Perzik 2.0

What was the first Perzik?

The original Perzik was a social platform where adults could share photography without the restrictions mainstream social media puts on nudity.

People shared bodies, artistic photographs, sexy pictures and more explicit content.

It grew into a real community.

And running it taught me much more than building it did.

I underestimated moderation, assumed people understood consent the same way, and thought clear rules would be enough.

I underestimated how difficult moderation becomes when sexuality and vulnerability exist in the same space.

I assumed people understood consent in roughly the same way.
I assumed clear rules would be enough.
I assumed people would follow those rules simply because they had agreed to them.

That was naive.

Rules without consequences don't create boundaries.

And telling someone to respect consent doesn't magically teach them what consent means.

The original platform was closed. Rather than bringing the old Perzik back, I'm building a new one from those lessons.

But the idea never really went away.

Neither did everything I learned from running it.

So rather than bringing the old Perzik back, I'm building a new one.

Perzik 2.0 is being built much more deliberately around consent, privacy, moderation and community.

We're adding more friction to joining.
We're thinking about how explicit content is labelled and filtered.
We're looking at how private images are received.
We're making boundaries clearer.
And we're being much more comfortable with the idea that access to the community can be taken away.

What isn't changing is the reason I loved Perzik in the first place.

You don't need to censor yourself because somebody somewhere might find your nipple offensive.

We're just putting much more thought into what needs to exist around that freedom.