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.

Following Donald Trump's reelection a wave of exits from X, the platform run by Trump's political ally Elon Musk, has been underway. Some users have moved to Bluesky, which has 14.5 million users to date in November,