Twitter Rival Bluesky Has a Nudes Problem

As people have flocked to Bluesky in recent weeks, the platform has been hit with a problem as old as the internet: nudity. Among those who recently joined the decentralized social network established by Twitter cofounder and former CEO Jack Dorsey are large contingents of the tech, trans, and sex worker communities who have brought their own social norms to the chaotically exciting social platform.

Caught up in that excitement—particularly around one uncontrollable section of Bluesky called the hellthread, where a coding error meant that anyone who had participated in the thread was bombarded with notifications—many chose to share nude images of themselves.

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