Nudity and Social Media, a Changing Landscape

Bluesky is the social media app of choice for socially responsible nudists.

You would have to be living in a cave to not know by now that the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, has become a raging cesspool of right wing toxicity and neo-Nazi shit, which have now become nearly synonymous terms. Since Elon Musk has taken over the company X has continued to degrade to the point where there are now several movements encouraging people to dump their X accounts and move to more friendly places, with names like Xiter, X-it and others. The place most people are landing is Bluesky.

For proof of that, you need only look at the following graphs.

To be totally honest, we left Twitter when Musk first took over. We could see the direction it was headed and did not want go along for the ride. Yet, we have only recently found Bluesky and after having been there for a bit want to invite everyone to come join us on this relatively new and shockingly different kind of social media.

Like Twitter/X, Bluesky is very body and sex positive. You can post pretty much anything you want. They also provide a self-moderation tool that lets those who do not want to see nudity or sexually explicit content to filter all such material from their feeds. At the same time, you don’t need to have Nazi hate on your feed. There are few Russian bots or right wing trolls on the platform. Even better: the platform keeps a list of such accounts and allows users to subscribe to that and other lists of users for following or blocking. We subscribe to a list of MAGA accounts and known Russian bots, which I then block with a single click. This keeps our feeds free of all of their crap.

Bluesky also allows users to easily create their own custom feeds to deliver content they are particularly interested in seeing, and that they can share with others who may want to subscribe to those feeds. Control of the platform is, therefore, very decentralized and users are encouraged to create and share their own experiences. This approach also allows even new users to immediately begin getting views and likes on content they create, because it is a much more level playing field where there, effectively, are no “gods” or “influencers.”

We hope you will join us over there!