Submitted 3 days ago by thenexusofprivacy@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidarity-looks-like
While most of this post is about Blacksky, there are a couple of sections that focus on the fediverse -- "And yet..." and "A great learning opportunity for the ActivityPub Fediverse"
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.
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
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.
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
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).
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.
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).
Blacksky is going to become a racist cesspit and get blocked from bsky cutting them off from 99.99% of the network. When you see the types that run it you know its inevitable.
What are the types that run it exactly?
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I didn’t know much about Blacksky, looks interesting that they are able to offer an alternative when Bluesky has to comply with censorship enforcements