@hildabast @PLOS I'm #transgender and left #Bluesky after 2 years there earlier this month. I've used the #fediverse in some capacity since 2017 and love it. I went to Bluesky to see #ATProto progress, tried #Blacksky servers which failed miserably for me and a ton of other users in reliability (Couldn't post, blank feeds).

So now i'm back here but bridged to follow some Bluesky accounts. I think if more accounts there bridge that will help people feel more inclined to come back.

Who on here edits #Wikipedia and wants to make a page for #Blacksky ?

Wikipedia as we know has a well-known racial bias, & based on a conversation here I was thinking it might help some of the #protocol convo's if info about Blacksky were available there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_bias_on_Wikipedia

EDIT: there's a DRAFT up now, can anyone post it? Needs one more line about how Blacksky is a Black-led community for Black sociality online, or something. Cite: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/building-blacksky/

Draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

Hey can anyone who edits #Wikipedia take look at this draft entry for #Blacksky and initiate the steps to publish it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

Mastodonians put this together over the past month (https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115166596826618536; https://musician.social/@Anne_Delong/115321834133067505 ; some of the thread is broken) but I don't have a way to publish. TIA!

#ATProto

«Until now, folks have had to make the choice, unconsciously or otherwise, between the jankiness of the fediverse or closed platforms where they have no control» -Rudy Fraser talking about #Blacksky in @TechCrunch today

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a-new-wave-of-social-media-apps-provide-hope-in-a-doomscrolling-world/

«Until now, folks have had to make the choice, unconsciously or otherwise, between the jankiness of the fediverse or closed platforms where they have no control» -Rudy Fraser talking about #Blacksky in @TechCrunch today

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a-new-wave-of-social-media-apps-provide-hope-in-a-doomscrolling-world/

On a serious note, I’m proud of the work being done at #Blacksky as well as #Blackfedi. Black and Brown folks we don’t need to get caught up in anyone’s protocol & platform wars, life is already tough for us and there’s minimal spaces for us as it is. We should be turning #BlackTwitter into the combined spaces of #ATProto #ActivityPub . We need safe, fun, funny, creative etc spaces for our people. Black and Brown owned digital spaces! Where users can determine their own experiences without being dragged one way or the other regarding algorithms, full text search, quote posts, PM harassment etc I look forward to that day and look forward to contributing to that. #Blacklove #Blackpower #Tech #BlackFediverse

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3m2n62loinl2p

#BlackSky #BlueSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3m2n62loinl2p

#BlackSky #BlueSky

@ricci

It should be stated the purpose behind this analysis was not to dump on #Bluesky, but rather to create a framework for assessing progress of these networks to stated goals of decentralization. Note the #ATmosphere, while very centralized, is making progress. The trend line is positive, mostly due to users moving to #Blacksky.

The usefulness of this analytic is that instead of just accepting marketing statements we have a quantifiable basis using accepted statistical models to refer to.

@irelephant

you're replying to a post in which it is demonstrated that a suspension from #bluesky affects #blacksky

to ignore that, and yet still say what you just said, is rather cultish of you

so, ironic indeed

am i a cultist for championing #mastodon over bluesky?

i can be suspended from your server, calckey.world

doesn't affect my reach with other servers:

the #fediverse is truly #decentralized

meanwhile, i ask you to look at the post above again

because #reality is not a cult

More #Bluesky #drama for you

Someone was suspended

Death threats? Plain criticism? I didn't investigate

But:

The suspension affects #Blacksky as well

All this talk about the *promise* of #decentralization

But that is not the reality

Cultists buy the promise and ignore the reality

Come to #Mastodon / #Fediverse

Oh we have drama too

Some instances suspend out of capricious bullshit, a Spanish Inquisition

But you still have reach:

We are truly #decentralized

https://bsky.app/profile/gregpak.net/post/3m2htgspjkc26

There is a #Wikipedia draft for #Blacksky over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

It could use some love from someone who actually understands what it is and how the #ATprotocol and #bluesky work (which would not be me).

Pretty much any additions appreciated, but please don't remove sources, since that's an existential threat to a wikipedia article.

There is a #Wikipedia draft for #Blacksky over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

It could use some love from someone who actually understands what it is and how the #ATprotocol and #bluesky work (which would not be me).

Pretty much any additions appreciated, but please don't remove sources, since that's an existential threat to a wikipedia article.

Not only did these folks build out a whole bunch of ATProto-compatible components but they were able to raise a run-rate of $85k p.a for their infrastructure.

Obviously, a Fedi instance costs a fraction of that, but just imagine what community contributions of that size could do - such as pay community-funded devs to build the things that are missing here - things that their community may have some really fucking useful situational awareness of.

#fediverse #Blacksky #Bluesky

I don't know how useful it is to tell people how "truly decentralized" Bluesky is, or that it's funded by the likes of Blockchain Capital, but-!

I do think it's worth promoting efforts like https://www.blackskyweb.xyz and https://northskysocial.com that work towards wrestling control of our online lives away from corporations back to us.

https://bsky.app/profile/ruuuuu.de/post/3lzy33cc6322h

#bluesky #blacksky #NorthSky #ATProto #SocialMedia

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115289804212133504

So, here is a Bluesky question. Can people in Ohio simply switch to Blacksky?

Let's say you are in one of the states that #Bluesky is now requiring you do age verification, or for any other reason you don't like the current direction of Bluesky PBC, can you really just go sign up for #Blacksky...

Blacksky sign-up >>> https://blacksky.community/starter-pack/rudyfraser.com/3kvubqmzzi32t

...and will you then be able to interact with the entire Bluesky network without doing the age verification thing?

I don't know how useful it is to tell people how "truly decentralized" Bluesky is, or that it's funded by the likes of Blockchain Capital, but-!

I do think it's worth promoting efforts like https://www.blackskyweb.xyz and https://northskysocial.com that work towards wrestling control of our online lives away from corporations back to us.

https://bsky.app/profile/ruuuuu.de/post/3lzy33cc6322h

#bluesky #blacksky #NorthSky #ATProto #SocialMedia

@pluralistic

Good discussion of the inherent anti-censorship benefits of decentralization.

Giving #Bluesky credit for being decentralized because of #Blacksky, when Blacksky only currently has about 2000 users out of 34 million, seems a bit generous. But heck, it's a start, right?

Good mention of the Bluesky TOS changes, but feel like it would more accurate to say AT Protocol is potentially decentralizable, rather than currently decentralized, until mass credible exit is actually a reality.

"soooo what else do we need to do to make this Blacktwitter, because I think we should do more of that"

https://fire.asta.lgbt/notes/ackrs97gn2fb02hz

I'd say: follow Black folks who are active in the fediverse, lift up their voices, report any harassment you see in their replies.

Make the people who are already here feel welcome, they'll do the rest.

#BlackFedi#BlackFediverse#BlackMastodon #blacksky #fediverse