Bluesky is releasing its first transparency report, recognizing the rise of user reports and regulatory demands

Bluesky released his the first visual report this week I’m documenting what their Trust & Safety team did and the results of other features, such as age verification, performance monitoring, individual labeling, and more.

The launch of the TV – the competition of X and Threads – grew by almost 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million, which includes the accounts created by Bluesky’s and those who run their infrastructure as part of the social network established by Bluesky’s AT Protocol.

In the past year, users created 1.41 billion documents on the platform, which represents 61% of all documents created on Bluesky. Of these, 235 million articles contained media, accounting for 62% of all media distributed on Bluesky to date.

The company also reported a fivefold increase in legal requests by law enforcement agencies, government regulators, and legal representatives in 2025, with 1,470 requests, up from 238 requests in 2024.

While the company shared the management reports 2023 and 2024this is the first time that they have established a clear transparent report. The new report also covers some of the less efficient services, such as compliance and account verification information, among others.

Improvement reports from users jump 54%

Compared to 2024, when Bluesky saw a 17x increase in less recent reports, the company this year reported an increase of 54%, from reports of 6.48 million users in 2024 to 9.97 million in 2025.

Despite the jump in numbers, Bluesky said the growth “traced” the 57% growth that occurred during the same period.

About 3% of users, or 1.24 million users, reported in 2025, the top categories are “misleading” (which includes spam) at 43.73% of the total, “offensive” at 19.93%, and sexual at 13.54%.

The “other” category included 22.14% of reports that were not classified in these categories, or others such as violence, child protection, website violations, or self-harm, which were very few.

Of the 4.36 million reports in the “misleading” category, spam accounted for 2.49 million reports.

So far, hate speech has shared the most of the 1.99 million “harassment” reports, and about 55,400 reports. Other communities that saw the incidents included harassment (about 42,520 reports), trolling (29,500 reports), and doxxing (about 3,170 reports).

However, Bluesky said that many reports of “harassment” included those who fell into the gray area of ​​anti-social behavior, which could include verbal abuse, but did not fit into other categories, such as hate speech.

Most of the sex reports (1.52 million) are related to mislabeling, Bluesky says, meaning that the adults were not properly labeled with metadata – the tags that allow users to control their experience using Bluesky’s tools.

Fewer reports focus on dating images (about 7,520), abuse-related images (about 6,120), and deepfakes (more than 2,000).

Reports of violence (24,670 total) were divided into subcategories such as threats or incitement (about 10,170 reports), glorification of violence (6,630 reports), and extremism (3,230 reports).

In addition to user reports, Bluesky’s automated system identified 2.54 million potential breaches.

One of the areas that Bluesky claimed to have succeeded in is the decrease in daily reports of anti-social behavior on the site, which dropped by 79% after the implementation of a system that identified dangerous responses and reduced their visibility by putting them back and clicking on them, similar to what X does.

Bluesky also saw a decline in monthly user reports, with reports per 1,000 monthly users dropping 50.9% from January to December.

Aside from the slow pace, Bluesky noted that it had removed 3,619 accounts it suspected of having influence, mostly those operating in Russia.

The increase in removal, legal requests

The company said last fall it was to be angry about his control and coercion, and this seems to be true.

Last year, Bluesky downloaded 2.44 million products in 2025, including accounts and content. A year ago, Bluesky downloaded 66,308 accounts, and its devices alone downloaded 35,842 accounts.

Administrators also downloaded 6,334 documents, and automated systems removed 282.

Bluesky also issued 3,192 temporary suspensions in 2025, and 14,659 permanent removals for evasion. Most of the regular bans targeted fraudulent accounts, spam networks, and trolls.

However, its report shows that it tends to write more posts than it does to remove users. Last year, Bluesky used 16.49 million records for content, up 200% year-on-year, while account downloads grew 104% from 1.02 million to 2.08 million. Most of the posts were about adults and porn or nudity.