A reminder that Signal will never reach out to you proactively, never send you a Signal message, and never ask for your verification code. The only way to correspond with Signal is via email ([email protected]) or the Signal Support Center (support.signal.org).

if you want to migrate from the 📌 feed over to the proper Saved Posts, try this little tool we cooked up:

(1/9) Sharing some thoughts on the recent age assurance regulation discussions across the world…

Community Guidelines consultation closes Aug 28 bsky.social/about/blog/0.... To date, we’ve received 12,000+ responses! 1/6

hi Bluesky! 🦋 i’ve been chosen as the new head of product here at Bluesky HQ! and i couldn’t be more excited to hack with this incredibly talented team on making this site better for everyone.

Blacksky Personal Data Server is now the 4th largest server on the network.

Haha, so chatgpt's new agent feature has a warning that if you send the agent to do stuff, it may give bad people access to your data. Necessary, I guess, but if this is true it'd make it fairly useless, no? I mean to me the main use case would be giving it access to sites requiring login.

Hey if you missed it at #TrustCon yesterday, our live Ctrl-Alt-Speech is now on the podcast feed! With special guests @aagh.bsky.social and @ashkhen.bsky.social podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

When tech executives rewrite rules for political expediency and financial gain, the problem cannot be treated merely as a failure of policy or process, writes Dean Jackson.

Bluesky is hiring 👉 bsky.social/about/join Roles include: - data scientist - feed algo eng - data engineer + others (click the link!)

Verification update: In April we announced a new form of verification to help you know which voices are authentic and noteworthy. We continue the verification process through Bluesky and our trusted verifiers - which distribute power of verification beyond Bluesky to other notable entities 1/5:

personal update: today is my last day with the Bluesky team! this is bittersweet news to share, but the great thing about an open network is you never really have to leave. I’ll be rooting for Bluesky and atproto from the outside 🫡💙

Had a great convo with John about my background, the trade offs required during our rapid growth phase, and scaling T&S with limited resources. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeG...

Verification form is now open!

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification. The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

Lists are a feature that allow users to create groups of accounts, for example, for curation. However, we’ve also seen lists be used for harassment.

Happy April Fools' Day! If you want better features than this, forward our Head of Product JD to the most talented product lead you know... jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

2024: we're a small team of ~20 😁😎😀 2025: we're a small team of ~20... 😮‍💨😓😪 join the team! we're hiring across operations, engineering, product, and more. also more job postings to come

We’re hiring a Head of Product! This is the perfect role for a creative, strategic, and experienced product leader who wants to help shape the future of social. Apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

1/6 We're seeing an uptick in scams pretending to be Bluesky or @aaron.bsky.team. These scammers are targeting artists via DMs, trying to take you off-app. Our moderation team is reviewing reports of these scammers and will take down their accounts. Here are some important reminders:

I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky. I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast. Short 🧵 1/n

An article by @samlai.bsky.social @yoyoel.com @noupside.bsky.social @klonick.bsky.social @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy and @aaron.bsky.team?!?!?! Basically the Wu-Tang Clan of the fediverse right here... Well played, @carnegieendowment.org

I’ll be speaking at the Trust and Safety Summit in London next week - www.iqpc.com/events-trust.... My talk will focus on stackable moderation and empowering users with moderation tools, and how Bluesky's approach differs from legacy platforms.

Job details here ✨🐓

📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5) With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control. • 3 minute videos! • A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users • Mute accounts more quickly

Version 1.99 is in app store review! It's got some highly requested features in there that I'm happy we got to hit. For instance, @samuel.bsky.team implemented the ability to mute an account from the post menu. Also something about video? not sure (shout out to @jaz.bsky.social)

🏷️ devs and mod service operators! 🏷️ got a proposal up about moderation report routing. this is basically a small update to let moderation services ("labelers") declare what kind of reports they are willing to receive. implementation on this is under way and we hope to ship it soon

@bsky.app joins the fight against child sexual abuse material by becoming a Member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The move comes as the ‘insidious spread’ of child sexual abuse imagery reaches record levels across the internet. Read more: www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...

Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice.

Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend! Get a user flair from @nflair.bsky.social to show which team you're cheering for. Here's how:

Woot!

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.

In the past month alone, over 12M people joined Bluesky, with daily active users growing 10x. We received more reports in two days than in all of last year, and have integrated new systems and quadrupled our moderation team to try and keep up. Sometimes, we have to work quickly to correct errors.

Had a great chat with Katie on the challenges of T&S scaling at Bluesky. Take a listen! PS: I just call myself head of T&S since there’s no point in title inflation in a startup.

When Spotify wants to remind you that parenting has consumed your life.

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

Here's a conversation between @caseynewton.bsky.social, @jstarr.bsky.social, and myself on Bluesky's surge in users, the challenges of scaling up moderation as we grow, and our collaboration with Thorn on enhancing child safety. www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

Welcome to Michael D. Higgins to Bluesky!

Nice!

You know, when I started this job, I thought 3 million users was a lot...

Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

Had someone ask if I knew of any "intro to Bluesky content moderation systems" for the new folks, and I realized I don't actually know of anything that covers the full range of the systems that are available, so let me take a stab at it!

hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!

Wasn’t aware that we had a U.S. politics labeller on the network before. I know folks have requested this feature.

If you're wondering how things have been going at the Posting Factory Over 100k new users per day since November 5th and no sign of slowing. ~10M follows per day (+400%) ~18M likes per day (+46%) ~3M posts per day (+30%) Firehose traffic regularly over 500 evt/sec for most of the day now.

Sounds like an interesting listen!

Not at all what was envisioned when labels were launched on Bluesky but the design choice to give users a bit more freedom to experiment results in interesting outcomes like this Taylor Swift Eras labeller bsky.app/profile/eras... 1/4

Hit my "X questions in a day" threshold for an explainer thread, so: the Bluesky automated image labeler (the thing that sticks the adult content/sexually suggestive/non-sexual nudity/graphic media label on images that don't already include it) and what to do if it fucks up

📢 App Version 1.93 is rolling out now (1/5) This release includes the thread composer, improved tooling for adding content warnings to your own posts, and other improvements and fixes. Open this thread for more details. 🧵