Xodus
Musk's acquisition of Twitter started the first wave of exodus (or simply the Xodus) but it was not definitive. People were trying Mastodon or Facebook's Threads , but none of that reached the critical mass. It may be different this time, as the US presidential elections has polarized the audience to the levels previously unseen. I personally tried all those options but also sticked with Twitter. But over the last couple of months it has become clear the platform has clearly become algorithmically biased and flooded with bots. Nothing in common with the officially claimed "free speech". Even to a casual reader like myself it has become mostly a sewage, in which even funny orange cat videos could not make it to the surface. The recent shift of users from x.com to Bluesky might have been sparked by Taylor Swift fans , but then it has accelerated like an avalanche. The Guardian was next . And now it seems like everybody is moving. Including some old friends of mine w