Northsky Social Cooperative
@transrights.northsky.social
We're creating a safer social media experience for marginalized people, powered by ATProto, and operating as a nonprofit worker-owned cooperative in Canada. 📧Join invite queue: https://northskysocial.com/join 🆘Get support: https://tally.so/r/yPN6k6
Reminder, Northsky currently offers these services: - Account hosting on our PDS (invite-only), sign up: northskysocial.com/join - Moderation Labeler: @moderation.northsky.social - Pronouns Labeler: @pronouns.northsky.social With more on the way soon! Next up: - Social App - Northsky-only Posts
Sign up for an Invite
northskysocial.com
Another batch of invites just went out! We're picking up steam thanks to the efforts of new volunteers!
Reminder, Northsky currently offers these services: - Account hosting on our PDS (invite-only), sign up: northskysocial.com/join - Moderation Labeler: @moderation.northsky.social - Pronouns Labeler: @pronouns.northsky.social With more on the way soon! Next up: - Social App - Northsky-only Posts
Sign up for an Invite
northskysocial.com
Another batch of invites has gone out to waitlisters, as well as invites to folks we contacted recently for more information. Check your inboxes, and thanks for your patience! 💜💚
We're looking for more volunteer moderators! If you're looking forward to serving the Northsky community and the broader 2SLGBTQIA+ community on the ATmosphere, please consider applying! Link: tally.so/r/eqlkGq (If you've applied in the past and didn't hear back, please apply again!)
Volunteer Intake (Moderation)
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
We're looking for more volunteer moderators! If you're looking forward to serving the Northsky community and the broader 2SLGBTQIA+ community on the ATmosphere, please consider applying! Link: tally.so/r/eqlkGq (If you've applied in the past and didn't hear back, please apply again!)
Volunteer Intake (Moderation)
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
Apologies for the unexpected downtime, OVH informed us of a maintenance window which we had prepared for by adding an additional machine for failover. Unfortunately it looks like the volumes took longer than expected to migrate.
@pronouns.northsky.social now has over 270 pronoun combinations! This is a bit unwieldy to handle through liking posts so the pronoun webapp has been updated to include a picker and sync to the profile lexicon! This allows you to choose between 2 and 3 pronoun combinations. pronouns.northsky.app
What pronouns would you like to see in our @pronouns.northsky.social labeler? Leave suggestions below 👇💚💜
Welcome to the Northsky Pronouns Labeler! Like a post to get the pronoun. Alternatively use this little site to sign in and pick your pronouns! If you notice any problems place tag @transrights.northsky.social as this labeler is not monitored.
Northsky Pronouns
Pick your pronoun badge for Bluesky, powered by the Northsky Pronouns labeler.
pronouns.northsky.app
Dear Northsky Community, Following concerns brought to us by community members, we've investigated and removed Ripperoni from the Membership of the Northsky Social Cooperative. Ripp is no longer involved with or has access to Northsky. Our community's trust and safety is our number one priority.
Reminder to our black Northsky users, if you're on the Blacksky feed you can also make private posts on blacksky.community !
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 4w agoIt’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
Another invite batch sent out to Northsky waitlisters! 💚💜
Another 200 invites rolling out to Northsky waitlisters! As always, thank you for your patience, and welcome new community members!
Only users on our PDS will receive moderation e-mails for actions taken by our labeler. This is a limitation of how ATprotocol works. We have no knowledge of associated e-mail addresses for any accounts not hosted on our PDS. If you're labeled and want to dispute it, you can appeal in app or below.
Appeal a moderation decision
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
Another 200+ invites sent out to Northsky waitlisters! Excited to see new faces on Northsky soon 💚💜
Happy Pride Month from the Northsky Team! It's a pleasure to serve our 2SLGBTQIA+ community and work to build a sustainable platform for us and by us. Our joy, our struggles, our kindness, our art and culture, our talents and our humanity bring so much vibrance to the world. Keep living out loud!
⚠️Northsky Moderation is not intended as a full-scale replacement of Bluesky Moderation at this time⚠️ We only field reports related to the Labels you see in our profile. Other reports will be treated as out-of-scope. (This will evolve as Northsky grows)
Accounts that post adult content are welcome on Northsky. All we ask is that you tag your NSFW content appropriately. We have a "doesn't consistently tag nsfw" label on our @moderation.northsky.social labeler, which would only get applied in the event you didn't self-manage that.
📢 We had a few hiccups with our migrator earlier today, they should be resolved now! 📢 If you were trying and it was throwing errors, you should be safe to try again via the "Resume failed migration" flow. Thanks for your patience! 💚💜
> What’s more, we’ll be working with @blackskyweb.xyz to further refine our moderation practices and adopt their Acorn platform for community moderation. community 🤝 community
Northsky Social Cooperative@transrights.northsky.social · 2mo agoIt's time for another newsletter! In this one: - we reveal @moderation.northsky.social is ready for use! - we're teaming up with @moderation.blacksky.app to hone our craft and adopt their Acorn moderation platform. - we address harassment of Northsky users - we discuss recent bluesky bans
Another 150 invites sent out to Northsky waitlisters!
It's time for another newsletter! In this one: - we reveal @moderation.northsky.social is ready for use! - we're teaming up with @moderation.blacksky.app to hone our craft and adopt their Acorn moderation platform. - we address harassment of Northsky users - we discuss recent bluesky bans
Newsletter 8: Ramping up Moderation
northskysocial.com
It's time for another newsletter! In this one: - we reveal @moderation.northsky.social is ready for use! - we're teaming up with @moderation.blacksky.app to hone our craft and adopt their Acorn moderation platform. - we address harassment of Northsky users - we discuss recent bluesky bans
Newsletter 8: Ramping up Moderation
northskysocial.com
another 200 invites sent out to northsky waitlisters! we're onboarding some more help to speed this process up! thank you for your continued patience as we work through the backlog!
Reminder: We are working on our own App and Appview as part of Phase 2 of Northsky. We're also ramping up our moderation capacity, developing permissioned data (stratos.zone), and more. Give it a read and let us know what you think!
Northsky Social Cooperative@transrights.northsky.social · 4mo agoWe're working towards full independence from Bluesky as part of our Phase 2 plan. We're striving to reach this goal as soon as possible, so future outages don't impact our users. You can help us reach this goal by making a donation:
