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Acorn Launches Platform for Organizations to Build Custom Online Communities
Acorn has debuted a new platform enabling organizations and creators to establish decentralized online communities using the AT Protocol. The toolset includes features for homepages, starter packs, customized feeds, and moderation. Developed by Blacksky, Acorn draws inspiration from Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' and aims to provide independent social spaces.
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Acorn launched a platform for organizations and creators to build online communities, TechCrunch reported. The platform uses the AT Protocol technology that powers Bluesky, allowing communities to build homepages, create starter packs for new members, and customize feeds and moderation tools.
Acorn’s platform comes from Blacksky, a company that builds a decentralized social media toolkit around the AT Protocol, which was developed by Bluesky’s team.
The AT Protocol is used by Bluesky and other open social apps including Flashes, Spark, Skylight, Surf, Streamplace, and Leaflet. Blacksky’s focus has been on building tools for a safer online space for the Black Twitter community, including forking Bluesky, building custom moderation services, and creating its own implementation of the AT Protocol.
X announced it was shutting down its Communities feature, TechCrunch reported.
Acorn includes tools to onboard new members, customize feeds, configure and run moderation services, and track community growth through analytics. Acorn allows communities to create starter packs with suggested follows for newcomers and provides reputation systems using custom badges and awards.
Acorn provides tools for policing bots and trolls and allows communities to define moderation policies.
Acorn provides tools to manage reporting flow, take down accounts, ban accounts, or remove posts. Acorn allows community creators to build feeds focused on specific topics and create tabs for announcements, events, or resources. Acorn’s analytics track member growth, feed activity, and engagement patterns.
