Bluesky launched its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Belief & Security crew and the outcomes of different initiatives, like age-assurance compliance, monitoring of affect operations, automated labeling, and extra.
The social media startup — a rival to X and Threads — grew practically 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million customers to 41.2 million, which incorporates accounts hosted each on Bluesky’s personal infrastructure and people operating their very own infrastructure as a part of the decentralized social community based mostly on Bluesky’s AT Protocol.
In the course of the previous 12 months, customers made 1.41 billion posts on the platform, which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky. Of these, 235 million posts contained media, accounting for 62% of all media posts shared on Bluesky so far.
The corporate additionally reported a fivefold enhance in authorized requests from legislation enforcement businesses, authorities regulators, and authorized representatives in 2025, with 1,470 requests, up from 238 requests in 2024.
Whereas the corporate beforehand shared moderation stories in 2023 and 2024, that is the primary time it’s put collectively a complete transparency report. The brand new report tackles different areas outdoors of moderation, like regulatory compliance and account verification data, amongst different issues.
Moderation stories from customers leap 54%
In contrast with 2024, when Bluesky noticed a 17x enhance sparsely stories, the corporate this 12 months reported a 54% enhance, going from 6.48 million consumer stories in 2024 to 9.97 million in 2025.
Although the quantity jumped, Bluesky famous that the expansion “carefully tracked” its 57% consumer development that occurred over the identical interval.
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Round 3% of the consumer base, or 1.24 million customers, submitted stories in 2025, with the highest classes being “deceptive” (which incorporates spam) at 43.73% of the full, “harassment” at 19.93%, and sexual content material at 13.54%.
A catch-all “different” class included 22.14% of the stories that didn’t fall beneath these classes, or others like violence, baby security, breaking web site guidelines, or self-harm, which accounted for a lot smaller percentages.
Inside the “deceptive” class’s 4.36 million stories, spam accounted for two.49 million stories.
In the meantime, hate speech accounted for the most important share of the 1.99 million “harassment” stories, with about 55,400 stories. Different areas that noticed exercise included focused harassment (about 42,520 stories), trolling (29,500 stories), and doxxing (about 3,170 stories).
Nonetheless, Bluesky mentioned that almost all of “harassment” stories included those who fell into the grey space of delinquent conduct, which can embrace impolite remarks, however didn’t match into the opposite classes, like hate speech.
Many of the sexual content material stories (1.52 million) involved mislabeling, Bluesky says, which means that grownup content material was not correctly marked with metadata — tags that enable customers to regulate their very own moderation expertise utilizing Bluesky’s instruments.
A smaller variety of stories centered on nonconsensual intimate imagery (about 7,520), abuse content material (about 6,120), and deepfakes (over 2,000).
Studies centered on violence (24,670 in complete) have been damaged down into subcategories like threats or incitement (about 10,170 stories), glorification of violence (6,630 stories), and extremist content material (3,230 stories).
Along with consumer stories, Bluesky’s automated system flagged 2.54 million potential violations.
One space the place Bluesky reported success concerned a decline in every day stories of delinquent conduct on the positioning, which dropped 79% after the implementation of a system that recognized poisonous replies and decreased their visibility by placing them behind an additional click on, much like what X does.
Bluesky additionally noticed a drop in consumer stories month-over-month, with stories per 1,000 month-to-month energetic customers declining 50.9% from January to December.
Exterior of moderation, Bluesky famous it eliminated 3,619 accounts for suspected affect operations, almost certainly these working from Russia.
Will increase in takedowns, authorized requests
The corporate mentioned final fall it was getting extra aggressive about its moderation and enforcement, and that seems to be true.
Final 12 months, Bluesky took down 2.44 million objects in 2025, together with accounts and content material. The 12 months prior, Bluesky had taken down 66,308 accounts, and its automated tooling took down 35,842 accounts.
Moderators additionally took down 6,334 information, and automatic techniques eliminated 282.
Bluesky additionally issued 3,192 short-term suspensions in 2025, and 14,659 everlasting removals for ban evasion. Many of the everlasting suspensions have been centered on accounts participating in inauthentic conduct, spam networks, and impersonation.
Nonetheless, its report means that it prefers labeling content material greater than it does booting out customers. Final 12 months, Bluesky utilized 16.49 million labels to content material, up 200% year-over-year, whereas account takedown grew 104% from 1.02 million to 2.08 million. Many of the labeling concerned grownup and suggestive content material or nudity.
