the intercommunal net,
scaling safe communities
with shared resources &
democratic tools

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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.

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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

Funky Androids (series) by Nettrice R. Gaskins Created using text-2-image AI image generation.
Blacksky Team

Blacksky Algorithms’ Policy Towards Agentic Coding

We want to be specific when we talk about how Blacksky uses AI.

ATProto investment razor: if a team can easily explain their project to an investor coming in cold, they are not building something native. ATProto is weird. Any native life-form will look weird to an outsider. 🧵
Ricardo J. Mendez

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.

Dr. Kay slides
AtmosphereConf

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.

Rudy slide
AtmosphereConf

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.

Rishi

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin