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Lizzo Latest Celebrity to Join Bluesky Amid X Exodus: ‘Leaving Toxicity in 2024’
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Lizzo Latest Celebrity to Join Bluesky Amid X Exodus: ‘Leaving Toxicity in 2024’

Singer Lizzo has announced she is joining Bluesky, a social media site that has attracted users who left X, formerly Twitter.

“I hate the internet. Anyway, I joined Bluesky because we’re leaving toxicity in 2024,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, adding a laughing emoji and a link to her Bluesky page. She made no indication that she would be leaving X, although the platform has recently seen an exodus of A-listers.

Since Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has taken over Twitter in 2022 has users dissatisfied with its platform changes exploring alternatives, and its involvement in the 2024 presidential campaign has encouraged some to leave X altogether.

In the run-up to the elections, the technology mogul campaigned for Donald Trump, who would subsequently win the elections. On Wednesday, President-elect appointed Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as leaders of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.

In the week after the election, Bluesky – launched by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey – confirmed it had gained more than 700,000 new users, with more than 14.5 million users worldwide.

X users have also cited an increase in toxic discourse as a reason for leaving the platform, and a 2023 University of Southern California study found that after Musk’s purchase, the level of hate speech on

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Lizzo at the 10th Annual Breakthrough Awards Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13 in Los Angeles. The singer has announced that she has joined Bluesky, a competitor of X.

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Lizzo also shared a link to her Bluesky page on X, where she last posted in September 2023. On TikTok, she posted a screenshot of her page on the new platform, with the caption “#thegreatdigitalmigration.”

Newsweek reached out to a Lizzo spokesperson for comment by email Thursday outside of normal business hours.

“Wait…are we having fun on the internet again?” the singer posted on Bluesky.

Lizzo is not the first famous face to join the platform, as Bluesky’s users include: director James Gunn, New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, model Chrissy Teigen, authors Stephen King and Hank Green, former CNN anchor Don Lemon and actors Patton Oswalt, William Shatner and John Cusack.

On Wednesday, Lemon announced on social media that he would be leaving X.

“I’ve loved connecting with you all all these years on Twitter and then on X, but it’s time for me to leave the platform,” he said on an Instagram reel.

“I once believed it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and freedom of expression, but now I feel it does not serve that purpose,” he continued.

Lemon cited X’s new terms of service as another reason for his departure. The changes, which take effect Friday, mean that any legal disputes with X “will be brought exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or in state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas.”

He added: “If The Washington Post recently reported on to punish.’ I think that speaks for itself.”

Lemon instructed viewers to follow him on other social media platforms, including Bluesky.