In 2024, Bluesky wrote about their "Stackable Approach to Moderation":

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

Now in 2026, their transparency report says nothing about stackable moderation or moderation services. I guess nobody is using them, at least not in significant enough volumes that it would have a meaningful effect on the at least not enough for them to have a meaningful effect on the Trust & Safety team's job.

Likewise, they tout "thousands of Personal Data Servers operated by people across the federated AT Protocol network", but that's out of "41.41M users".

It's fine, I guess. It's just not meaningfully decentralized.

> I guess nobody is using them, at least not in significant enough volumes that it would have a meaningful effect on the at least not enough for them to have a meaningful effect on the Trust & Safety team's job.

It’s spread out over subgroups and niches. I imagine the biggest independent moderation service is blacksky’s, and they’re not exactly best friends with bluesky.

I use about five different moderation services, and a handful of independent blocklists.

> It's fine, I guess. It's just not meaningfully decentralized.

It’s better than the situation on X.