X has shut down its Communities feature due to lack of use and a flood of spam, leaving dozens of groups digitally homeless. In response, Blacksky presents Acorn, a decentralized platform based on the AT Protocol, the same technology that powers Bluesky. Users are seeking a refuge away from the advertising chaos.
Acorn uses AT Protocol to avoid centralized censorship 🌱
Acorn relies on the AT Protocol, an open standard that allows users to control their data and move between services without depending on a single server. Blacksky, the team behind the tool, has designed the platform so that groups can easily migrate their communities. Data federation promises distributed moderation, although there is no official release date for the general public yet.
Communities dies of success, but not the kind X expected 🤖
X shut down Communities because nobody was using them, except for bots selling fake watches. Now Acorn promises a clean space, although given the history of decentralized platforms, surely someone will soon ask for a group to debate whether spam is really that bad. Meanwhile, volunteer moderators are already warming up to kick out the first cryptocurrency sellers.