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What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html
Usually that's the opposite that happen with these kind of people. They are going to look forward on being the at the top of the leaderboard, like a child doing stupid things only to get noticed by its parents.
Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of keeping a single social network running for a long time. As has Facebook.
But for lots of dedicated communities, the new owner has such direct contempt for them and has focused on ruining the party.
Bluesky will work for now. Already science Twitter is having a huge renaissance now that links are no longer suppressed and discussion has lower noise:
What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
A bigger jump seemed to be Aug 28 - Sept 7 (daily likers 200k => 1M+). I wonder why. (also some days are missing there, so maybe something changed in the data collection).
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.
finding the same ppl on bluesky needs work, and it's not a job i'm going to do. if twitter decays, good; i will get rid of my last social media app.