Aaron Rodericks

Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice.

It's been a hectic week for Bluesky Trust & Safety. With the Brazilian wave, reports have skyrocketed, bad actors targeted the site, systems needed adaptation, and new harms emerged. 1/7

Really excited to be here!

For some reason a few years ago I set myself a random goal to read all the books of the Horus Heresy, and every 2 books or so I wonder why I keep putting myself through this. This genuinely comes from no other purpose than trying to understand what it was, but I took it too far. #warhammer

In the early days of the app it was always ‘but you are targeting my identity and are biased’ when the content was usually repeated death threats.

First kick at developing and publishing a feed, since oddly enough there was no feed that I found for me to learn about AI on Bluesky. Here's one that surfaces convos from the past 48 hours. Def a first try, so I'm sure there's a lot that I'll learn along the way. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Chrome's unending desire to merge my video call tab with another random tab is the biggest pain.

Note to self: when I am listening to music mixes with a lot of police sirens in it, it makes it harder to differentiate when there’s an actual police car behind me with the siren on.

I used to have a counter in my early days at Bluesky “it’s been 0 days since bloom filters were mentioned”. Jaz was one of the main culprits.

As one of the least technical people in this company I’m trying my best to learn about AI. Both to make our products safer but also to keep up with the pace of change in the industry. For those who don’t use it blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... is an invaluable tool for discovery.

Found it appropriate that I'm trying out claude code for the first time and I get something with tentacles as a buddy for T&S that mutters about 'false positives'.

Are we the… pickleball of social media?

Some decisions fill you with regret. Others haunt you multiple times a day…