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Blue Sky released its first transparency report this week,

documenting the actions taken by its trust and safety team

and the results of other initiatives,

like Age Assurance Compliance, Monitoring of Influence, Operations, Automated Labeling, and more.

Now, the social media startup, a rival to X and threads, grew nearly 60% in 2025,

from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million, which includes accounts hosted both on Blue Sky's own infrastructure and those running their own infrastructure as part of the decentralized social network based on Blue Sky's AT protocol. During the past year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform, which represented 61% of all posts ever made on Blue Sky.

Now, of those, 235 million posts contained media, accounting for 62% of all media posts shared on Blue Sky to date.

The companies also reported a five-fold increase in

legal requests from law enforcement agencies, government regulators, and legal representatives

in 2025, with 1,470 requests up from 238 requests in 2024.

Oh boy, Apple had a great Q1, huh?

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