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Elon Musk's X experiences significant outages amid user exodus to Bluesky alternative

Elon Musk's X experiences significant outages amid user exodus to Bluesky alternative

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Recent data suggests a surge in popularity of Bluesky, a social media platform, following the departure of prominent users from X, another social media platform owned by Elon Musk. This trend is attributed to Musk's increasing association with Donald Trump and the subsequent exodus of users opposed to Trump's views.

Bluesky
1. Our online experience doesn't have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see. On an open social network like Bluesky, you can shape your experience for yourself.
Rose Wang
Bluesky
1. Subscription revenue helps us improve the app, grow the developer ecosystem and gives us time to explore business models beyond traditional ads.
Don Lemon
Don Lemon Show
1. I once believed it was a place for honest debate, discussion, transparency, and free speech. But now, I feel it no longer serves that purpose.
Bart Cammaerts
London School of Economics
1. So, sure, X is the worst and is problematic for a number of political reasons, but it doesn't mean that these other platforms are necessarily 'the good'.
2. If those functionalities can be offered by alternatives and enough people make that switch, it could go quite quickly. We've seen that also in the past with other platforms like Myspace, for example.
3. In a way people are going to the lesser of two evils because all these platforms have a business model that in essence is geared towards extraction, towards commodifying your sociality in ways contravening your privacy.
4. This is kind of a tipping moment to some extent.
5. The fact that we see now so many people making that move is a combination of approaches that have been ongoing for longer than [the election].
Silvia Majo-Vazquez
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1. Other platforms are gaining traction, so probably they'll mobilize their resources to those platforms which provide new [groups] that are more difficult to reach — young audiences — and perhaps provide better environments.
2. They want to convert the audiences on social media platforms, [so] which audiences are you targeting right now on Twitter [X] with the drop of, also, [X] users?
3. When it comes to social media platforms, the environment is getting more fragmented.
4. News companies do not have unlimited resources, audiences do not have unlimited attention, so they might have to make a strategic decision if there is a platform that is associated to a high level of uncertainty when it comes to how the conversations will evolve in the short term.

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