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

Rudy Fraser

2026 Mozilla Fellows

Rudy is adding permissioned posts to the AT Protocol. He will publish an open permissioned data specification, technical documentation, and a reference implementation so other AT Protocol communities can build community-governed spaces of their own.

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marisa

Blacksky Isn’t Just Another Bluesky. Here’s the Difference.
The Verge

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky- and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often. We’re actually seeing a whole bunch of energy in Europe. We’ve got EuroSky. W Social just launched. There’s another one I think that’s about to launch.

AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation
Rishi

AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation

Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event features Rishi Balakrishnan, founding engineer at Blacksky Algorithms, building towards self-governable online communities on an integrated platform.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams

Thoughts on Cyberpositionality: The Construction of Digital Communities in Digital Spaces, Damien Patrick Williams

Public and semi-public online spaces and platforms like Twitter, Blacksky, and Discord provide an organizational arena where people can increase issue awareness, build senses of community, and share general information