Doc Freemo 
#QOTO is seeing a pretty big spike in new user signups this last week. Anyone know whats going on and what is causing the exodus this time? Is this all because all the social media decided to ban trump maybe? It is the only event of consequence I know of.
@freemo I contributed to that spike. I'm a new member and that's my new toot (hi! 
). I believe it has to do with ban on Trump and Parler. Personally I have been gradually leaving other social media for a long time now. There is no particular reason why I registered here at today (instead of yesterday or a week from now) but I guess the ban of the potus contributed a little.
@biomedmax Makes sense. Seems that is the going consensus. I am the local admin here, feel free to reach out to chat anytime and hope you enjoy yourself here.
That is possible but the timing seems a bit too on the nose. There was no sign of an increase just following new years. the first sign of increase started 4 days ago but the increase was not linear with numbers increasing by a weak-exponential curve since then.
So I have concluded it is due to recent social media censorship and banning. The first indication of increase was the day Trump was banned from twitter which is also when republicans, or at least trump supporters started to get banned, and in the day or two that followed these bannings increased along with more social media joining in.
It seems almost certain that must be the cause unless there was a similar provocative event with the exact same timeline.
