Bluesky experienced tremendous growth in 2024, going from just under 3 million users to almost 26 million. That’s an order of magnitude growth, and puts them at only an order of magnitude of size behind X. That growth, of course, brings challenges and Bluesky’s 2024 moderation report illustrates some of them.

In 2024, Bluesky moderators took down 66,308 accounts, and automated tooling took down 35,842 accounts for reasons such as spam and bot networks. Mods took down 6,334 records (posts, lists, feed etc.) while automated systems removed 282.

Also interesting: The majority of legal requests came from Germany, U.S., Brazilian, and Japanese law enforcement agencies.