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EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

People leaving Twitter now is not very impressive. Less "seeing the light" and more "Trumpgret".

I'll remind you that the Debian project left Twitter over a year ago. So the EFF isn't as fast moving or comfortable with change like ... Debian.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not a contest to be holier than thou. It's a numbers game.

EFF stayed on Twitter because it has a larger audience and that means a larger portion of people will see their messaging. In fact, I would argue that the people that are still on Twitter are the ones most in need of seeing those messages. The people that care about what Debian is posting are almost certainly already on Mastadon.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the EFF's messaging is just not going to get through to anyone still on Twitter.

Remember, it's not a fair forum; it's an algorithm. And it's not going to show the EFF to users who need to see it.

[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

From their mastodon:

EFF exists to protect people's digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think sane people say the opposite - perfect is the enemy of good. OCD motherfuckers like me try to rationalize perfect as not being the enemy of good, but we are usually wrong.