Aaron Rodericks
@aaron.bsky.team
Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety. Automation enabled on interactions - abuse will generate auto-blocks. https://aaronrodericks.com
I don’t often mute terms but trying to get the following in my area is a lost cause so it makes me sad. Sad and hungry.
The mod inbox is finally out, and I'm happy we got it over the line! There's still a lot more work to do, since it's a surprisingly complicated bit of software on the back end, and it has a number of limits at this stage.
Bluesky@bsky.app · 2d agoThe moderation inbox is now available to all users! Read this thread to learn more:
Super interesting tool shared by @samidh.bsky.social though the main limitation is that it reads the rules rather than looks for enforcement. Still amazing as a cross platform view! simonkarg.github.io/platform-rul...
Would it stay up?
Test statements, and your own text, judged by an AI model against every version of each platform's hate speech rule.
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While I’m out this week, wanted to briefly log in to share how excited I am to have the mod inbox launching. It’s a big step for user transparency, and the average user will have far more insight into mod actions on Bluesky. Both on their reports and actions taken against them.
Bluesky@bsky.app · 2w agoNew in beta: the moderation inbox. Now you can see the reports you've made, and find out what happened to the content you reported, right in the Bluesky app. Notices about your account and appeals live there too.
Latest ozone release contains some security patches and an exciting new custom actions feature which allows you to create a chain of events and dispatch them in one click thanks to @jeffwithag.net 's brilliant work please upgrade github.com/bluesky-soci...
Release v0.1.111 · bluesky-social/ozone
What's Changed Custom Actions by @gcwill70 in #597 fix: cache custom actions config by @gcwill70 in #639 show queue name in report row by @gcwill70 in #640 fix missing rows in workspace by @gcwill...
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SW friends, OnlyFans and Fansly profile links should work now! Refresh or force-quit and reopen your app a couple times so you get the update
alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · 3w agosome folks reported not being able to use certain adult-focused platforms (like onlyfans and fansly) — there was an internal miscommunication and these were accidentally added to the list of disallowed domains. this is now fixed! but you may need to refresh your app to get the update. 💙
20K people have added 60K profile links in the first 24 hours! we pushed an update with some bug fixes and will keep polishing. thanks all for the feedback.
alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · 3w agoplease feed the artists. there's a green button now
This is pretty exciting news (previously you had to run all your content through a model per policy which is a giant pain). Ironically even though nearly all of our decisions are made by humans I’ve been getting complaints on our ‘bot’ decisions for years.
Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're shipping CoPE-B-S1, an open-weight decision model tuned for safety use cases. It's a significant step forward for our CoPE family of models in a few ways. A thread: blog.zentropi.ai/meet-cope-b-...
For anybody old enough to remember an "iPad" is like a big iPhone Duo that doesn't fold in half unless you *really* want it to.
Bluesky@bsky.app · 3w agoAlso new in today’s v1.136 update: iPad support! One of our most-requested features is finally here in beta. Try out the Bluesky app on your iPad, and if you see anything off, let us know under Settings > Beta features.
v1.136 is live! Introducing: Profile links We want independent writers, artists, developers, and creators to be able to build and fund sustainable projects on Bluesky. Help your followers know how to support you by adding buttons for Patreon, Ko-fi, your newsletter or website, and more.
It is moves like this that directly position a company’s policies, hiring, and culture much closer to the administration that should be a real concern to folks.
Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is wrong. Joel was NOT a MAGA fan he was an old school GOP person. And the fact that he’s being replaced by Dina McCormick, former Trump adviser, tells you all you need to know about where Facebook is betting.
New report by @citizenlab.ca exposes an ad tech firm that helps spyware companies to profile+target millions of people around the world, incl. in the US and EU. Regulators and companies like Google & Microsoft need to take urgent action to stop these abuses @kevincollier.bsky.social @nbcnews.com
Tbh while not identical, this isn’t that far off from Chinese pressure to shut down Rightscon…
Aaron Rodericks@aaron.bsky.team · last mo.1) on a pure evidence base the US has repeatedly engaged in information operations. You can even find procurement examples to manipulate youth in Iraq. Obviously with cases like stuxnet - you know there’s milder stuff.
1) on a pure evidence base the US has repeatedly engaged in information operations. You can even find procurement examples to manipulate youth in Iraq. Obviously with cases like stuxnet - you know there’s milder stuff.
Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · last mo.And there it is #disinfo2026
A little scoop before Oct 7, when ICANN publishes 1,000+ applications for new top-level domains: one of them is .bsky! It's a long road (18 to 24 months), but if it goes through, handles like alice.bsky become possible.
We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.
Between this and the enigma machine (that I haven't read in detail), I wonder how long it will take a combo of quantum + ai to start really making a lot of current day cryptography obsolete.
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · last mo.Astra broke a Napoleon cipher from a single image, given 6 hours and a goal. Humans couldn’t do that in over 200 years carter.church/writeups/the...
In the interests of transparency, since people will create their own narratives of persecution around the auto-blocker. Here is a sample of the data that I ran an AI query just to look for patterns of abuse across the site, the following is the language that will result in an auto-block. 1/4
There’s a paradox of entitlement where folks demand better service, response time, and customisation to their tastes from smaller rather than larger providers. That only really works when the price is higher and the volume is much lower for those providers. 1/6
Automated block actions on my account, so that I can stay Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. TBH it was well overdue.
One particularly puzzling thing I’ve noticed living in Ireland is that people are fairly prudish, which is totally fine.
I was poking at Jaz's Atlas tool. atlas.jazco.dev and was wondering why we had 3 adult clusters. I zoomed in, only to find the following (kobold fantasies), and decided I'm probably better off not knowing more.
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
atlas.jazco.dev