Bluesky’s 2024 moderation report reveals how...

Bluesky skilled explosive development final yr, , necessitating that the platform ramp up its moderation efforts. In its not too long ago launched moderation report for 2024, Bluesky stated it grew by about 23 million customers, leaping from 2.9 million customers to just about 26 million. And, its moderators obtained 17 instances the variety of consumer reviews they acquired in 2023 — 6.48 million in 2024 in comparison with 358,000 the earlier yr.

The majority of those reviews have been associated to “harassment, trolling or intolerance,” spam and deceptive content material (together with impersonation and misinformation). The presence of accounts posing as different folks within the wake of Bluesky’s reputation spike, and the platform with a “extra aggressive” method in an try to crack down on it. On the time, it stated it had quadrupled its moderation group. The brand new report says Bluesky’s moderation group has grown to about 100, and hiring is ongoing. “Some moderators focus on explicit coverage areas, reminiscent of devoted brokers for baby security,” it notes.

Different classes Bluesky says it obtained numerous reviews about embrace “unlawful and pressing points” and undesirable sexual content material. There have been additionally 726,000 reviews marked as “different.” Bluesky says it complied with 146 requests from “legislation enforcement, governments, authorized corporations” out of a complete of 238 final yr.

The platform plans on making some adjustments to the best way reviews and appeals are dealt with this yr that it says will “streamline consumer communication,” like offering customers with updates about actions it has taken on content material they’ve reported and, additional down the road, letting customers enchantment takedown selections immediately within the app. Moderators took down 66,308 accounts in 2024, whereas its automated techniques took down 35,842 spam and bot profiles. “Waiting for 2025, we’re investing in stronger proactive detection techniques to enrich consumer reporting, as a rising community wants a number of detection strategies to quickly determine and handle dangerous content material,” Bluesky says.