Bluesky demystified: Your quick guide to the X alternative

Since Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the US election, X (formerly Twitter) users have been flocking to alternate social media platforms, with Bluesky being one of the biggest winners. The decentralised social media, which ironically originated as a project under Jack Dorsey at Twitter, recently gained more than a million new users, reaching at its all-time user base of 15 million. If you are thinking of quitting X and are looking for an alternate social media platform, here’s everything you need to know about Bluesky.