![]() ![]() “But whats hot is a bit different as you didn’t opt in,” they skeeted.Ĭarolina Are calls the decision to remove nudes and lewds from the What’s Hot page a form of shadowbanning-the subject of her research, as well as something she has experience with personally. One member of the Bluesky team posted that the decision to implement a “no boobs (or dicks, or asses) on whats 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.” That means if people proactively follow a user who decides to share nudity, they will see it. 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 their FAQ page. Whether the platform expected such user behavior isn’t known. So why is it once again a surprise and not an inevitability?” “Surely it wouldn’t have taken a genius to predict this turn of events. “Content moderation decisions as an afterthought, whatever level of permissiveness is decided upon, are costly both from a financial and a PR perspective,” she says. That lack of preparedness for what Roberts thought would be an inevitability could scupper Bluesky’s future growth. “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. 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. Additionally, he says that the current system labels some content as nudity when it isn’t, while missing some that is.įor Sarah T. ![]() “Bluesky has their current ‘turn off explicit content’ system, but you fall into the explicit labeling issue,” he says. The anonymous user suggests that Bluesky could follow an approach taken by Reddit, which allows users to block access to all properly-labeled “not safe for work” (NSFW) subreddits. “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. ![]() “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. ![]()
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