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The third-party BlueSky Labelers site has a directory of some labelers. Some of these are used for moderation and others for matters of interest, such as verifying Microsoft employees or labeling GitHub repositories you contribute to.

Who owns Bluesky?

Bluesky spun off from Twitter in 2021 and is currently a Public Benefit Corporation (similar to Posit, formerly RStudio), which means it can legally take the interests of its user community into account and not only its owners. The Bluesky site says the company is owned by “[CEO] Jay Graber and the Bluesky team,” although it has also announced investments from companies including Blockchain Capital (it says it is not getting involved in crypto).

Bluesky executives have said that since its underlying protocol is open source, if something were to happen to its ownership, another entity could spin up infrastructure and allow people to port their accounts to another server. However, Mastodon advocates argue that the same single server and ownership team that make Bluesky easier to use, also increase the risk of the service being sold as Twitter was.