Rudy wants revolution.
Founder & CEO, @blacksky.app
Building community networks and technologies blackskyweb.xyz + wethepeople.nyc
move fast and break chains;
revolution now; not tomorrow—now. 🏴☠️
🔗: linkat.blue/rudyfraser.com
- The Blacksky domestic tour has officially concluded and I'm back in town.🗽 (streets saying they want me out in the UK/EU though)
- “We want to re-align the incentives of the social web ecosystem, helping many more new apps and communities (like pioneering efforts such as @blacksky.app ) spring up. We want to see content moderation services focused on underserved languages, broadcasters and media stepping into the space…” 👍🏾
- We have two big announcements to share with you! free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...
- “Flying the Jolly Roger was a crew's way of announcing they accepted they were on their way to hell.” 🏴☠️ Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
- “To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable. Conceiving of something as a gift changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical makeup of the ‘thing’ has not changed.”
- “It is a small number of people who decide to actually build something to show that something is possible who can meaningfully alter what this next generation of social networks look like. And that is pretty exciting to me.” ❤️🔥
- Bluesky Report 115 - This week's news for Bluesky and atproto: - Lots of new independent atproto infrastructure, with new relays, appviews, and more - research on blocking behaviour on Bluesky - @graze.social is giving dev grants to accelerate the ecosystem fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
- On a high tech plantation, far from Marcus Garvey Blvd, hearing about books bound with the skin of enslaved ancestors, trying to stuff bags full of money until the seams rip — for the cause And niggas just cannot relate to the feeling.
- Today at 1:30pm ET. In-person is booked up but zoom is still open.
- I'll be presenting on my work on Blacksky at ASML's Spring Synthesizer along with the other fellows @louisbarclay.bsky.social and @fayjohnson.bsky.social -- It'll will be open to the public. Pop out if you're around or tune in virtually. cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...
- > social media and social networks are two different things that have sometimes been conflated. Social media is the proverbial global town square. A social network is the web of relationships between people; these might span apps, the web, and in-person conversations alike. Yes.
- I’ve written before about what I’d do if I ran Bluesky or Mastodon. But what if I started from scratch? What would it look like to build a new open social platform - one that's private-by-default, human-centered, and sustainable from day one? Here’s the blueprint I’d follow: werd.io/2025/if-i-st...
- P.S. This is what Blacksky's relay/firehose server looks like btw - simultaneously managing connections to hundreds of servers, storing daily data for all 35M users on the network and replaying the messages for listeners. The rightmost node is the firehose listener for the Blacksky feeds.
- The @blacksky.app feeds and moderation service are now powered by our own atproto relay wss://atproto.africa 🌍 One of (if not Thee 1st) from-scratch, full-network relays 🏆 Sync v1.1 compliant ✅ Backfill window + plc cache 🧳 Built in #rustlang 🦀 in 3 weeks by @utkarshgupta137.bsky.social 🏎️ #ATDev
- Deer Social is so cool and I can't wait to get @aviva.gay's autograph.
