Bidirectional List-Based Labelers, but for Small Communities

Joshua Shew January 29, 2026
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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:

Screenshot of Bluesky thread discussing bidirectional blocklists. Users debate the technical feasibility of subscription-based mutual filtering, including challenges with AT Protocol data access methods and rate limiting.

Discussion in the ATmosphere

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