Bluesky is developing anti-harassment features such as “restricting the creation of multiple accounts for the purpose of harassment” and “automatically hiding malicious replies” – GIGAZINE

Bluesky has revealed that it is working on developing features to combat malicious users, such as “detecting users who create multiple accounts and engage in harassing behavior” and “quickly deleting spam and fake accounts.”

Bluesky’s Current Efforts on Trust and Safety – Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/09-18-2024-trust-safety-update

◆Detection of users who create multiple accounts and engage in harassing behavior
According to Bluesky, abusive users are demonstrating “endless creativity” by creating multiple accounts to evade moderation. Bluesky is developing a feature to automatically detect and manage multiple malicious accounts created by the same user as a measure against malicious users.

◆Detecting Harmful Replies
Bluesky has a feature to report malicious posts. After analyzing user reports, it was found that the place where users were most affected was “replies.” In order to curb harassment using replies, development is underway on a feature that “automatically detects malicious replies and reduces their visibility within the app.” In addition, if a user repeatedly sends malicious replies, their account will be suspended.

◆Quick removal of spam and fake accounts
Bluesky’s moderation team is working to detect fake accounts that are committing fraud, but since fraud can be completed in a matter of minutes, human detection is not always possible. Bluesky is developing a function to automatically detect “fake accounts,” “fraudulent accounts,” and “spam accounts,” and aims to complete the process from automatic detection to moderator deletion within a few seconds.

◆ Interact with users who violate the rules within the app
For now, Bluesky contacts users who violate its rules via email, but it says that in the coming months, violation notifications will be integrated into the app.

◆ Regional content moderation
The legal restrictions on social media posts vary by country and region, and the content that is considered illegal also differs. For this reason, when Bluesky receives a request from a court or government to remove content, it will only restrict content for “users in a specific region” rather than “all Bluesky users worldwide.”

◆Video moderation
Bluesky officially released the video posting function on September 12, 2024. The video posting function is subject to moderation, such as “video posting function is only available to users who have completed email address verification” and “child sexual abuse content and illegal content are scanned and deleted.”

Finally, video posting function will be added to Bluesky, target users will be gradually expanded – GIGAZINE

◆ Suppressing harassment using lists
Like X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky allows you to organize multiple users into a “list” and make the list public to other users. In addition, Bluesky also allows you to create and share a “list of blocked users.” Until now, if there was a problem with the blocked users list, the only solution was to “delete the entire list,” but from now on, it will be possible to “delete specific users from the list.”