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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 29/09/2026

@lordaslan.bsky.social and @drabtealexperiment.bsky.social, apologies for mislabeling your accounts earlier. A volunteer moderator made a mistake due to context collapse, and we've reversed the labels and are discussing how we avoid making similar mistakes in the future.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 19/09/2026

Hi! I'm Lucca, one of the directors of Northsky Social Cooperative. I focus mainly on cooperative development (business stuff), community moderation, and managing our volunteers. I like to welcome our new users with a follow and a hello, but if that's not your thing just lmk, my DMs are open! 💚💜

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 21/09/2026

It is still *so wild to me* that adult tagged posts (NSFW) doesn't blur in the Notifications tab of the Bsky app. (probably doesn't work on northsky.app yet either, but i'll make a ticket for it!)

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

⚠️Heads-up! We will perform updates and maintenance on our PDS and related services tomorrow 9/22 from 7am to 8am (Pacific time)⚠️ Users may experience brief downtime periods during this window. We'll be back up and running as soon as possible! Updates will be posted here. Link for status:

status.northsky.social

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 20/09/2026

A real friend never asks you to hide your colors🌈 Some eyes see only two genders, but kind hearts see more. Closed minds and harsh words cannot put out your light. Shine in the way you were born to shine. Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 19/09/2026

A good conversation point that came up in one of our collab seshes with other moderators in the indie sky space is... how do you draw the boundaries of "your community"? since Northsky started as a PDS instance, this is where we drew the boundaries at first. but we will need to evolve beyond that.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

If I unfollowed you in the last couple minutes... that was unintended 😅 If I followed you, that *was* intended! Hiiii! 😁✨ If you don't want me following you just lmk here or in DMs 🙏

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

Transphobia isn't just "the beliefs a person espouses" and "how they choose to articulate that" but also their ACTIONS and the IMPACT of those actions. This reality will always be considered when we moderate. Building a permission structure and tools to silence the trans voices is Transphobia.

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recent events have a lot of people asking "what is northsky?" We're still working on revamping our website, but this video about migrating to Northsky does a quick job of explaining our account hosting services:

youtu.be

Migrating to Northsky Social on AT Protocol

YouTube video by Northsky Social

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

i do think users need to be able to whitelist / override on an account level decisions made by labelers for themselves this is a design oversight that's eroding the usefulness of composable moderation

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

this is also making posting a little slower for our users... so we're going to try to balance getting people in the door, with posting experience. bear with us while we learn and adjust!

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Northsky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

Some new users have reported to me that they're getting harassed when joining Northsky. We've addressed this in one of our previous newsletters, so I'll post some excerpts here. ⚠️Please do not direct any negative attention at any of the users doing this. We don't want to perpetuate harm.⚠️

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a good time to remind everyone that you can check the health of our services at status.northsky.social This will let you know if we're experiencing an outage, so please add it to your bookmarks 💚💜

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're recovering from an unplanned PDS outage! Apologies for the inconvenience. Services might be slower for a short while, but all user data is safe. Welcome back!

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

aaaaand we're back! 😅 had a little outage, we will provide a post-mortem on the incident soon. apologies for the inconvenience!

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 18/09/2026

we just had the highest number of migrations in a single day that we've ever had! over 100 people claimed their invites and moved onto northsky today! 💚💜

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

So we have invite vetting tooling now and @jdot.blacksky.team thinks it's pretty cool. Neat! 😎

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

our volunteer moderators and I have been labeling transphobia all week at about 5x our normal rate of reports thanks to bluesky's unwillingness to recognize transphobic harassment and apologia. and we'll keep doing it, unpaid, because our community deserves that. 👉@moderation.northsky.social👈

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

anyways, when bluesky inevitably reverses course after the political winds shift and they shitcan aaron, they can hire me at twice his pay and i'll clean up his mess, like women always do.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

the average bluesky user can smell the BS coming from that thread

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

"Imagine how much of my job I won't have to do with this automated scoring system! I'll never have to use my brain to make a judgment call again!"

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

Harassment is not "brutally hard to moderate." Yes, it's a combination of behaviour and content, but it's not hard to recognize when you see it. That's only a difficult call for a machine to make, not a trained human being with experience and institutional knowledge.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

We don't need your sympathy. We need your protection. You are failing us, and you've been failing us repeatedly for 2 years now, and are obstinately not listening to us. You even locked down this thread so you couldn't be held accountable or learn anything from us.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

he should have stopped RIGHT HERE. instead he goes on to show his ineptness and ignorance by continuing the thread.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

What a time for the head of Bluesky T&S to drop a doozy. We'll get it fixed and let folks know where they can sign up.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 17/09/2026

If the "rude" label is any indication of how bluesky T&S will determine who is "toxic", then we can expect this to apply disproportionately to trans and marginalized users suffering under fascism and genocide. This will harm long-term users and not the sock puppets doing coordinated transphobia.

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Kandy @kandyelmo.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Being on the internet long enough will teach you just how much racism is in EVERYTHING. EVEN IN THE THINGS YOU CARE ABOUT MOST, AND YOU GOTTA LOCK IN AND STOMP THAT SHIT DOWN!

Tumblr post from ferocioustrout where a drawing of a sapphic fem couple and drawn in two different shades of skin color. One is being seen as "masculine butch4butch Yuri", the other is seen as "girly fem4fem Yuri"

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 13/09/2026

report accounts harassing trans people to @moderation.northsky.social we'll label them AND the **big accounts** who encourage and permit their followers to harass trans people in their threads this kind of harassment gets trans people killed, and is the kind of "dog-piling" that requires action.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 13/09/2026

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Northsky Moderation @moderation.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

We label Islamophobia. You can report it here @moderation.northsky.social.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 11/09/2026

It's worth pointing out even after joining the Northsky PDS, a Bluesky appview ban still carries BIG consequences. At this time, we *do not* have our own appview, so a bsky appview ban will lock you out of signing in and posting. However, your account *will be preserved* and not deleted.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 11/09/2026

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 09/09/2026

Good news! We've just finished moving away from our old clunky spreadsheet-based invite vetting pipeline, to a brand new shiny Invite Vetting Tool which is going to help us greatly accelerate how fast invites roll out. We're still doing the same level of manual vetting, but with better tooling!

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 09/09/2026

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 03/09/2026

Our community guidelines don't reference "dogpiling" b/c that term is not easily definable and means different things to different people. We respond to harassment, stalking, and coordinated campaigns, but *not* organic backlash against bigoted content or bad behavior. Read more! Feedback welcome!

northskysocial.ca

Community Guidelines — Northsky Social

By using Northsky Social applications on the ATprotocol, you are agreeing to abide by the following Community Guidelines.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 03/09/2026

I can't reply to this thread, so I'll QRT. Using an individual block is an effective and immediate option. We can label an account for harassment if reported to @moderation.northsky.social When we have our own appview, we can appview ban certain accounts too so they never show up in northsky.app.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 03/09/2026

Another batch of invites sent out to waitlisters! Thank you for your continued patience. 💚💜

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 25/08/2026

Another batch of invites sent out! 💚💜

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 21/08/2026

Another batch of 300 invites sent out! We're really picking up steam.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 15/08/2026

It's wild to look back and see what we've built as an all-volunteer worker cooperative in just a year and a half.

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 15/08/2026

Our members and volunteers have been hard at work building out our services/infra and we’re happy to announce that the Northsky Social App is live! We’ve spruced it up with some features you’re going to enjoy. This is one more step in our plan to provide a community platform fully operated by us.

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Northsky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 12/08/2026

Another batch of invites sent out to Northsky waitlisters! We're picking up steam!

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 12/08/2026

This is part of why Northsky is an invite-only community. We can guarantee our users are authentic, we're focused on serving our community, we vet every update Bluesky pushes to the software and make tweaks as needed, and we're working on features our community wants and feeding back into ATproto.

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 06/08/2026

Another round of invites sent out! We're on a roll! 💚💜

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 04/08/2026

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

northskysocial.com

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 04/08/2026

Another batch of invites just went out! We're picking up steam thanks to the efforts of new volunteers!

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Lucca @ Northsky 💚💜 @lucca.northsky.team · 30/07/2026

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! 💜💚

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