Beyond moderation: labelers for security/safe browsing, existing services to use · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1595

Towards Sustainable Moderation for 3rd Party ATProto Development

I had the chance to chat with Ronen and Wesley from semble.so at the ATProto Boston meetup last week. They mentioned to me that a topic of discussion among non-Bluesky ATProto developers in Montreal was a growing recognition that they would need to start doing moderation on their services sooner rather than later. I was very quickly able to demonstrate that labeling third party lexicons was fairly simple. That said, I think tooling is the easy part—between larger organizations like Roost and Z...

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderation scenarios are starting to get attention. While the labeling system was released all the way back i...

ThisIsMissEm/icarus

AT Protocol labeler and moderation tool

Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderation scenarios are starting to get attention. While the labeling system was released all the way back i...

Labelwatch

Bluesky doesn’t have a single moderation team deciding what you see. Instead, it has labelers — and nobody’s watching the watchers. Labelwatch monitors every public labeler: who’s labeling, what they’re labeling, and whether their behavior is stable, bursty, or going dark.

Four Functional Quadrants for Trust & Safety Tools: Detection, Investigation, Review & Enforcement (DIRE) <div> <br> </div>

Public discourse and regulatory debates about online trust and safety have long been dominated by a focus on rules, not tools: preoccupied mostly by the questio

The Moderation article

The internet was antiblack from day one. A breakdown of AT Protocol's moderation stack and Blacksky's plan to build community-controlled protection.

On the coordination for better moderation systems

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge.

The Inexorable Push For Infrastructure Moderation

I’m grateful to Techdirt and the EFF for this series. There are so many legitimately difficult issues around content moderation at the application layer—that is, on (and usually by) pla…

Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media

Social media companies make important decisions about what counts as “problematic” content and how they will remove it. Some choose to moderate hashtags, blocking the results for certain tag searches and issuing public service announcements (PSAs) when users search for troubling terms. The hashtag has thus become an indicator of where problematic content can be found, but this has produced limited understandings of how such content actually circulates. Using pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) communities as a case study, this article explores the practices of circumventing hashtag moderation in online pro-ED communities. It shows how (1) untagged pro-ED content can be found without using the hashtag as a search mechanism; (2) users are evading hashtag and other forms of platform policing, devising signals to identify themselves as “pro-ED”; and (3) platforms’ recommendation systems recirculate pro-ED content, revealing the limitations of hashtag logics in social media content moderation.