Bidirectional List-Based Labelers, but for Small Communities
Joshua Shew
January 29, 2026
The Anti "Anti-AI" Labeler, @antiantiai.bsky.social, is great for the non-"Anti-AI" community, but apparently setting up a labeler that tracks users who subscribe to certain lists is challenging.
There is probably an easier way to do this, especially if you intend to serve a smaller community.
For labelers that serve < 1–5k users, which should be a pretty maintainable model that can run on a laptop for no additional costs, given Bluesky's current API structure.
Here are some quick calculations without any caching or backup optimizations.
Is this manageable? I don't actually know because I haven't tried to set it up. I would be curious to hear from people who have operated labelers.
Links to relevant material below:
Discussion in the ATmosphere