Bluesky’s 2024 moderation report exhibits ho...

Bluesky skilled explosive progress final 12 months, , necessitating that the platform ramp up its moderation efforts. In its lately launched moderation report for 2024, Bluesky mentioned it grew by about 23 million customers, leaping from 2.9 million customers to almost 26 million. And, its moderators obtained 17 instances the variety of person stories they bought in 2023 — 6.48 million in 2024 in comparison with 358,000 the earlier 12 months.

The majority of those stories 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” strategy in an try to crack down on it. On the time, it mentioned 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 specialise in explicit coverage areas, similar to devoted brokers for little one security,” it notes.

Different classes Bluesky says it obtained a whole lot of stories about embrace “unlawful and pressing points” and undesirable sexual content material. There have been additionally 726,000 stories marked as “different.” Bluesky says it complied with 146 requests from “regulation enforcement, governments, authorized companies” out of a complete of 238 final 12 months.

The platform plans on making some adjustments to the way in which stories and appeals are dealt with this 12 months that it says will “streamline person 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 enhance person reporting, as a rising community wants a number of detection strategies to quickly establish and tackle dangerous content material,” Bluesky says.