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Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by spiderfarmer »

Xiol wrote: post #10
wiredone wrote: post #6

“toxicity and inflammatory” does a lot of heavy lifting for Blueskys moderation team. i find it’s pretty toxic, in a militant way… that doesn’t get moderated of course. That’s “free expression” when it’s about topics blueskyers all agree on. waits to be called a nazi

What topics cause you the most problems?

The kind of topics that were popular in Germany circa 1939.

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by gary_0 »

I absolutely do not understand moving "report spam" under "report misleading". The UX for this is terrible. There are lots of bots posting SEO junk, at a rate and scale that definitely wastes resources, and now bsky has interfered with one of the signals it should be using to combat the problem.

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by kattagarian »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #5
vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

How many are daily active users? I can’t find that info.

You can find more details here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by bakugo »

vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

A lot of people joined in late 2024, resulting in a peak of around 2.7M daily users, but most of those users ended up leaving soon after, likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time.

It doesn't seem to be as bad anymore, a quick glance at the public feed suggests that the percentage of political posts has gone down, but considering how many times the word "toxic" appears in this linked blogpost, I'm guessing they're still banning anyone who expresses the "wrong" opinions, so the userbase is unlikely to grow much further in the future. It seems to have plateaued at around 1.2M daily likers.

Source for the stats: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by swed420 »

bakugo wrote: post #15
vladms wrote: post #3

Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.

A lot of people joined in late 2024, resulting in a peak of around 2.7M daily users, but most of those users ended up leaving soon after, likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time. It doesn't seem to be as bad anymore, a quick glance at the public feed suggests that the percentage of political posts has gone down, but considering how many times the word "toxi…

> likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time.

The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has. At least not in a self-aware sense.

Maybe you meant to say liberal, to which I'd agree.

That's not to say there isn't a "left" or "far left" on Bluesky, but there's no way it's a majority.

I agree echo chambers are a problem there, which is why I only posted there briefly before leaving. One feature that seemed to exacerbate the formation of echo chambers was users sharing and blindly trusting mass block lists to silence things they didn't want to hear (leftists and liberals alike).

Re: Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

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Post by direwolf20 »

gary_0 wrote: post #13

I absolutely do not understand moving "report spam" under "report misleading". The UX for this is terrible. There are lots of bots posting SEO junk, at a rate and scale that definitely wastes resources, and now bsky has interfered with one of the signals it should be using to combat the problem.

Maybe they're paying bsky. Occam's razor.
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