In its chaotic early days, the platform’s algorithm shared naked pictures in its What’s Hot feed.
“My opinions on this boil down to, ‘Yeah I’d rather not see it’ or have it readily accessible,” says one Bluesky user who raised questions about why there had been backlash to the ban, and who requested anonymity because they had already experienced pushback from fellow Bluesky users for voicing their opinion. “Tons of people in my life have had issues with sex and porn addiction, and it being available behind a quick setting change on-off switch doesn't really help,” he says.
For Sarah T. Roberts, faculty director at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, Bluesky’s challenges in tackling the wave of nudes highlights a naivety around user behavior. “Once again, a platform comes to market and acts surprised when users try to game and break things, and when they post nudity,” she says.
Whether the platform expected such user behavior isn’t known. Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, forwarded an interview request to Bluesky’s unnamed press team, who declined to provide anyone for an interview but instead directed WIRED to. One member of the Bluesky team posted that the decision to implement a “no boobs on whats [sic] hot” policy was “a difficult line to walk.” By default, Bluesky users will have a “show nudity” toggle switched on when they join, and “would prefer to keep it that way.
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