Dispatches from the world of Trust and Safety at Bluesky - explaining the nuances and challenges of safety at scale. Personal notes of Aaron Rodericks - T&S Lead @ Bluesky
Moderating With Humans, For Humans When I joined Bluesky, one of my first promises was that we would get things wrong. We're a small and well-intentioned group doing our best to make social media work in less-than-ideal times. We make thousands of moderation decisions every day. Most work out fine—but not all. That's why I'm writing this series: to pull back the curtain on the inherently imperfect…
Oct 8, 2025 One of the hardest things about writing on a microblogging service is context collapse, especially when it comes to complex issues — you reply to one person, others take it out of context, and suddenly there are 30 different interpretations of what you meant. To try something different, I’ll start using Leaflet (leaflet.pub) — a blogging tool that runs on the same open protocol as…