Since the presidential election — and Musk's hard right turn — X users have begun leaving the platform en masse, harkening back to the early days of Musk's acquisition and the search for Twitter alternatives.

The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its

Similar to X, Bluesky users can write a post by clicking a large, blue button that says “New Post” with a pen-and-paper icon next to it. The posts are on the shorter side, with a 300-character limit, and they can include video and photos.