[minimaxir]

Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.

The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.

[ideashower]

This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...

[ericjmorey]

All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.

[geoka9]

In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...

[geoka9]

Or possibly, once the event was over, the users in question had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?