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The third-party BlueSky Labelers web site has a listing of some labelers. A few of these are used for moderation and others for issues of curiosity, corresponding to verifying Microsoft workers or labeling GitHub repositories you contribute to.
Who owns Bluesky?
Bluesky spun off from Twitter in 2021 and is presently a Public Profit Company (just like Posit, previously RStudio), which suggests it may legally take the pursuits of its person neighborhood into consideration and never solely its house owners. The Bluesky web site says the corporate is owned by “[CEO] Jay Graber and the Bluesky staff,” though it has additionally introduced investments from corporations together with Blockchain Capital (it says it isn’t getting concerned in crypto).
Bluesky executives have stated that since its underlying protocol is open supply, if one thing had been to occur to its possession, one other entity may spin up infrastructure and permit folks to port their accounts to a different server. Nonetheless, Mastodon advocates argue that the identical single server and possession staff that make Bluesky simpler to make use of, additionally enhance the danger of the service being offered as Twitter was.