Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.

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.

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...