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.
Jun 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
“No One’s Coming to Save Us. Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet” -Rudy Fraser, Blacksky
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.
Blacksky Moderation (@moderation.blacksky.app)
Building the intercommunal net This account is a mod service for Blacksky, subscribe to use our filters Main account: @blackskyweb.xyz Appeals: https://blackskyweb.xyz/about/support/moderation-appeal/
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.
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revolution.social with @rabble
This is probably one of the most important issues in terms of labor, tech, UX, etc that the Atmosphere needs to solve (decentralized moderation). I would invite people to pay attention to what the @blackskyweb.xyz team and its community are doing and take notes.
Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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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. 🗳️
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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.
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@rude1.blacksky.team
Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂ CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places [ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ] @mozilla.org Fellow 🦊 prev. @harvard.edu Fellow 🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ] Board @pactcollective.xyz TSC @lexicon.community Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
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
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.
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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
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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
Who is @jcsalterego.bsky.social? 125K followers. 80K+ posts. Builds core Atmosphere infrastructure. Communicates almost entirely in soup jokes. One of the most interesting accounts on Bluesky.
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/coming-off-the-ben…
