As best I can tell only a tiny fraction of people actually left twitter without coming back a few months later.
Do you have any numbers on what proportion of leftists left twitter and where they went?
https://www.pomona.edu/news/2023/08/15-environmental-users-m...
I wish there were more actual data, personally, but it's still nice to see unrelated parties seeing similar trends. Especially when they are able to cut out lots of noise, like you can do when focusing on a niche.
Anyway, much appreciated!
The best estimate I've heard is that around 20-30k people really left, based on reported numbers over half a million. That seems about right, to me. 500k said they were going to leave, only 20k actually did.
Of course, why that pushed the site more rightward is likewise speculation. If those numbers are accurate, I'd guess that the people who did leave were the most politically or socially aggrieved, so they would be the exact people to have outsized impact on Community Notes. And given the actual impacts that I've observed, anecdotally, that tracks pretty well with how much further right Twitter got. Not "much" but noticeable to anyone not making excuses for it.