Bluesky Sees One Million New Users Since Election

The New York Times reports:

In the week since the United States presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns, to reiterate his support for President-elect Donald J. Trump. Some of the platform’s users have decided that they would rather post elsewhere.

Among the largest beneficiaries of that desire is Bluesky, a rival service that has gained more than a million new users in the week since the election, a company spokeswoman, Emily Liu, said on Tuesday.

The accounts created on Bluesky this week, many of which are left-leaning, shared cat videos alongside their hopes that the platform might offer a reprieve from the misinformation and hateful speech that have swirled on X since Mr. Musk’s takeover.

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Last year I made a single post on Bluesky and then pretty much forgot about it, but this morning I started posting JMG content over there (@JoeMyGod).

For now, JMG posts will still appear on X. As much of the JMG content is about the cult, we must unfortunately, for now, continue to feature X posts here.

Plus me. Same handle. https://t.co/NqNALplwqR

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) November 15, 2024