the intercommunal net,
scaling safe communities
with shared resources &
democratic tools
scaling safe communities
with shared resources &
democratic tools
What is Blacksky Algorithms?
Every online community should control its own destiny. We’re building the intercommunal net where communities can use decentralized tools to govern themselves, pool resources, and stay safe on their own terms.
Safe Spaces, Your Way
Build communities where people actually want to hang out. Set your own rules, moderate content together, and create spaces that work for your community.
Fund Things Together
Pool money for what matters to your community. Whether it’s covering server costs, paying creators, or funding local projects.
Decide Together
Make decisions as a community, not as subjects of a platform. Vote on changes, allocate resources democratically, and govern your space with decentralized tools built for collective decision-making.
Recent Posts
A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications
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.
Creating a Safer Web: Blacksky’s Moderation Tool
In this presentation, I will discuss our moderation service, how we use Polis to bring the community in to make decisions on creating new labels, and some of the best practices among our volunteer moderators and Trust and Safety team. The goal is to give others (communities and developers) on the protocol some ideas to think about when spinning up their own moderation tools.
Groundings with my Siblings: Lessons Learned Building for Community
I had the privilege of discussing Blacksky and AT Protocol at several different college campuses, conference venues and other settings along with webinars and doing user research. I plan to share those learnings to help others build better products and how we particularly plan to incorporate those learnings from both a product and operations standpoint.
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin
Escaping Algorithmic Binds: Creators vs. Corporate Platforms (w/ Bridget Todd & Rudy Fraser at SXSW)
The biggest social media platforms in the world have alienated their users and trapped them inside algorithms that only serve corporate interests. But there is good reason to have hope for the future of decentralized social apps, made for and by their communities. In this live interview recorded at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas, Rabble speaks with Rudy Fraser, the creator of Blacksky Algorithms, and Bridget Todd, the host of the podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet and an affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.