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A Safer Internet: Mitigating Anti-Blackness and Digital Misogynoir on a Decentralized Network
The Global Online Safety Conference isn’t where experts talk about communities. It’s where communities are the experts. For three days, 500+ leaders from six continents will gather to share what’s actually working on the ground and build relationships to achieve more together.
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
One of the platform’s most prominent feeds, Blacksky, which draws more than three hundred thousand users a month, offers a tool to identify and block racism and misogynoir ... [Rudy] told me 'If anyone uses a slur ... in a username, bio, in a post—we can get automatically alerted and take action.'
Blue Skies Ahead: Social Media’s Quiet User Revolution
BlackSky: A community-focused platform that offers moderation and support that makes social media a safer place for Black users, including those migrating from the online community known as Black Twitter.
A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people
BlackSky founder Rudy Fraser hit an emotional note on Saturday when talking about using ATProto to build communities. His project today offers moderation and support that makes social media a safer place for Black users, including those migrating from the online community known as Black Twitter. Eventually, BlackSky may run on all of its own ATProto-based infrastructure and offer its own consumer-facing client.
Bluesky’s Radical Idea: Let Users Set the Rules of Social Media
For instance, Blacksky was founded by one of Bluesky’s early adopters as a feed for Black users, but it has evolved into its own community with moderation standards and 350,000 monthly active visitors, all on the AT Protocol.
Podcast: Rudy Fraser on Building Blacksky and the Future of Middleware
In this episode, you’ll hear a discussion with one entrepreneur building middleware for Bluesky: Rudy Fraser, the founder of Blacksky Algorithms and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Rudy Fraser – BlackSky – Next Generation of Social Media
This week we're talking to Rudy Fraser, the developer behind BlackSky, a community he carved out of BlueSky. Using custom feeds, labelers and everything the platform has to offer, BlackSky offers a safe space for Black communities to share their stories and connect. In the process he's dealt with funding, scaling, and building out his own tools on top of ATProto, the tech behind BlueSky.