Rudy Fraser

Very excited to announce that I am a @mozilla.org Fellow working on @blackskyweb.xyz to create community spaces on the open social web (e.g. @atproto.com) Personally proud to represent the ATmosphere as a part of this cohort and on a global platform.

✌🏾staff✌🏾 but I’m a boss and don’t got a boss 🇪🇸

🌱 TOMORROW!🌱 From exposing AI weapons and mapping data centers to tiny AI models beating giant ones and 800 years of Qawwali on the Music Stage, it’s all happening at #MozFest this week, and it’s your last chance to be there 🌿 https://bit.ly/3UQBNlb

#BlackskyNews ❕

I super love it when people get upset about imperfect but earnest efforts to make online communities better. It's even better when people express their anger and doubt by posting denouncements on fully enshittified monopolistic platforms owned by billionaires.

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

This week connect with us in Barcelona. 1. Open Knowledge Foundation & @avilarenata.bsky.social Symposium: symposium.opentechresearch.org 2. Our Meetup with incredible people from Isabela from @torproject.org to @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team: luma.com/mmfpumzi 3. @mozilla.org festival.

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

Come through! It's gonna be a good show.

Use promo code RF25OFF for 25% off your MozFest ticket. mzl.la/rudy

Should be fixed. Give @rishkebab.blacksky.team a virtual high-five.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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We’re aware that Blacksky Trending Topics aren’t updating. Someone will go into office tomorrow to physically reboot the server (and shortly after we’ll have a way to do that reboot remotely)

Bullish developments!

happy creole day to all lucians 🇱🇨

piano rendition of “Runaway” by Kanye West performed for us.

Agreed. We need to build apps that corporate spots cannot replicate instead of taking development cues from them. Making people choose this over that is just re-creating the same issues we've had for the last two decades. We shouldn't be building today's apps by yesterdays myopic paradigms.

Bluesky video compression is the worst

Plaza Cataluña esta okupada y viene la huelga general. Imágenes: varias fotos de las consignas y escultura rebelde dentro del campamento, y un foto de policía Antimotín

Rudy don't miss 🔥

Love this, a payment system allows so much for creators all around the network and allows for apps have built in donation or tips based on their identity. Absolutely huge

Out the gate *swinging* with fiscal services on protocol

LOVE this. The ecosystem keeps growing … I think 2027 will be a very exciting year for AT Proto and everyone who cares about an open internet.

Happy to see Open Payments mentioned here. Congrats to Rudy and BlackSky!

things you see coming from the Blacksky team aren’t necessarily coming from me. at 7 people, increasingly, I’m not involved. unless you’re talking about rsky — in which case the contribution history is public.

I am now reiver.myatproto.social on a Blacksky PDS. I was reiver.bsky.social on a Bluesky PDS. #BlackskyAlgorithms

ATProto is headed to MozFest! Will we see you there? Check out our co-founder @tessa.germnetwork.com on a panel with @rude1.blacksky.team of Blacksky, @kandake.africa of Eskahlay and Northsky, and @offline.arushibandi.com of Habitat — moderated by the one and only @anildash.com

🗣️ Tawk! @kukuwa.blacksky.app

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

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Reminds me of this

Mozilla Foundation is betting-big on small. Applications for Mozilla Foundation's new Incubator cohort are now open with up to $500,000 available per project over three years. Human-Scale AI, built for the people and problems it's meant to serve⚡ https://mzl.la/47sNcKO