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

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

took you long enough.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Honestly wonder if it was due to that interview with Jon Stewart where an EFF representative was basically told that if you're not on Twitter (X) you're not relevant to the discussion, effectively. While I don't agree with that, I think that the EFF not leading by example means it's hard to argue that other people should leave to bluseky or mastodon.

[–] ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I get the network effect, but there was a very clear line on Twitter and anyone still there are absolutely part of the problem no matter their justification.