EFF is Leaving X
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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue,” the digital rights group said. “The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.” From the report:

We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. […]

When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis.

EFF takes on big fights, and we win. We do that by putting our time, skills, and our members’ support where they will effect the most change. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org. We hope you follow us there and keep supporting the work we do. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we’re here to help you take back control.

Abstract credit: https://slashdot.org/story/453946/outstanding

  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 hour ago

    any corporation or institution still using Xitter deserves no respect, attention or business

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 minutes ago

      They craved the reach.

      This is what convinces many people to stay. They desire the attention. And the accounts desperate for attention range from big companies, to small artists.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    27 minutes ago

    but it might be overdue

    By at least two years. Better late than never, I guess, but EFF should have been one of the first ones jumping ship to newer, freer options.

  • ozoned@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    We’re winning! Keep up the food work everyone. I know the EFF won’t be leaving the Fediverse, so let’s make sure we’re all doing what we can as well!

  • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Nice!

    I finally gave my all-but unused Instagram account the heave-ho last week. Left with a “Am tired of Meta’s enshittification of their sites…” message.

    Besides I have a pro account on Flickr, (for a loooong time - from when it was a yahoo property) and that is SO much quieter and friendly since it’s just about photographs.

    Yeah, twatter needs to meet a slow, costly, end for Musk.