After X owner Elon Musk helped President-elect Donald Trump successfully run for the nation’s highest office, some users on the social media site are jumping ship for other options.
A collection of X users — in some cases, high-profile accounts, including TV anchor Don Lemon and LGBTQ activist Alejandra Caraballo — posted their intentions after the election to switch to Bluesky, a Twitter-esque app launched by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey in 2019. Bluesky has a small base of users compared with major social media platforms, but it gives people more control over what they see. On Bluesky, people can build their own algorithms and share them with others, rather than everyone relying on one top-down algorithm that changes at the whims of company leaders.
