Credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / Getty Images 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 ...

Following the election, public officials and agencies are joining Bluesky, a decentralized social media alternative, as many shift away from 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.