Reduce Noise

23 July 2025

test posts on this account with be marked with #testpost. mute this term to hide the noise. otherwise, this account hosts moderation lists to help make your social media experience more social. this is an anonymous account because some users added to lists will harass the list creator.

17 Jan

We list accounts that frequently post media they did not create because they: 1. obscure sources and steal viewership from creators 2. pollute content ecosystems with redundancy 3. are associated with follow or engagement farming, which often fuels misinformation and fear

Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social

When in doubt, ask: Who shared this? What's their source? Is there any verifiable context? If you can't find credible sources confirming it, treat it with significant skepticism!

github.comGitHub - haileyok/atproto-ruleset: An Osprey ruleset made for moderating Bluesky and other ATProto applicationsAn Osprey ruleset made for moderating Bluesky and other ATProto applications - haileyok/atproto-ruleset

22 Dec 2025

We will be looking into this next year 👀

hailey@hailey.at

Because @labeler.hailey.at is fairly low stakes and is merely a community tool (not something we run in production), I've gone ahead and made the ruleset that drives it public. Hopefully serves as a good reference for writing Osprey rules.

pmcewen.leaflet.pubOn Using ATProto to Improve Social Media HabitsIs there a way to encourage sharing original content rather than uncredited reposts?

14 Oct 2025

Very interesting read; we hadn’t considered how we might use our eventual labeler service to redirect users to the original source of content. This seems like a “community notes” sort of service though. Nevertheless we are very keen to get a labeler up to mark posts and accounts reposting content.

Patrick McEwen@pmcewen.com

First @leaflet.pub post! I wrote about @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social having her content reposted and if there anything we can do with #ATProto to try to improve the situation

14 Oct 2025

For now, we are just manually adding to a list in the hopes that feed creators will take advantage of them to reduce further spread of reposted (often stolen) content.

13 Aug 2025

Users of @skylight.social, @flashes.blue @skeetsapp.com — as @graze.social becomes available in-app, keep our moderation lists in mind! Follow us for updates as we outline a new framework for our lists and moderation services. We will solicit feedback before moving forward with any changes too.

10 Aug 2025

Stay tuned for improvements 🫡 We want to empower users with agency and enable developers to more readily help users achieve this.

symmetricalboy@symmetricalboy.com

me & the secret founder of @reducenoise.on.computer are really gonna cook it here, i think:

9 Aug 2025

New domain handle. Felt this one from @handles.club was fitting. 🫡

3 Aug 2025

We have added a new list to help reduce feed noise! If you run a test account drop the handle below, we will add it to the list. #atproto #atdev

27 July 2025

FAQ: Why is SkySentry not in the good moderation lists list? We are not confident the lists are not being misused for personal grievances. Decide for yourself if it’s still worth using after reading the post below and others found by searching “SkySentry”

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Although we currently maintain a list of frequent and occasional ai imagery, it is entirely manual and therefore incomplete. However, the @aimod.social labeler creator is working on automated lists! Using the labeler features is recommended in most instances, but lists are great for

feed building and in the case of frequent ai, mass blocking. We will comb through and report unlabeled accounts on our list, and later remove it. We suggest you checkout the labeler and its associated lists instead!

We are trying to write a longer #testpost except we don’t know what to say so we’re writing exactly that we’re writing a longer #testpost except that we don’t know what to say. That doesn’t seem long enough so we’re going to keep writing until we reach what seems like it’s definitely more than 300

We can’t decide if we should find a way to do more than 4 images split correctly. Flashes and Spark will show them together, Bluesky won’t. Seems like a PITA to code via shortcuts + AT Toolbox. But ugh 4 is so little

Here’s a second paragraph separated by a double new line. It should be a separate text post replied to the other text and images

characters except that we are a very bad judge of that kind of thing. Anyway we think we reached that limit

25 July 2025

FAQ: Why is the trans labeler (by Asuka) not in the good labelers list? We are not confident the labeler and its associated lists are not being misused for personal grievances (in addition to its intended services). Decide for yourself if it’s still worth using after reading top threads below:

bsky.appbsky.app

Before using any moderation list (from this account or another), check whether accounts you may want to see are on it. Note if you subscribe, NEW USERS added to the list will also be blocked or muted. So, I recommend muting unless you have a strong reason to mass block. 1/4

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On this account I host 3 types of lists: 1. Moderation lists for clearly defined (typically from the user bio) bot accounts 2. Moderation lists for likely spam or unwanted content accounts 3. Feed lists meant for filtering out certain (redundant) content, NOT for mass muting or blocking. 3/4

The icons for each list type are as follows: 1. 🤖 Bot icon for defined bots 2. 🚨 Alert icon for potential spam or frequently unwanted content 3. 🌸 Pink icon for feed lists 4/4