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Rudy wants revolution.
@rude1.blacksky.team
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founder & ceo blacksky algorithms [ @blackskyweb.xyz‬ ]
organizer wethepeople.nyc

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You may or may not end up on the Jumbotron screen today! #MozFest
Blacksky booth at MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
Rudy in a cybersyn chair Photo of cybersyn ops room with a woman sitting. Chairs have no buttons 3d render of cybersyn from wikipedia
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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FTR the app-view is up and has been for a few weeks.
Ingesting terabytes of social media data is not trivial.
I've worked to re-implement some experimental work by Divy into rsky-ingester, rsky-backfiller, and rsky-indexer

When it's production ready, it'll move off of staging.blacksky.community
Grafana dashboard showing billions of records written to the database Diagram of backfill process
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)

They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other

TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
Slides for IETF featuring Blacksy ietf 124 - bof atproto 2025-11-5 clinton bowen
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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if Blacksky don’t like it, whatchu gon’ do bout it.
Blacksky Algorithms laptop and bumper stickers. Also a festive sticker mule sticker
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The other presenters were biologists, neuroscientists — a guy who worked on Man of Steel and Minority Report

Me:
Ernie Barnes “The Sugar Shack” dance club painting
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Take me back.
DAEMON by Daniel Suarez CIA: "Jesus. So we can't stop this thing? What's it up to?" DARPA: "Its proximate purpose appears to be self- preservation. Its ultimate purpose is unclear. It acts like a distributed Al agent—which would make sense if Mat- thew Sobol designed it." CIA: "Artificial intelligence? You're not serious!" DARPA: "Let me be clear: this is not a thinking, talk- ing, sentient machine. This is narrow Al-like a charac- ter in a computer game. It's a collection of specific rules searching for recognizable patterns or events. Very basic. Nonetheless, very potent. It can alter course based on what's occurring in the real world, but it can't innovate or deviate from its given parameters. It required an in-
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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If anyone knows of a tattoo artist with these similar vibes please let me know. Looking to get a cyberpunk-inspired arm sleeve or back tattoo.

I’m based in Brooklyn but willing to travel (North America) for the right artist at this point.
Netrunner searching for rogue AI by @julianllouve Cybernetic back tattooed wired to mechanical flowers by nini-inks Sandevistan cybernetic spine by nini-inks Cyborg and circuit board aesthetic sleeve and hand tattoo (not sure of artist)
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Arthur fist meme
October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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But what about now It would have been better if the open networking sector had longer to build-just another year or two before Musk's acquisition of Twitter or before the acceleration of the global authoritarian slide. But the ecosystems we have today offer plentiful ways for people who care about community self-governance to support the work of building out viable systems for high-context governance and connecting them together, by supporting efforts like Blacksky. Algorithms and Northsky Social, which are building AT Protocol-based social networking stacks centering Black and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, Bonfire Networks, which is building next-generation public-interest networking on the Activity Pub protocol, and A New Social, which is building bridges and migration services that connect people and communities across open networks.
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Cyborg arm sleeve consultation today
3 cyborgs toting deadly weapons from the Cyberpunk 2077 universe
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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looking forward to speaking at Better World by Design this weekend in Rhode Island.

“Better World by Design is a student-led initiative at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design that celebrates the interdisciplinary collaboration between designers, educators, innovators, and learners.”
Better World x Design 16th Annual Design Conference Soul Oct. 25th, 2025 Where there is soul, there is lite. Found in our hands, our creations, the nature we embrace. the soul is made of mind, will, emotions, and desire. how can we as creatives, makers, and designers embody Soul in the work we do? Sponsoredby 2 x 4 BROWN Headshot of Rudy
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Instructions unclear - you wanted more zombie content, yes?
An ironic post screenshotting Blacksky feed variables including a joke about amplifying zombie content in the algorithm SHOW_SPONSORED_POST=1 SPONSORED_POST_URI=at://did:plc:d2mkddsbmnrgr3domzg5qexf/app.bsky.feed.post/3l5yzacu2ue2l SPONSORED_POST_PROBABILITY=0.01 TRENDING_PERCENTILE=0.43 QUERY_BUFFER_MINS=0 FEEDGEN_TRENDING_CACHE_TTL=5 FEEDGEN_MEDIA_BLACKOUT_ENABLED=0 FEEDGEN_ZOMBIE_KEYWORD_MULTIPLIER=6.6 LABELER_EXCLUDED_SLURS=nigga,niggas,niggaz
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Blacksky Algorithms == Hard Decentralization.
Hard Decentralization Hard decentralization refers to the emergence of a resilient and multi-stakeholder Atmosphere that relies less on Bluesky PBC’s existence. There's some overlap with the other two goals here. Improving things like sync make it easier to run alternate infrastructure like Relays and Appviews, and our governance work should help build confidence that the protocol is a genuine public good that’s larger than Bluesky. To support the goal of hard decentralization, we're also tackling some specific technical challenges. Improving Non-Bluesky PDS Hosting The decentralization guarantees of AT come from the locked-open substrate of data hosted by Personal Data Servers (PDSes). One of our current goals to increase the resilience of the network is to encourage more non-Bluesky PDS hosting. We recently enabled account migration back to bsky.social. We hope this will give users the confidence to experiment with other hosts in the network, knowing they can always migrate back if they need to. Already we’re seeing an uptick in users posting from non-Bluesky PDSes. Some developers in the network have launched account migration tools that make it easier for non-technical users to migrate between hosts. Examples include PDS MOOver and Tektite. We believe that the next step is to introduce an account migration UI into the PDS itself. We also intend to make running a PDS more approachable for mid-size hosts. This includes adding auto-scaling rate limits to the Relay reference implementation so that hosts can scale up organically without needing permission or approval. We’re also looking at ways to improve the PDS distribution to make it easier to run and administer with thousands of users. Alternate Infrastructure We’re excited to see that more and more devs are experimenting with running alternate infrastructure in the network. Blacksky currently runs a full-network relay (using the rksy-relay implementation!), and is working on a full-network Bluesky appview. Futur showed us all that it was possible with Zeppelin, a full network appview that is now decommissioned. And Red Dwarf is a new Bluesky client that doesn’t use an Appview but rather drives the experience via direct calls to the PDS and generic indices provided by Microcosm. Please reach out to us if you’re working on running alternate infrastructure. We’re eager to lend a hand.
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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What I’m saying is:
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Many will assume that Sora represents a new era of social media, but that's wrong. All it does is reanimate our current one. It's trying to hold on to something people have a diminishing use for. "We're certainly beyond the hashtag, clout- chasing, and desire-for-virality era of social media," Fraser says. Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn't even a demand. "What problem are we solving here? They're like, 'You can try the new app. You can make a moose have a spa day! I don't need to make a moose have a spa day," comedy writer Matt Buechele said on Instagram. "Like, cancer still exists." The uptick in artificial social networks, Fraser tells me, is being driven by the same tech egoists who have eroded public trust and inflamed social isolation through "divisive" algorithms. "[Theyl are now profiting on that isolation by creating spaces where folks can surround themselves with sycophantic bots."
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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This (plus a DM to Bailey) is how I finally got @teal.fm to work.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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TC But Blacksky takes it one step further. It targets minorities and marginalized individuals and has an algorithm that can filter out racial harassment. Unlike X, where a user might block one racist person and then see another, users on Blacksky can completely filter out whatever they want from their timelines, providing a custom social media experience. "Sometimes you need a global stage. Sometimes you just want a cozy corner with close internet friends where you can control who sees what," Fraser told TechCrunch. Users own their data and can decide to host such information on Blacksky rather than Bluesky, giving them control over who has access to their content. People also vote on decisions together, Fraser said, such as what the community guidelines should be and if non-Black users should be allowed to post in the community.
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Yup! You should be able to enable it in settings
Screenshot of 2FA enabled for my account
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Cooking up an app-view 🧑🏾‍🍳
ASCII art at the Blacksky App View homepage 2421 evts/sec throughput Fetching my own profile from the blacksky app view 123 MiB/s inbound bandwidth
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I'd like to thank the Center for Cultural Innovation - AmbitioUS!
Their support of Blacksky Algorithms with a $30K grant will help us further our development of infrastructure for online communities (moderation, deliberation, and peer-to-peer payment tools). 🎉
AmbitioUS logo
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Thank you @beingbrina.bsky.social for this sweet gift. ❤️‍🔥
Really enjoyed speaking with @bridgettodd.bsky.social for the RxT community yesterday. Happy to do it again any time.
“thank you for sharing your vision and leadership with the RxT Community, Your work to unbreak social networks Inspires us to imagine freer digital futures. From: Sabrina” Alongside a bouquet of flowers
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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As you can see in this screenshot, not only are AJ Link's post and profile still available elsewhere, he is still posting (though seemingly less happily) freedom of speech unimpeded
This app Red Dwarf by @whey.party skips the bookstore and goes straight to the author. blacksky.community doesn't 5/11
avatar Festive Łink. 🎅🏿 🎄 🎁 @spacelawshitpost.me · 19h A lot of people talking big shit now because they think I won’t see. Fucking cowards. Bootlicking losers. 0 0 1 avatar Festive Łink. 🎅🏿 🎄 🎁 @spacelawshitpost.me · 19h It’s so weird being able to see people have whole discourses about me without being able to visibly respond. lol 0 0 3 avatar Festive Łink. 🎅🏿 🎄 🎁 @spacelawshitpost.me · 1d Hi @jazzpomegranate.blacksky.app. Make everyone change their profile pics to Free Link. Free Link Black Panther button like Free Huey. 1 0 1
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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How it feels when you ‘re founder-mode-maxxing and do your own PR, customer support and software development:
October 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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we already catching strays 😂
(doesn't even warrant addressing but, damn 50cent-what-he-say-fuck-me-for.gif)
To my knowledge there's only one alternate stack that runs atproto as a complete service, Blacksky. But this isn't a turnkey solution that you can stand up as your own independent alternative; Blacksky at present barely has documentation. And even Blacksky users are still more or less under the thumb of Bluesky's moderation service, if they intend to reach 99% of the network as it exists today.
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM