Bluesky’s 20 full-time employees have been working around the clock to deal with the issues that come with hyper-growth: site outages, glitches in the code and content moderation issues.

Sweeping new age verification laws in the U.K. and U.S. aim to protect children—but critics warn they could undermine privacy, harm vulnerable users, and end the last remnants of online anonymity. Big ...

Credit: Bluesky. Social platform Bluesky is open-sourcing its moderation tool Ozone, allowing users to choose exactly how the content on their timelines is moderated.

Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has “no intention” of taking user content to train generative AI tools. However, it does use AI to power other parts of its platform.

Bluesky hired more engineers and content moderations, while its total number of users increased from about 50,000 at the end of April 2023, to over 3 million this month.

But that increase in business for Bluesky, which was started by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and is now owned by its CEO and employees, has forced the company to work harder to review content, the news ...

Bluesky's bolstering of its human workforce supplements what is often a complex and confusing world of automatic, AI-powered content moderation. In a follow-up thread, Bluesky noted issues with ...

Bluesky users didn't opt-in to such uses of their content, but neither is it expressly prohibited by Bluesky. The platform's firehose API is an "aggregated, chronological stream of all the public ...

Currently, Bluesky doesn’t require any third-party apps to use its geographic moderation labelers, which would force the apps to geolocate their users and then apply the appropriate regional ...