Bluesky is continuing to blow up. The Twitter-like service and alternative to Elon Musk's X, has now surpassed 16 million users after seeing rapid growth in the days following the U.S. presidential election. While many are leaving X over the service's increasing right-wing leanings and Musk's campaigning for Trump, others are unhappy with other changes Musk has made ' like how blocks work or how their content on X will be used to train AI. Despite those issues, X is still the leader in the space in terms of monthly active users, while Threads is quickly catching up. Meta announced on Thursday that Threads grew by over 15 million users in November alone, for instance. Earlier this month, Threads said it had 275 million monthly active users. But if Threads is the Big Tech threat to X, Bluesky is the indie effort. It's already bigger than Mastodon, another decentralized X competitor that now has 7.6 million users, less than a million of whom log in monthly. (The wider fediverse built...
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