framing that puts a person at the center
Bluesky is not a social network or a product or a service, it is fundamentally a promise - a promise that you can decide — with others in your social geography — where you want to be in the digital world, and you don’t have to lose all of the bits that represent you in the process.
Aaron Ross Powell
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
Rudy Fraser
@rude1.blacksky.team
building online communities governed by users Founder: - @blackskyweb.xyz ⁂ - blacksky.community - rsky 🦀 github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky Fellow @mozilla.org @harvard.edu
Rudy Fraser
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
Rudy Fraser
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
One of our most exciting releases since the founding of Blacksky. Multi-community support. acorn.blacksky.community
rish
Your community deserves its own platform. acorn.blacksky.community
The Blacksky team is working on a zine. We grew to where we are through word of mouth and along existing networks. That’s this, but offline. It’s important to me that the bleeding edge tech we’re working on is made legible to as many people as possible. What do you think we should include?
