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https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36822 Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky Sokoto, S., Badhuf, L., Ascigil, O. , Tyson, G., Castro, I., Scheuermann, B., Baronchelli, A. & Krol, M. (2026). Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky. Paper presented at the ACM The Web Conference, 13-17 Apr 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. doi: 10.1145/3774904.3792106 Abstract Content moderation is a major challenge for online platforms. While user-driven blocking is a common tool, its dynamics are usually hidden as moderation data is private. Bluesky makes moderation actions public-by-design, providing an unprecedented opportunity to study a community-driven moderation ecosystem at scale. ...