Why alternatives to the Musk-owned platform keep springing up time and time again

One day after November 6, when elections were held in the United States, something interesting happened in the tech space. Over 1,16,000 users of X (formerly Twitter) deactivated their accounts on the social media platform. Not just that, web analytics firm Similarweb noted on November 12 that US-based users on X reached a record 42.3 million visits on the platform on the same day.