Posted on 11/11/2024 8:15:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Social media platform Bluesky has picked up more than 700,000 new users in the week since the US election, as users seek to escape misinformation and offensive posts on X.
The influx, largely from North America and the UK, has helped Bluesky reach 14.5 million users worldwide, up from 9 million in September, the company said.
Social media researcher Axel Bruns said the platform offered an alternative to X, formerly Twitter, including a more effective system for blocking or suspending problematic accounts and policing harmful behaviour.
“It’s become a refuge for people who want to have the kind of social media experience that Twitter used to provide, but without all the far-right activism, the misinformation, the hate speech, the bots and everything else,” he said.
“The more liberal kind of Twitter community has really now escaped from there and seems to have moved en masse to Bluesky.”
Bluesky began as a project inside Twitter but became an independent company in 2022, and is now primarily owned by chief executive Jay Graber.
The platform has previously benefited from dissatisfaction with X and its billionaire owner, Elon Musk, who is closely tied to US president-elect Donald Trump’s successful election campaign. Twitter shed millions of users after rebranding to X and usage in the US slumped by more than a fifth in the subsequent seven months.
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They will be banning and canceling each other in a few weeks...
“Guardrails” ya know...
Lol.
“Boundaries”
Wow, so people are voluntarily submitting to censorship on the platform. It is amazing how liberals have fallen so obsessively in love with censoring speech.
What misinformation?
Oh, you mean anything that goes against the consensus view of the group.
Got it. Independent thinking IS hard.
X has over 600,000,000 users.
This is just more good news. X will now be better than ever.
Gotta love how things are settling after Trump won on
November 5th.
Bluesky formerly Echochamber formerly Bubble
I heard today he has his eyes on Snap-Chat.
That may be silliness. I don’t know.
They were talking about him removing filters, and women
having to deal with that reality in more than one way.
Love it... if it turns out to be true.
“to escape misinformation and offensive posts on X.“
What a global joke The Guardian is.
So they'll be back.
G’luck!
Run from the truth…stick your heads in the sand or other places!…👋👋👋
Do I need to prove that I have a septum ring to subscribe?
The Atlantic had a long article complaining about racism on X.
I was laughing so hard—anti-white racism is everywhere in the mass media.
They have no shame.
And then they make the laughable accusation that we're the ones who live in a bubble.
Ever see the South Park episode “Smug Alert!”? Those are the people taking “refuge” on Bluesky.
YES. Now that conservatives can say anything on X, and Lord knows I do :), it’s no longer fun for them
X was a blast this election. It was like I TRIED to get banned this time and couldn’t.
They must have ultra right wing monitors :)
Musk buying twitter was a huge win for our side.
They prove themselves to be real fascists more and more eacy day.
If the worth of X goes down, I hope Musk can make due with the other 250 billion dollars he has :)
Yessssss
Is that a made-up number or real?
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