Financial Times [unpaywalled] – “Meta’s Threads is losing ground to social media start-up Bluesky in capitalising on the exodus of users from Elon Musk’s X following Donald Trump’s election. Since election day, app usage of Bluesky in the US and UK skyrocketed by almost 300 per cent to 3.5mn daily users, according to data from research group Similarweb. The site was boosted as academics, journalists and left-leaning politicians abandoned X, whose billionaire owner is a prominent supporter of the president-elect…”

See also beSpacific on Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/bespacific.bsky.social

• And more deprecation of X from Elon Musk who “confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information.  User Paul Graham, who has nearly two million followers, blasted “Twitter’s biggest flaw” was the “deprioritization of tweets with links in them” in a complaint posted on Sunday. In reply, Musk suggested a workaround: “Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.”