Aaron Rodericks
@aaron.bsky.team
Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
One happy realization over the past day of wins is that this site can be a place where political magic happens.
This comes as a shock to folks on other sites who say we are in a filter bubble.
Makes it all the more important that non-billionare controlled spaces exist. Media diversity matters.
This comes as a shock to folks on other sites who say we are in a filter bubble.
Makes it all the more important that non-billionare controlled spaces exist. Media diversity matters.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One happy realization over the past day of wins is that this site can be a place where political magic happens.
This comes as a shock to folks on other sites who say we are in a filter bubble.
Makes it all the more important that non-billionare controlled spaces exist. Media diversity matters.
This comes as a shock to folks on other sites who say we are in a filter bubble.
Makes it all the more important that non-billionare controlled spaces exist. Media diversity matters.
I normally don't pay any attention to celebrity gossip - but as a former disinfo specialist, this case is 'the future' of what coordinated inauthentic messaging looks like. Don't look at Russia or China - they are looking at Hollywood dark PR firms for how to evolve.
The convoluted saga of Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, and It Ends With Us is still raging on social media, thanks to influencers.
Read more from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I normally don't pay any attention to celebrity gossip - but as a former disinfo specialist, this case is 'the future' of what coordinated inauthentic messaging looks like. Don't look at Russia or China - they are looking at Hollywood dark PR firms for how to evolve.
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Sharing some personal thoughts and feelings about the last weekend on the world's number one baseball app
100% cooked
Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sharing some personal thoughts and feelings about the last weekend on the world's number one baseball app
We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!
Trying to watch the user counter tick over to 40M as my kid tries to convince me that we should start trick or treating in the mornings to make the most of the time.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Trying to watch the user counter tick over to 40M as my kid tries to convince me that we should start trick or treating in the mornings to make the most of the time.
39,983,508 bsky-users.theo.io
Bluesky User Counter
bsky-users.theo.io
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
39,983,508 bsky-users.theo.io
I’m impressed that scammers updated all their logo assets faster than we did as a company after the latest app update. The sheer evolutionary speed of spam/scams these days is insane.
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’m impressed that scammers updated all their logo assets faster than we did as a company after the latest app update. The sheer evolutionary speed of spam/scams these days is insane.
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Oh hi! You should check these out. Especially that Technical Recruiter role, there...
bsky.social/about/join
bsky.social/about/join
Jobs - Bluesky
View open positions at Bluesky
bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Oh hi! You should check these out. Especially that Technical Recruiter role, there...
bsky.social/about/join
bsky.social/about/join
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Totally wild to me that Irish politics ends up being #2 in trending on Bluesky. Congrats to Catherine Connolly on her win as the new Irish President and looking forward to Bluesky having more globally representative trends in the future!
October 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Totally wild to me that Irish politics ends up being #2 in trending on Bluesky. Congrats to Catherine Connolly on her win as the new Irish President and looking forward to Bluesky having more globally representative trends in the future!
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atmosphere devs! 🧑🚀
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
Protocol Check-in (Fall 2025) | Bluesky
We last shared a protocol roadmap back in March 2025, and wow does time fly. If we're being honest, we haven't tied a bow on as many of these threads as we would've hoped. Oh time, strength, cash, and...
docs.bsky.app
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
atmosphere devs! 🧑🚀
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
just published a protocol checkin: docs.bsky.app/blog/protoco...
tl;dr
expect to see a lot of updates from us in the next few months. we're hard at work on making AT easier to build on & ensuring the network remains a resilient foundation for the future of open social
Thought this was an interesting case on evolving speech norms, and the challenges of writing policy that covers emojis. This is something we struggled with at Twitter with racial abuse against footballers. In that when is a monkey or a banana emoji acceptable, and when is it intolerant speech.
How should Meta address evolving forms of hate speech used to avoid detection by its automated systems? The Oversight Board is reviewing two new cases on the use of monkey emojis to target Black people on Facebook and Instagram.
Find out more: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
Find out more: www.oversightboard.com/news/board-t...
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thought this was an interesting case on evolving speech norms, and the challenges of writing policy that covers emojis. This is something we struggled with at Twitter with racial abuse against footballers. In that when is a monkey or a banana emoji acceptable, and when is it intolerant speech.
Just broke the magic number at Bluesky — more than 8 hours of meetings in one day. 1/3
October 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Just broke the magic number at Bluesky — more than 8 hours of meetings in one day. 1/3
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Shout out to @laelaps.fyi and @heika.dog for being a guiding light of can-do community service.
dogpatch.press/2025/08/08/a...
dogpatch.press/2025/08/08/a...
Two years of anti-zoophile community moderation: Heika’s work with Laelaps on Bluesky
In Greek mythology, Laelaps is a dog that never fails to catch what it is hunting. On Bluesky, tens of thousands of users use the Laelaps anti-zoophile labeler. This volunteer-run project collects …
dogpatch.press
October 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Shout out to @laelaps.fyi and @heika.dog for being a guiding light of can-do community service.
dogpatch.press/2025/08/08/a...
dogpatch.press/2025/08/08/a...
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We're working on a redesign of the post interaction settings. What do we think? Open to suggestions on what we should add or remove here.
October 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We're working on a redesign of the post interaction settings. What do we think? Open to suggestions on what we should add or remove here.
I'll be trying out leaflet.pub moving forward to try to write longer form blogs on Trust and Safety so that I can explain things in a bit more depth.
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...
Context Collapse & T&S
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 suddenl...
leaflet.pub
October 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'll be trying out leaflet.pub moving forward to try to write longer form blogs on Trust and Safety so that I can explain things in a bit more depth.
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...
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Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
People often ask why we don’t act on off-platform evidence when investigating reports. Here’s an example of how complex that can get. 1/9
October 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
People often ask why we don’t act on off-platform evidence when investigating reports. Here’s an example of how complex that can get. 1/9
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tldr: go nuts, do your thing, fork our oss work, build a company on the protocol. you're a part of the network flourishing, so we're cheering you on.
Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky
Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.
bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
tldr: go nuts, do your thing, fork our oss work, build a company on the protocol. you're a part of the network flourishing, so we're cheering you on.
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blueksy video uploads are temporarily broken right now; probably impacting skylight etc as well.
we are working to fix the problem and expect them to be flowing soon
we are working to fix the problem and expect them to be flowing soon
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
blueksy video uploads are temporarily broken right now; probably impacting skylight etc as well.
we are working to fix the problem and expect them to be flowing soon
we are working to fix the problem and expect them to be flowing soon
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we're hiring a Product Engineer at @bsky.app!
social is changing quickly — our team is defining what comes next.
if you're a 10X React Native dev who wants to ship features millions use daily and help bring the joy back to social, get in touch:
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
social is changing quickly — our team is defining what comes next.
if you're a 10X React Native dev who wants to ship features millions use daily and help bring the joy back to social, get in touch:
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
Bluesky Jobs
Bluesky Jobs
jobs.gem.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
we're hiring a Product Engineer at @bsky.app!
social is changing quickly — our team is defining what comes next.
if you're a 10X React Native dev who wants to ship features millions use daily and help bring the joy back to social, get in touch:
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
social is changing quickly — our team is defining what comes next.
if you're a 10X React Native dev who wants to ship features millions use daily and help bring the joy back to social, get in touch:
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
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A bit of personal news for y’all.
Today is my last day as a member of the Bluesky team!
The past 2+ years building out Bluesky’s Infrastructure and Platform team and scaling the network from 100,000 -> 40,000,000 users have been the most intense and rewarding years of my life.
Today is my last day as a member of the Bluesky team!
The past 2+ years building out Bluesky’s Infrastructure and Platform team and scaling the network from 100,000 -> 40,000,000 users have been the most intense and rewarding years of my life.
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A bit of personal news for y’all.
Today is my last day as a member of the Bluesky team!
The past 2+ years building out Bluesky’s Infrastructure and Platform team and scaling the network from 100,000 -> 40,000,000 users have been the most intense and rewarding years of my life.
Today is my last day as a member of the Bluesky team!
The past 2+ years building out Bluesky’s Infrastructure and Platform team and scaling the network from 100,000 -> 40,000,000 users have been the most intense and rewarding years of my life.
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Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org
Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict
Navigate the challenging world of trust & safety amidst an unfolding armed conflict.
trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org
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New jobs on the jobs webbed site! bsky.social/about/join
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New jobs on the jobs webbed site! bsky.social/about/join