I just did rough math by looking at this counter [0] over the course of 10 minutes. ~10 per second was about 2 hours ago, it was around 4 per second around 10AM Eastern time, yesterday.

Yes on the Musk factor, it would appear. There have been a bunch Bsky mentions in multiple news sources in the US and UK in the last couple days. That appears to driving account creation.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

I want to know why too. If they’re fleeing musk then why now?

its been consistent around 10/s most of today, hit even higher bursts at points. Its been steadily increasing every day for the past week.