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countrymile ◴[] No.42160001[source]
I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
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1. minimaxir ◴[] No.42160053[source]
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.

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2. geoka9 ◴[] No.42160136[source]
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?
3. ideashower ◴[] No.42160176[source]
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...
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4. geoka9 ◴[] No.42160243[source]
In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
5. ericjmorey ◴[] No.42160405[source]
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.