Northsky Social Cooperative
Why build Northsky? #9
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Why build Northsky? |
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It's become clear to our members that the wellbeing of marginalized communities online is not only being neglected, but is actively under attack now. We started contemplating this project after a petition to "enforce Bluesky's moderation guidelines equally" gained over 26,000 signatures and was ignored by Bluesky Trust and Safety. We were all deeply disappointed in this lack of response, and the subsequent unfollowing of every trans person by the Head of Trust and Safety. We saw the writing on the wall. Ever since the inaguration, we've seen weekly and sometimes daily attacks on trans rights, immigrant rights, and attacks on communities of color. Tech corporations are complicit in complying with these attacks on our rights. We've seen Meta strip protections from LGBTQ people, allowing them to be called mentally ill on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. We've seen wave after wave of people leaving X for Bluesky due to the increasingly bigoted and fascist rhetoric promoted on that app. We cannot count on Big Tech to have our backs. The Bluesky developers in their wisdom open-sourced ATProtocol and the major infrastructure pieces of Bluesky so that they could be forked and federated with.Thanks to their prescience, our group has been able to get up to speed quickly and deploy a plan that should help keep us one step ahead of those who seek to harass, abuse, and erase our communities. |
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It's become clear to our members that the wellbeing of marginalized communities online is not only being neglected, but is actively under attack now.
We started contemplating this project after a petition to "enforce Bluesky's moderation guidelines equally" gained over 26,000 signatures and was ignored by Bluesky Trust and Safety. We were all deeply disappointed in this lack of response, and the subsequent unfollowing of every trans person by the Head of Trust and Safety. We saw the writing on the wall.
Ever since the inaguration, we've seen weekly and sometimes daily attacks on trans rights, immigrant rights, and attacks on communities of color. Tech corporations are complicit in complyi…