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Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎

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omo osun. omo obatala. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? 💻community safety & support steward @ Blacksky https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/ poet community educator digital misogynoir scholar AuDHD

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Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎ @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · Aug 24

Here are some moderation tips for Blacksky from your fav community safety and support steward @ Blacksky: When making a report, it is helpful to add some context to your report! It is helpful for moderators when looking at the report and reviewing it to make a decision.

Screenshot of the report screen that shows where you can add 300 characters where to your report

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Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎ @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 1d

I turn 35 in like 8 days and I refuse to let anyone or anything piss me off. I had a hellish year so I’m celebrating not dying all fucking month.

Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎ @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 1d

It’s Baby Sawyer Szn!

A black cat with a white patch on his chest, sitting on the top shelf in a closet on top of multicolored shoes

A black cat named baby Sawyer sitting on their mommy’s desk on top of a pink desk mat, looking away from the camera

A black kitten named baby Sawyer at five months showing off their tiny baby teeth standing on an orange sofa

Baby Sawyer, a black kitten being cuddled by their black Mommy, who has on a white bonnet in yellow glasses. Their mommy is giving them a kiss and baby Sawyer’s eyes are closed with love.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.

Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.

Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

docs.blacksky.community

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

If this becomes a big enough problem, we can switch gears over time! When Blacksky Private Posts ships (eventually) that won't touch Bluesky services at all and we (the Blacksky community) can decide collectively how we want that to work (maybe we don't allow images/videos at all!) 10/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Other concerns that have been raised today seem to be around our processing of user data. Our privacy policy and processors are public blackskyweb.xyz/about/suppor...
Bluesky, which we view as a partner, may process your data differently than us when you use their app or even blacksky.community 9/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

While not at all trivial to do, Blacksky is in the fortunate position to have the technical talent and money in the bank to make this a trivial decision to do this week

This is different from our community.blacksky.* API which is going on hold (less Barnes & Nobles, more invite-only Book Club) 8/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

While I'm grateful tools like this exist, to me this is still an unacceptable experience. We can do better than the disconnected posts, profiles only visible on certain sites, inability to do global search, and inaccurate like/follow counts that are tolerated on other decentralized networks. 6/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

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

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Using book publishing as an analogy for AT Protocol, a PDS is like self-publishing your manuscript. You always retain a copy of it and can take it with you elsewhere (as long as you keep backups).

An App View (or API Server) is like a publishing house or bookstore. It's the distribution. 2/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 19d

morning, our dear community member Dahab is fundraising for his top surgery. Dahab does so much vital community work & has wanted to get top surgery done for a long time

pls contribute what you can & amplify...also check his instagram

www.gofundme.com/f/dahabsfund

www.instagram.com/p/DOwOue7DGqr/

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Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎ @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 1d

Felt. I’ve had over 15 close family members die over the last 5 years. Friday made number 17. I’m losing count and space on my altar every few months…. and I’m not counting any deaths prior to 2020. :/