This is new kind of 'intolerance' in US ... quite similar to India's Sickular brigade ... Frustrated and Humbled, some anti--Trump celebrities and others desert X

Post-Trump election, micro-blogging site Bluesky says it now has more than 15 million users, up from nine million in September.

Hypocrisy is in play !!

The main beneficiaries of mass exodus from X have been social media platforms, Bluesky and Threads.

Bluesky saw a surge in new users, gaining over a million followers in just one week after the election, according to spokesperson Emily Liu, who spoke to The New York Times.

In the week following the 2024 US elections, a significant number of Americans left X (formerly Twitter), marking the largest exodus from the platform since its acquisition by Tesla boss Elon Musk in 2022. 

Many of these users were disillusioned with Musk's campaign and support for President-elect Donald Trump. 

This sentiment has also led to the departures of celebrities, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Elton John, Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg and news anchor John Lennon. 

London's newspaper 'The Guardian' also announced its exit from X.  

Bluesky is also reaching out to users about why it is a better option.

"I can guarantee that no Bluesky team members will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving them direct access to control what you see online."   

For many users leaving X, the election's outcome and the rising presence of far-right, white supremacy, and conspiracy-driven posts on the platform leading to a Trump win was the "last straw".

"You were getting this awful timeline of far-right, white supremacist, conspiracy-theory posts which the great majority of people don’t want to interact with on a daily basis," Shannon C McGregor, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, told The New York Times.

Other prominent figures, including Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis and news anchor Don Lemon, also announced they were leaving. Lemon specifically pointed to X's new terms of service, which took effect on November 7, as a key reason for his departure.  

Another platform Threads says it has gotten “more than 15 million signups in November alone". 

Last night, 'Threads' says it no longer asks new users if they want to follow everyone they already follow on Instagram. 

“We’ve been running a test for a while now and it looks like people actually prefer their experience if they build a different graph on Thread[s] than the graph that they had on Instagram,” he says. 

And Mosseri seems to be open to exploring a Threads-specific DMs system — personally, I think DMs are one of the key advantages Bluesky has over Threads right now.