This is a bad faith argument based on an admitted misunderstand of how these systems work. And it’s hard to believe it‘s not about Black folks as the author claims when the only post concerning the protocol is about a Black led implementation of it.

Don’t ask @rude1.blacksky.team or @blackskyweb.xyz for nothing you don’t fight @bsky.app for

Chance the Rapper being an AI shill completely makes sense considering what I know about his disregard for consent

Maisha (meaning Life) by: The Zawose Queens

Borderline sorry to who I offend but when white people show up at your shores, send them back.

There have been so very many posts by people that I would have loved to read/support - but it was Substack and I’m not even opening a link to that shit

We set the tone for cool. People are loathe to admit it but our existence is the trend.

LOL *immediately unfollows and blocks*

An Israeli bobsled pilot reports their training apartment was robbed Saturday, with passports and valuable items stolen.

mind you btw, anime ass pfps whining. stfu. keep cooking Rudy 🫰🏾

I can't help but think of the deja vu Dr. Flowers has to be experiencing because he made some of the same connections about the fediverse as well before he understandably decided to depart. It seem Bluesky is determined to replicate the same mistakes www.techpolicy.press/the-whitenes...

I have a lot of thoughts about this but I keep coming back to the way that dev spaces, even ones premised on “openness,” are ultimately organized around, and adopt the orientations of, whiteness. When you view the ATProto from this lens, all of these criticisms make sense.

Something I think about a lot is how critically acclaimed Man in the High Castle was only for people to turn around and elect, again, the person that is enacting policy so many people were allegedly disgusted by in the show.

at some point, US media has to realize that this framing is exactly what has led to this point? They love him because he voices and enacts their darkest most racist and violent thoughts and desires.

Another example of white people working diligently to wipe themselves out faster.

Ha, I told y'all. A lot of people are going to be upset when Black folks on the web start gatekeeping what we do. Because a lot of people's identity and success is based on hating on and stealing from us. A lot, a lot.

Friends, it seems real? www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

The grandbabies of the white folks who burned down Black business districts is hot under the collar watching Black people succeed at any endeavor in these times. They see Black folks doing their own thing, antiblackness is instinct for them, they move to crush Black joy & life. They ain't slick.

White folks in the fedi did the same exact thing when Black and Brown folks started using blocklists to protect their space. Community curation is as old as the internet itself, but it became a problem when we started telling white people no. That's just pure entitlement.

Days like today is why I love being an old dude in tech. I look at mediocre white dev directly in their eyes and explain to them technically, socially, spiritually, grammatically, etc why they are just full of shit in no uncertain terms. I *know* you're lying. And that's why you're mad Bitch

Whoa, whoa. You really didn't have to put my business in the street like this. So rude.

Yeah, this is 4chan culture bleeding into Bluesky. I know this behavior. This isn't just racism. This is social engineering that virtue signals to other white nationalists. Notice how they don't use any slurs, and have Ukraine flag. That's very, very specific.

Imagine the world we could live in if white people had the same energy for Trump and ICE like they do for hating Black folks creating our own spaces. We'd have unlimited energy and vacationing on Mars by now.

White people upset over the creation of a Black space… A tale as old as time.

Especially considering every major independent social media project does this. Every single one. There is no such that as protocol purity. The 'argument' is literally deployed w/ hostility when non white devs innovate in ways we are told isn't possible. It's not a technical issue in the slightest

I guess we gotta repeat it for the folks in the back: I've never seen a project like Blacksky over years of watching social platforms. It's remarkable in many ways. That Blacksky is out in front on both community and technical leadership is something the Atmosphere is incredibly fortunate to have.

Mmm. White people reacting to a Blacks Only space sure don't seem to mind it when them spaces are actual neighborhoods or schools or prisons!

The more resistance (pun intended) Rudy gets on this, the more obvious the need for Blacksky becomes

People are really hating on and being jealous of Rudy and the Blacksky team b/c they are doing what mediocre white devs said wasn't possible. Let's just get it all in the open and call it what it is b/c fuck all that. It's literally white people trying to destroy something they can't control.

I dare any Atmosphere dev to come and try to explain to me why Blacksky having instance only post is "bad" without disparaging that project or its creator. Talk shit to someone who actually knows how these systems work. Fucking fakes. Yes, I'm pissed off. I'm tired of white people just LYING

Let me clear. Any dev that says instance only posting is "bad" in response to Blacksky announcing it will be implemented soon is a fucking racist. Because there are so many projects that have that feature, but no one had a problem with it until now. It's literally some uncut anti-Black bullshit.

The backlash against Blacksky after announcing it will have Blacsky only posts is based purely on racism. Because this feature has been a main stay in the fedi for a long time, but it was by a white devs, so there wasn't a problem. But when Black folks do it, suddenly it's an issue.

*whispers* what if we had our own conference? 💡

These are the same exact 'arguments' I heard when I built #thebadspace, a community safety tool in the fediverse that tracks sources of harm. I can affirm these attacks indicate the effectiveness of what Blacksky is doing, because it presents a clear and present danger to the status quo.

Starvation by design: How Israel turned food into a weapon of war in Gaza flip.it/n1QCfL

they are trafficking everybody but they are raping women and children kidnapping rape and murder state sanctioned

Fallout season 2 was so good, I’m really about to watch season one again.

The PDF Cult of Trumpnstein youtu.be/YR-IROwRDFE Not sure how long this one will stay up for reasons that ought be apparent

Considering how quickly Substack was funded and then subsequently monetized, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a direct connection to Epstein’s circle. Especially considering how unrepentantly they defend hate content.

Fear of a Black Internet is real because so many social media models are based on straight up theft and exploitation of the culture. The idea of Black folks building a space for us that we gatekeep is an extinction level event for a lot of platforms and creators. A lot a lot.

I believe it’s from the third episode of this docuseries on him. Pretty sure it’s on NHK’s YouTube now but not 100% on it. Should be able to find it somewhere tho www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

This is a key lesson the fediverse refuses to learn, which is why its development has been leap frogged by ATProtocol

Guess what happens when the protocol is put above the people?

They’re also forgetting that decentralization has no value on its own. The purpose of decentralization is *against* oppressive structures. If a community agrees on an implementation that works for the community, that’s good for them! The protocol is not more important than the people.

A lesson I’ve learned as a Black dev is that when folks tell us to go do our own thing if we don’t like what‘s available, it’s based on the assumption we can’t so we disappear. When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought

Sounds like my family history. Consistently slim builds with higher risk for Type 2 diabetes. Prior research shows link to diabetes for multiple generations after experiencibg famine in India and China, too. Enslaved people were fed starvation-level rations and worked to death.

Grave of the Fireflies. One of the single greatest films I’ve ever seen but NOPE.

Remembering J Dilla on his birthday (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006) 🕊 One of my fav songs he produced.."Runnin" by Pharcyde #DillaDay 💜