Leaving X for bluer pastures? What to know about Blueskys owners and policies.

More than 13 million users have joined the ranks of the latest buzzy social media platform Bluesky, the self-proclaimed “billionaire-proof” micro-blog that is taking on Elon Musk’s X. 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. Bluesky (also known as Bluesky Social) has gained about one million new members a day ever since, shooting up into the number one spot on the App Store. SEE ALSO: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter The social networking site is “designed to not be controlled by a single company,” the company writes. “Traditional social networks are often closed platforms with a central authority. There’s a small group of people who control those companies, and they have total control over how users can use the platform and what developers can build.” It’s mission, in summary, is to host a social network made in the image of the early internet, one created by the people, for the people.Who owns Bluesky?Bluesky is the brainchild of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, originally an internal Twitter initiative created in 2019 to explore moving the platform into an open source infrastructure. Dorsey left his former company in 2021, speedily turning the work of the Bluesky team into a decentralized, open source alternative to modern social media behemoths. Bluesky became an independent company in 2021…Leaving X for bluer pastures? What to know about Blueskys owners and policies.