Hi folks, for about an hour and a half this morning, a couple of new rules had a mistake in their logic, resulting in a few thousand labels being emitted that should not have been. We are in the process of reversing these labels. Thank you for your patience.

And we're back up. Thank you for bearing with us while we migrated our backend off of Digital Ocean.

Skywatch Blue@skywatch.blue · 4w ago

Hi folks, we're going to be offline for a bit this evening while we migrate our hosting. You may have trouble reporting during that period, but we will be back online before long.

Hi folks, we're going to be offline for a bit this evening while we migrate our hosting. You may have trouble reporting during that period, but we will be back online before long.

introducing my @atproto.nyc hack project: troposphere (the layer at which birds fly) it's a viable alternative to Ozone that's designed to work with Coop, so you can use Coop's UI for review queues, case management, automatic actions, auditing, metrics, and child safety! github.com/julietshen/t...

GitHub - julietshen/troposphere: A self-hostable alternative to Ozone designed to work with Coop

A self-hostable alternative to Ozone designed to work with Coop - julietshen/troposphere

github.com

step 1: @moderation.blacksky.app (hide rude, seriously, complaints about it are wrong) @moderation.blacksky.app @skywatch.blue @moderation.northsky.social @stechlab-labels.bsky.social @aimod.social soon: @neatopause.tngl.sh (will target bots first) you can report accounts to any of them.

Just a note that if you use the TERF label, you should also use the intolerance label, as that catches far more folks for transphobia.

Alright, we should be back up and running. Thank you for your patience!

Skywatch Blue@skywatch.blue · 4mo ago

Hi all! Skywatch automation is currently down as we deal with some scaling issues. We hope to have it back up in short order, but in the meantime, you may see content that is typically labeled on your timeline. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Hi all! Skywatch automation is currently down as we deal with some scaling issues. We hope to have it back up in short order, but in the meantime, you may see content that is typically labeled on your timeline. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

We would like to raise two proposals to our users. The first, is the depreciation of the "Disinformation Network Label". This label is confusing in combination with fringe media and we are proposing depreciation:

We appreciate that there are apparently quite a few german speaking accounts which follow us, but regretfully, we don't have the language or cultural competency to label accounts and posts that are in German, or pertain to German politics at this time.

This is so cool - @skywatch.blue wrote up how Skywatch uses Osprey and why Osprey is helpful. Huge thanks for open sourcing some Osprey tools! Osprey sidebars for batch analysis: github.com/skywatch-bsk... Claude skills to use with Osprey: github.com/skywatch-bsk... github.com/roostorg/osp...

Fixed a broken rule and we should catch the accounts reposting 100s of users in a go now.

Folks: Please stop reporting @attie.ai. This is out of scope for us.

PDS hosters: folks should not have PDS_INVITE_REQUIRED=false in their config unless they know what they are doing. at a minimum you need CAPTCHAs on all signup routes, to block/disable the createAccount API flow, etc. we know this should be smoother.

I've realized I've been telling PDS admins how they can tackle these spam accounts from being created on their PDS, but just realized I never explained that as the end user, YOU can also hide them from your views with @skywatch.blue. Wrote how below.

Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · 7mo ago

If you subscribe to this labeler and select the label "Platform Abuse & Manipulation" and set it to "hide" it should get most of them hopefully and shouldn't show them. This labeler does a really good job of catching them quickly. It's what labeled it in my picture bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Been inundated by spam / scammer accounts lately? We've recently added some labels to help clarify why accounts get labeled: Bulk Following, Engagement Abuse / Hacking and Spam. We also encourage you to use our Platform Manipulation label!

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · 7mo ago

Okay, so caveating this by saying I'm not @conspirator0.bsky.social and nowhere near as expert. The operation has two main arms: the Abdelfattah cell (~877 accounts) and the Mahmouds Family cell (~124 accounts). Similar templates, but different infrastructure and different coordination methods.

FYI: the automod is currently lagging behind substantially. It’s slowingly catching up, but will probably be another few hours

Thank you for running a great labeler! tangled.org/baileytownse...

baileytownsend.dev/label-watcher

PDS Admin tool make it easier to moderate your PDS with labels

tangled.org

Reminder, if you run a PDS, you can tail @skywatch.blue with @baileytownsend.dev's label-watcher, and you can can get alerted when we apply an inauthentic-fundraising, spam, bulk-following, engagement-abuse, or platform-manipulation label to an account on your PDS.

@nora.zone you haven't been labeled in almost a year, other than the bluesky-elder label.

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Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

Hi all, we're switching our backend auto moderation platform up. This will allow us to match on more complex patterns and combinations and hopefully increase our accuracy / reduce false positives. In the short term, bear with us as we dial in the new rulesets!

Stop reporting communists and claiming they're MAGA accounts with absolutely no proof (and no, disagreeing with you does not count as proof).

Be aware that there are accounts attempting to steal session keys. This particular method won’t work using the Bluesky app for a couple of reasons, but third party apps may be vulnerable to similar attempts. We will attempt to automatically label these as Platform Manipulation.

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · 9mo ago

Is this an attempt to do what I think it's attempting to do?

We have updated the Sports Betting label to “Sports Betting and Prediction Markets”. Posts containing links to prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket will now be labeled and can be muted by toggling your labeler preferences.

And we're back, thank you for your patience!

Skywatch Blue@skywatch.blue · 10mo ago

Hi all, our backend is down and we're not sure why, so if you're receiving errors with appears and reporting, that's why. More updates as we figure out what broke.

Hi all, our backend is down and we're not sure why, so if you're receiving errors with appears and reporting, that's why. More updates as we figure out what broke.

some might know how @roost.tools is approaching open safety tool development, but many more may not! @annebdh.bsky.social lays it all out here, including our governance structure, how people can get involved, and how working in the open doesn't mean more abuse! roost.tools/blog/open-by...

Open by Design: ROOST's Approach to Safety Tool Development

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

roost.tools

We've introduced a new label and associated blocklist: Intolerance. We have also depreciated the Dehumanizing Rhetoric and Discriminatory Language labels in favor of this one, which will capture a broader swath of behavior that users want out of their timelines.

A general reminder that the labels do what they say on the box. There are very few new false positives being added to the MAGA list and most folks are discovering accounts that were labeled months ago that have not yet been discovered.