While other platforms, including Meta's Threads, had been seen as the "heir apparent" to the popular microblog, Bluesky could have a serious advantage.

While on the surface, Bluesky and X (Twitter) may seem incredibly similar, some key aspects differentiate the two. Bluesky is still growing and developing as a platform, so it can't quite match up to X in a lot of ways. Nevertheless, it continues to define itself as an alternative to X, just with a different vision.

Bluesky is currently one of the main beneficiaries of this user migration, and if you’re thinking of making the same switch, we’ve got a complete guide to the process right here. If you’re attached to the posts you’ve already put out into the world on Twitter (or X),

Users have been leaving Elon Musk's X and flocking to the decentralized social media network Bluesky in recent months, with over a million accounts added since the U.S. presidential election. And after years of feeling like an also-ran,

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",

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.