X owner Elon Musk appears to be spooked by the continuous flow of users leaving the social media platform in favor of alternatives like BlueSky and Meta's Threads. In a surprising move last week, Musk announced that the platform would start allowing users to hide likes,

Will Bluesky challenge X's dominance and compete with Meta to become a leading player in the social media landscape?

It's perhaps expected that Bluesky might have issues. Amid Musk's high-profile support for President-elect Donald Trump lots of users made an exodus for Bluesky. It skyrocketed to the top of Apple's App Store, adding approximately 100,000 users per day since last week's election.

Bluesky is challenging Twitter, now known as X, which has been transformed into a very different beast by its Texas-based owner, billionaire Elon Musk.

Bluesky is continuing to blow up. The Twitter-like service and alternative to Elon Musk's X, has now surpassed 16 million users after seeing rapid growth

Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has had two dominant ideological hallmarks. One is a slash-and-burn view of fixing a business, which Musk is now posturing that he’ll import to the federal government.