Social network Bluskaj has gained a million new users in the week since the US election, as some Ix users look for an alternative platform to post their opinions and interact with others online, AP reports.
Bluskaj announced on November 13 that the total number of users had grown to 15 million, up from approximately 13 million at the end of October.
Led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an invitation-only network until it opened to the public in February. That invitation-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features.
The platform resembles Elon Musk's X, with a "discover" feed as well as a chronological "feed" for accounts that users follow. Users can send direct messages and pin posts, as well as find "starter packs" that provide a curated list of people and custom "feeds" to follow.
The increase in the number of users after the election is not the first time that Bluskaj has benefited from people leaving Ix. Blusakj gained 2,6 million users in the week after X was banned in Brazil in August - 85 percent of them from Brazil, the company said.
About 500.000 new users signed up in a single day last month, when Iks signaled that blocked accounts would be able to see users' public posts.
Despite Bluesky's rise, X announced last week that it "dominated the global conversation about the US election" and set new records. The platform saw a 15,5 percent jump in new user registrations on Election Day, Ix said, with a record 942 million posts worldwide.
Representatives of Bluskaj and Iks did not respond to requests for comment.
Bluesky has shown a competitive attitude toward X through irritating comments, including an Election Day post on X that mentioned Musk watching the voting results for President-elect Donald Trump.
Across the platform, new users — including journalists, left-leaning politicians and celebrities — posted memes and shared that they were looking forward to using the space free of ads and hate speech. Some have said it reminds them of the early days of X, when there was still Twitter.
On Wednesday, The Guardian said it would no longer publish content on X, citing "far-right conspiracy theories and racism" on the site.
At the same time, television journalist Don Lemon announced on Iks that he was leaving the platform, but that he would continue to use other social networks, including Bluesky.
Last year, advertisers such as IBM, NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast fled X over concerns that their ads were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general.
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