Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M
Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results …
Context & Ripple Effects
Bluesky’s prior moderation disclosure recorded more than 23 million users, 6.48 million reports and a moderation team of roughly 100, making this first transparency report a meaningful new benchmark for how its safety operation is scaling alongside the network. its 2024 moderation baseline also makes the latest figures comparable rather than isolated.
The company had already described pilots aimed at abuse, spam and other bad actors. Those earlier trust-and-safety initiatives now sit within a more formal public accounting of outcomes, increasing the visibility of whether operational capacity keeps pace with growth.
First-order effects
- Bluesky gives users, researchers and prospective participants a public baseline for its Trust & Safety workload: 9.97 million user reports alongside a 41.2 million-user network.
- The report raises the accountability bar for Bluesky’s moderation operation, which must now explain its actions and results against disclosed growth and report-volume metrics.
Second-order effects
- The scale of incoming reports makes moderation capacity—people, processes and tooling—a more central operating constraint for Bluesky as the network expands.
- Other social and decentralized-network services gain a more concrete reference point for public safety disclosures, while users can better compare stated moderation commitments with reported outcomes.
Third-order effects
- If recurring disclosures become standard, trust and safety shifts further from a behind-the-scenes function to a measurable product and governance capability that influences platform credibility.
- The pattern points toward social platforms being judged not only on audience growth but on whether their safety systems scale transparently with participation and abuse reports.
The trend: Social platforms are increasingly turning moderation transparency into a core measure of operational maturity as their user bases scale.