2025-05-23
We're excited that verification badges have made it easier to quickly recognize authentic accounts, especially in moments of breaking news. — Now, we're expanding our roll-out. Notable and authentic accounts can apply for verification or to become a Trusted Verifier via the form linked in our blog. …
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Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others
Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service.
2025-01-18
In 2024, Bluesky grew from 2.9M to 25.9M users. With this growth came anticipated challenges in scaling Trust & Safety, from adding workstreams to adapting to new harms. — In our newly published 2024 Moderation Report, we share details on what the year looked like for our Trust & Safety team.
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Bluesky 2024 moderation report: Bluesky gained 23M+ users, its moderation team grew to ~100, and its moderation service received 6.48M reports, up 17x from 2023
This is what failing at your job looks like, @aaron.bsky.team. — So, ya know, thanks for the heads up. [embedded post] Trisha Soncini Lane / @tslwhidbey : I seriously don't like...
2024-12-01
4/ Parody, satire, or fan accounts are allowed on Bluesky, but they must clearly label themselves in both the display name and bio to help others know the account isn't official. Accounts with only one of these elements will receive an impersonation label.
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Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger
Parody and fan accounts will have to clearly label their profiles. — Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to be …
2024-03-13
We're investing in safety from two angles. — 1. We've built our own moderation team dedicated to providing around-the-clock coverage to uphold our community guidelines.
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Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week
Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it's open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets individuals and teams collaboratively review and label content on the network.
Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online. Today, we're open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network. — Later this week, we're opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
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Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week
Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it's open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets individuals and teams collaboratively review and label content on the network.
2. We recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to moderation—no single company can get online safety right for every culture and community in the world. — We've also been building an ecosystem that gives communities power to create their own spaces, with their own norms and preferences.
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Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week
Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it's open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets individuals and teams collaboratively review and label content on the network.
2023-12-02
Another in-progress feature coming soon is reply controls, so users can set who can reply to their posts — for example, only people you follow, users on a certain list, etc.
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Bluesky rolls out “more advanced” automated moderation tools, along with moderation lists, which let users mute or block many users at once, user lists, more
Some features that we've recently released: — • User Lists and Moderation Lists — add users to generic lists, or add them to moderation lists that you can easily mute or block. — • Sync Moderation Preferences between devices — • Remove adult content labels on posts that do not contain images
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Bluesky rolls out “more advanced” automated moderation tools, along with moderation lists, which let users mute or block many users at once, user lists, more
We're also adding back the ability to report your own posts for mislabeled content. This will help the moderation team fix incorrect labels. — In the meantime, other accounts can submit reports on your behalf. Please add details to the report for a wrong label. We will be improving this in-app copy.
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Bluesky rolls out “more advanced” automated moderation tools, along with moderation lists, which let users mute or block many users at once, user lists, more
This week, we're deploying more advanced automated tooling to flag content that violates the Community Guidelines to our moderation team. — We'll iterate on this so that mods can review offensive content, spam, etc. without any user seeing it first. That said, your reports help keep the network safe!
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