What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 17:37:33 | Updated at 2024-11-16 19:43:44 2 hours ago
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What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?
The Guardian ^ | Sat 16 Nov 2024 | Tom Ambrose

Posted on 11/16/2024 9:30:30 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform Bluesky since the US election.

Many are seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform.

But what exactly is Bluesky, why it is proving so popular, and who has already made the move?

What is Bluesky?

Bluesky is a social media platform where people can interact much as they do on X, posting, replying and messaging one another on a vertical user interface.

The recent influx of new users, largely from North America and the UK, has helped it reach more than 15 million users worldwide, up from 9 million in September, the company said.

How did it start out and who owns it?

Bluesky began as a project inside Twitter, after its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, announced in 2019 that the company would fund developers to create an “open and decentralised standard for social media”. Bluesky became an independent company in 2021 and is now primarily owned by the chief executive, Jay Graber.

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To: MinorityRepublican

So what is the verdict?

Is this a conservative site worth visiting?

2 posted on 11/16/2024 9:33:51 AM PST by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)


To: MinorityRepublican

Evil uncle Elon owns X and he supports PDJT.


3 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:32 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)


To: MinorityRepublican

"What is Bluesky?"

Another liberal echo chamber that will eat itself within months? Another failed experiment to create the 'X Killer'? The next source of victims in The Guardian's attempt to grift money and donations for 'reporting' the 'truth'?

I've got more...

4 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:33 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)


To: MinorityRepublican

5 posted on 11/16/2024 9:34:49 AM PST by Dahoser (The Harris campaign and media allies are not using JOY and FORWARD accidentally. Look them up.)


To: MinorityRepublican

I went and looked. They are falsely advertising that they are “bipartisan”. There is nothing bipartisan about that platform at all. It is a shark feeding frenzy bolstering the insane left alternative reality.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 9:35:11 AM PST by Openurmind


The Guardian evangelizing the soon to be Rat cesspool — imagine that.


7 posted on 11/16/2024 9:35:59 AM PST by Gene Eric


To: MinorityRepublican

Twittercratic Underground



To: MinorityRepublican

Another Chinese social app.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 9:36:22 AM PST by 9YearLurker


To: MinorityRepublican

It’s a platform for pearl clutchers.


10 posted on 11/16/2024 9:36:39 AM PST by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)


To: Openurmind

11 posted on 11/16/2024 9:37:10 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun! Left Foot! Right Foot! Thank God For Guns!....Denny Crane)

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