Infrastructure providers like Relays focus on combating network abuse and mitigating infrastructure-level harms, while clients and labelers handle more granular content moderation decisions.

Reporting content is an important part of moderation. Users can choose which of their active Labelers to report to, giving them control over who should be informed of an issue.

Labels can be defined at the protocol level or custom-made by Labelers. They can be informational, topical, curational, or moderational. Users can tune how the application handles these labels.

The Bluesky app hardcodes our in-house moderation and allows users to subscribe to additional moderation services on top. Other applications may choose their own core moderators, or use Bluesky’s. This provides a strong foundation while giving users more options.

The AT Protocol is an open network of services that anyone can provide. We separate moderation into a dedicated service called the Labeler. Labelers produce "labels" associated with user-generated content, which clients can read to decide what to hide, blur, or drop.

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Last week we launched app passwords, a short-term solution for authentication that will let users experiment with new clients without fully trusting them with their passwords.

When using third-party apps, please use an app password while we implement SSO with scoped permissions.

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