X's loss was Bluesky's gain in 2024, with the decentralized social network expanding its user base almost nine times over, from 2.89 million to 25.94 million. In 2024, users submitted 6.48 million reports to Bluesky’s moderation service, a 17x increase from 2023, when users submitted 358,000 reports. "For the first time in 2024, we now had a backlog in moderation reports," Bluesky says. In 2024, Bluesky moderators took down 66,308 accounts, while its automated systems took down 35,842 accounts for reasons such as spam or being part of a bot network. In 2024, 93,076 people appealed at least one Bluesky moderation decision for for a total of 205,000 individual appeals.
