Why I'm sick of X -- and optimistic about Bluesky

The problem with X is that it has become completely unusable.

By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor

Journalists are migrating there en masse. Celebrity actors and musicians are flooding in. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has joined the party, and the New York City mayor's office is ordering agencies to set up camp. They're calling it the #Xodus, and it's happening fast.

Millions of social media junkies and power users are pivoting from using X, Elon Musk's social media platform, to setting up accounts on Bluesky, a buzzy platform that resembles the earlier days of Twitter before Musk rendered it a technically unusable mess.

Bluesky was developed in recent years by Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, as a kind of open and decentralized alternative to Twitter. (Dorsey has since left the board of Bluesky.) In terms of the basic user experience and design of the site, it looks a lot like Twitter used to in the pre-Musk era. Bluesky had an invite-only beta launch in 2023, and in February it became available to the general public. While it has grown throughout the year, it has seen a meteoric explosion in sign-ups after the election. And with media organizations and politicians now setting up accounts on the site, it looks like Bluesky is exuding "official new alternative to Twitter" vibes.

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source: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/blue-sky-leaving-x-social-twitter-musk-rcna180359?cid=eml_mda_20241118&user_email=95d3878287e11d7327ccf871e1ee65a4613202f47c00e15603ce32732c551bef