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        "alt": "\nIn spite of the administration's purge, Rudy Fraser, the creator of Blacksky, says he is\n\"heartened by preservation efforts\" he's seen so far, including from Harvard Law Library's Innovation Lab -which is rescuing federal datasets-and companies such as loy Media, which leverage Al and VR/AR to scan and annotate African artifacts, making them accessible to people on the continent who otherwise can't view them.\nIn 2023, Fraser launched Blacksky, the custom feed and moderation service that quickly turned into the central meeting ground for many Black users on Bluesky. He tells me he also views Blacksky as a living archive.\nCurrently its database holds 17 million posts from Black users over the last two years (excluding deletions and moderation removals).\n\"Because the AT Protocol is public and Blacksky's implementation is open source, anyone with the technical chops could reconstruct the dataset-minus moderation actions-even if our primary databases disappeared,\" he says. \"Open source, decentralized tooling ensures that, if any single company becomes a nation-state target, the communities that rely on its infrastructure can keep operating.\"",
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  "text": "Huge shout out to @jasooooon.bsky.social for writing this very important story for @wired.com . Also love to see @atbw.bsky.social and @bergisjules.bsky.social get light for the very important work they are and have been doing for years. ✊🏾\n\nBlacksky is memory work 🖤"
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