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Is Blacksky a racially self-segregated competitor to Bluesky?

I read the article and watch one of the videos linked in it and that’s the impression I got, but I’m hoping someone can confirm/explain.

I’m not on either network, so I think I’m woefully ignorant on this. I apologize if it’s a silly question.

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Twoafros@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As I understand, its a community focused ATproto instance separate from Bluesky. Racially self segregated is a weird phrase and a wrong assumption. You don’t to black to join but is a focused on black cultures and communities

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- Creddit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sorry if it was a weird phrase. I just didn’t know if other racial identities were allowed/wanted there. I didn’t want to presume what the intent of the community founders was.
  
  Thank you for your answer(and thank you to the others too).
  
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thenexusofprivacy@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It's not a silly question! I'd describe it more as an alternative to Bluesky, not really a competitor; all of the infrastructure and algorithms we’ve designed are fully interoperable with the rest of Bluesky. Rudy Fraser's 🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable is a good overview, including a description of the approach to decentralization

And no, it's not only for Black people. That said, as they get farther down the line they'll have some areas that are Black-only (using an approach that's based on fedi's local-only posts).

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Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To add to what blaze said, you don’t need to be black to join it, it’s just a platform for poc that has moderation and feeds that fit the goal of beimg a great place for them.

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Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a platform using AT Proto (the protocol Bluesky uses), independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances). That way they can apply their own moderation policies and don’t have to follow Bluesky censorship.

There is another one coming up: northskysocial.com/posts/about

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- flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances)
  
  It’s not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They’re able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it’s all public and PDSs don’t really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.
  
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  - Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Indeed, I was just giving a broad analogy, thank you for adding more details
    
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    flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.
    
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