Bluesky, Fediverse, and future of social media

Bluesky sees a post-election surge in new users amid exodus from X. Here's what to know about the social media platform.
The social media platform Bluesky has welcomed a wave of new users in the wake of the presidential election, with more than 1.25 million flocking to the site in the last week.
What To Know About Bluesky—The Buzzy Social Media App Siphoning Users From Elon Musk’s X
Bluesky has added 1.5 million users over the past week as former President Donald Trump’s election victory prompted users to flee X, the platform owned by Trump ally Elon Musk.
Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
I care a lot about the future of social media. It’s how many of us learn about the world and connect to each other; putting something so important in the hands of a handful of centralized corporations has repeatedly proven itself to be harmful.
Bluesky: the social media platform causing a mass X-odus
The social media platform Bluesky has acquired more than one million new users since the US election, said a company spokesperson. This influx of new members, largely from the US and UK, has been put down to users seeking to "escape misinformation and offensive posts on X",
How the US election result is pushing social media users away from X and onto Bluesky
Following Donald Trump's reelection a wave of exits from X, the platform run by Trump's political ally Elon Musk, has been underway. Some users have moved to Bluesky, which has 14.5 million users to date in November,
Bluesky has been acting up today
Bluesky didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. The platform crossed the 15 million user mark yesterday, and the ...
Bluesky is courting the Swifties
Bluesky has grown by 2 million users — about 15% — since Donald Trump won the U.S. election last week. But the emerging ...
Is Bluesky Down? Users Turn Away From Elon Musk's X, Cause Website Outage
Over 1.25 million new users joined in the last week, with many leaving X due to Musk's support of President-elect Trump.
Outage hits Bluesky just as the platform's popularity takes off
The social media platform Bluesky was hit by an outage on Thursday, amid a rising wave of popularity for the app, which is ...
Bluesky attracts millions as users leave Musk's X after Trump win
Social media platform Bluesky is adding millions of users as people flee X after Donald Trump was elected U.S. President and ...
Threads grew by a Bluesky this month
Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger ...
How to use Bluesky, the Twitter-like app that’s taking on Elon Musk’s X
Bluesky is continuing to blow up. The Twitter-like service and alternative to Elon Musk's X, has now surpassed 16 million ...
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People are flocking to social media app Bluesky. What is it, and who made it?
Social media platform Bluesky welcomed one million users recently amid reports that social platform X has seen thousands of ...
Who owns Bluesky? Here's who's behind the friendlier Twitter alternative
The main owner of Bluesky helped create a social media platform that discourages bots and hate speech and lets users curate ...
How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized ...
How to leave Twitter for Bluesky
What with everything going on recently, we’re seeing plenty of users flock away from Twitter—sorry, X—and set up social media ...