Bluesky releases its first public report, noting the increase in user reports and regulatory requirements

Bluesky released its first public report this week documenting the steps taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives, such as age verification compliance, influencer performance monitoring, automated labeling, and more.

The social media startup – a competitor to X and Threads – has grown by nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million, including accounts hosted both on Bluesky’s infrastructure and those using its infrastructure as part of a social network based on Bluesky’s AT Protocol.

Last year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform, which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Bluesky. Of those, 235 million posts contain media, accounting for 62% of all media posts shared on Bluesky to date.

The company also reported a fivefold increase in legal requests from law enforcement agencies, government regulators, and law enforcement by 2025, with 1,470 requests, up from 238 requests in 2024.

While the company has previously shared test reports for 2023 and 2024, this is the first time it has included a full report. The new report addresses other out-of-balance areas, such as compliance and account verification information, among other things.

Rating reports from users increased by 54%

Compared to 2024, when Bluesky saw a 17x increase in rating reports, the company this year reported a 54% increase, from 6.48 million user reports in 2024 to 9.97 million in 2025.

Although the number jumped, Bluesky noted that growth “tracked closely” the 57% user growth that occurred over the same period.

About 3% of users, or 1.24 million users, sent reports in 2025, with the top categories “misleading” (including spam) at 43.73% of the total, “harassment” at 19.93%, and sexual content at 13.54%.

The catch-all “other” category included 22.14% of reports that did not fall under these categories, or others such as violence, child safety, violation of site rules, or self-harm, accounted for a much smaller percentage.

Of the 4.36 million “misleading” category reports, spammers accounted for 2.49 million reports.

Meanwhile, hate speech accounted for the majority of the 1.99 million “harassment” reports, with about 55,400 reports. Other areas that have seen activity include targeted harassment (about 42,520 reports), trolling (29,500 reports), and doxxing (about 3,170 reports).

However, Bluesky said most reports of “harassment” include those that fall into the gray area of ​​antisocial behavior, which may include profanity, but does not fall into other categories, such as hate speech.

Most of the reports of sexual content (1.52 million) related to misrepresentation, Bluesky says, which means that adult content is not properly marked with metadata – tags that allow users to control their moderation experience using Bluesky’s tools.

A small number of reports focused on unconsented intimate photos (about 7,520), abusive content (about 6,120), and deepfakes (over 2,000).

Reports focused on violence (24,670 total) were broken down into subcategories such as threats or incitement (approximately 10,170 reports), glorification of violence (6,630 reports), and extremist content (3,230 reports).

In addition to user reports, Bluesky’s automated system has flagged 2.54 million potential breaches.

One area where Bluesky reported success involved a decrease in daily reports of anti-social behavior on the site, which dropped by 79% after implementing a system that identified toxic responses and reduced their visibility by placing them after more clicks, similar to what X did.

Bluesky also saw a drop in monthly user reports, with reports per 1,000 monthly active users falling 50.9% from January to December.

In addition to moderation, Bluesky noted that it removed 3,619 accounts of suspected influential activities, possibly those operating in Russia.

Increasing reductions, legal claims

The company said last fall that it was getting aggressive about its controls and usage, and that seems to be true.

Last year, Bluesky dropped 2.44 million items by 2025, including accounts and content. Last year, Bluesky dropped 66,308 accounts, and its automation dropped 35,842 accounts.

Moderators also took down 6,334 records, while automated systems removed 282.

Bluesky also issued 3,192 temporary suspensions in 2025, and 14,659 outright removals for violations. Most of the permanent suspensions focused on accounts that engaged in fraudulent behavior, spam networks, and impersonation.

However, its report suggests that it prefers to label content over removing users. Last year, Bluesky used 16.49 million labels for content, up 200% year-on-year, while account downloads grew 104% from 1.02 million to 2.08 million. Most of the labels involve adult content and suggestive sex or nudity.