Bluesky released its first transparency report<\/a> this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, like age assurance compliance, monitoring influence operations, automated labeling, and more.<\/p>\n The social media startup \u2014 a rival to X and Threads\u00a0\u2014 grew nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million, which includes accounts hosted both on Bluesky\u2019s own infrastructure and those running their own infrastructure as part of the decentralized social network based on Bluesky\u2019s AT Protocol.<\/p>\n During the past year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform, which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky. Of those, 235 million posts contained media, accounting for 62% of all media posts shared on Bluesky to date.<\/p>\n The company also reported a fivefold increase in legal requests from law enforcement agencies, government regulators, and legal representatives in 2025, with 1,470 requests up from 2024\u2019s 238 requests.<\/p>\n While the company previously shared moderation reports in 2023<\/a> and 2024<\/a>, this is the first time it\u2019s put together a comprehensive transparency report. The new report tackles other areas outside of moderation, like regulatory compliance and account verification information, among other things.<\/p>\n Compared with 2024, when Bluesky saw a 17-times increase<\/a> in moderation reports, the company this year reported a 54% increase, going from 6.48 million user reports in 2024 to 9.97 million in 2025. <\/p>\n Though the number jumped, Bluesky noted that the growth \u201cclosely tracked\u201d its 57% user growth that occurred over the same period.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston, MA<\/span> Around 3% of the user base, or 1.24 million users, submitted reports in 2025, with the top categories being \u201cmisleading\u201d (which includes spam) at 43.73% of the total, \u201charassment\u201d at 19.93%, and sexual content at 13.54%. <\/p>\n A catch-all \u201cother\u201d category included 22.14% of the reports that didn\u2019t fall under these categories, or others like violence, child safety, breaking site rules, or self-harm, which accounted for much smaller percentages.<\/p>\n Within the \u201cmisleading\u201d category\u2019s 4.36 million reports, spam accounted for 2.49 million reports.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, hate speech accounted for the largest share of the 1.99 million \u201charassment\u201d reports, with about 55,400 reports. Other areas that saw activity included targeted harassment (about 42,520 reports), trolling (29,500 reports), and doxxing (about 3,170 reports).<\/p>\n However, Bluesky said that the majority of \u201charassment\u201d reports included those that fell into the gray area of anti-social behavior, which may include rude remarks, but didn\u2019t fit into the other categories, like hate speech. <\/p>\n Most of the sexual content reports (1.52 million) concerned mislabeling, Bluesky says, meaning that adult content was not properly marked with metadata \u2014 tags that allow users to control their own moderation experience using Bluesky\u2019s tools. <\/p>\n A smaller number of reports focused on non-consensual intimate imagery (about 7,520), abuse content (about 6,120), and deepfakes (over 2,000).<\/p>\n Reports focused on violence (24,670 in total) were broken down into sub-categories like threats or incitement (about 10,170 reports), glorification of violence (6,630 reports), and extremist content (3,230 reports).<\/p>\n In addition to user reports, Bluesky\u2019s automated system flagged 2.54 million potential violations. <\/p>\n One area where Bluesky reported success involved a decline in daily reports of anti-social behavior on the site, which dropped 79% after the implementation of a system that identified toxic replies and reduced their visibility by putting them behind an extra click, similar to what X does.<\/p>\n Bluesky also saw a drop in user reports month-over-month, with reports per 1,000 monthly active users declining 50.9% from January to December.<\/p>\n Outside of moderation, Bluesky noted it removed 3,619 accounts for suspected influence operations, most likely those operating from Russia. <\/p>\nModeration reports from users jump 54%<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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