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Rudy Fraser

Blacksky Anniversary Graphic in Pen & Pixel style
Rudy Fraser

Anniversary

A year ago, an investor asked what I'd build if I had the freedom. This is the answer: blacksky.cash for private payments and blacksky.tech for one-click infrastructure. We're just getting started.

decentralized tools for creating safe, indepdendent online spaces
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🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

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Infrastructure for Interdependence

Blacksky Algorithms builds infrastructure for social groups to control how they show up online: how their feeds work, how harm is addressed, and how costs are covered.

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An internet of many autonomous communities

Making communities a true part of the protocol will encourage others to build things for those communities, start new communities, and hopefully foster models for self-sustainability.

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What I’m learning is n----s don’t like Blacksky and I’m fine with it, I’ll push the line with it

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The Moderation article

From the very beginning, the internet was antiblack.

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Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space (Part 3)

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. - Black Panther Party 10 Point Program

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Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space (Part 1)

I felt too young, and too cool, and too Black to be on Bluesky.