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Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing out one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own. The change will allow Bluesky users to and developers to work together to create custom labeling tools for the budding social media platform.
The new moderation tools arrive as Bluesky is seeing a surge in growth after it got rid of its waitlistto all users in February. Since then, the service has added about 2 million new users, bringing its total community to just over The company has said its approach to moderation is based on the same philosophy that has led it to embracealgorithms. The goal, Bluesky wrote in a blog post, is to create “an ecosystem of moderation and open-source safety tools that gives communities power to create their own spaces, with their own norms and preferences.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has referred to the concept as “composable” or “stackable” moderation. “We're always doing baseline moderation, meaning that we are providing you with a default moderated experience when you come in ,” Graber told Engadget last month. “And then on top of that, you can customize things.”
These new third-party labeling services will start to roll out later this week on the desktop version of Bluesky, with a mobile version coming “soon,” according to the company. And it’s likely users will see more options available in the coming weeks as more developers and groups get their hands on the underlying tools.
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