Bluesky published its first transparency report this week, documenting the steps taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, such as age insurance compliance, influence operations monitoring, automated labeling, and more.
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Over the past year, users have published 1.41 billion posts on the platform, representing 61% of all posts ever published on Bluesky. Of these, 235 million posts contained media, representing 62% of all media posts shared on Bluesky to date.
The company also reported a five-fold increase in legal requests from law enforcement agencies, government regulators and legal representatives in 2025, with 1,470 requests, compared to 238 requests in 2024.
While the company previously shared moderation reports in 2023 And 2024this is the first time he has written a comprehensive report on transparency. The new report addresses other areas outside of moderation, like regulatory compliance and account verification information, among others.
User moderation reports increase by 54%
Compared to 2024, where Bluesky saw a 17x increase in moderation reporting, the company reported a 54% increase this year, from 6.48 million user reports in 2024 to 9.97 million in 2025.
Although the number increased, Bluesky noted that the growth “closely tracked” the 57% growth in users that occurred during the same period.
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About 3% of the user base, or 1.24 million users, submitted reports in 2025, with the top categories being “misleading” (which includes spam) at 43.73% of the total, “harassment” at 19.93%, and sexual content at 13.54%.
A catch-all “other” category included 22.14% of reports that did not fall into these categories, or others such as violence, child safety, violation of site rules, or self-harm, which accounted for much smaller percentages.
Of the 4.36 million reports in the “misleading” category, spam accounted for 2.49 million reports.
At the same time, hate speech accounted for the largest share of the 1.99 million “harassment” reports, with around 55,400 reports. Other areas that have seen activity include targeted harassment (approximately 42,520 reports), trolling (29,500 reports), and doxxing (approximately 3,170 reports).
However, Bluesky said the majority of “harassment” reports included those that fell into the gray area of antisocial behavior, which can include crude remarks, but did not fit into other categories, such as hate speech.
According to Bluesky, most reports of sexual content (1.52 million) involved mislabeling, meaning adult content was not properly marked with metadata – tags that allow users to control their own moderation experience using Bluesky’s tools.
A smaller number of reports focused on non-consensual intimate images (around 7,520), abusive content (around 6,120) and deepfakes (over 2,000).
Reports focusing on violence (24,670 in total) were broken down into subcategories such as threats or incitement (around 10,170 reports), glorification of violence (6,630 reports), and extremist content (3,230 reports).
In addition to user reports, Bluesky’s automated system flagged 2.54 million potential violations.
One area where Bluesky reported success was in a drop in daily reports of antisocial behavior on the site, which dropped 79% after implementing a system that identified toxic responses and reduced their visibility by placing them behind an additional click, similar to what X does.
Bluesky also saw a decline in user reports month-over-month, with reports per 1,000 monthly active users decreasing by 50.9% from January to December.
Aside from any moderation, Bluesky reported removing 3,619 accounts for suspected influence operations, most likely those operating from Russia.
Increased withdrawals and legal requests
The company said last fall that it was become more aggressive on its moderation and application, and this appears to be true.
Last year, Bluesky removed 2.44 million items in 2025, including accounts and content. The year before, Bluesky removed 66,308 accounts and its automated tools removed 35,842.
Moderators also deleted 6,334 recordings and automated systems removed 282.
Bluesky also issued 3,192 temporary suspensions in 2025 and 14,659 permanent referrals for circumventing the ban. Most permanent suspensions were for accounts engaging in inauthentic behavior, spam networks, and impersonation.
However, its report suggests that it prefers to label content rather than kicking users out. Last year, Bluesky applied 16.49 million tags to content, an increase of 200% year-over-year, while account takedowns increased by 104%, from 1.02 million to 2.08 million. Most of the tags were for adult and suggestive content or nudity.
