Memo

Blacksky’s foundation is built on self-governance and self-determination. We took learnings from Black and Brown revolutionaries with our belief that everyone has the ability and the self-efficacy to do the things that are best for their community, but we also realize that that ability is something that is not seen as a right that everyone should be able to experience. Due to this, we sought out to create a solution, at least in the digital space, specifically for Blacksky.

Blacksky is the foremost example. They run Blacksky.community, which reads like a Bluesky client re-skin. However, Blacksky is going well beyond it behind the scenes: they have their own moderation and T&S team; their own rules about which accounts to keep around, ban, or relay; their own growing parallel stack (which will be great for general resilience); and are even building products for their community like Blacksky Cash.

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.