Just call it Twitter
Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.
You mean perfect is the enemy of good?
Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.
Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.
What stand have you ever made?
I made a mug stand in woodwork once.
On to Wayland I guess.
Another reason why they stayed there for years is not only it’s one of many channels for which to impart their news about their activities or telling users they have individual right to privacy, with fucking Musk now in charge, their presence sought to challenge that bastard’s grip upon social media. Likewise, neither the UN nor Al-Jazeera are yet leaving the platform for the sake of informing the world and the oppressed in general, despite these organizations being opposed to right-wing warmongering, lying, and mafia capitalism, and Musk in response trying to reduce their presence.
Yet they stayed after the CEO of X did a Nazi salute on TV.
I have little respect for this.
It’s taking way to long for people to leave twitter, just leave
To the people saying things like “what took you so long”, I think you’re missing the point. They even address this in the post:
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 and subjected to their corporate surveillance.
When the ship is sinking, there’s some value in someone staying behind to help people get off. That’s not the same as generating value for Shitter.
As for why they did decide to leave now, they explain that their posts are being viewed by significantly less people now than in the past, so there is basically nobody left to help off the sinking ship any more.
The traffic seems well ranked still. Maybe concerns of algorithmic censorship? As an example, X.com now promotes posts from premium users, and then has an extra promotion mode for premium+ users. (Normal users are now much less visible than premium users)
Ppl on Lemmy don’t get the preaching to the choir is not how you grow
Yeah, it’s not a trivial problem to solve either, especially if platforms censor mentions of decentralized alternatives.
However, it’s hard for the oligarchs to censor the fact that an organization like EFF exists, and hopefully someone clicks on one of their posts and reads something on their blog about decentralized alternatives.
an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago
the town square lmao
“Free speech absolutionist”
*abolitionist
Damn… we all should have known elon can’t spell.
obligatory self pat on my own shoulder: left my 30k followers when elon took over
Well, better late than never.
Overdue
X.org in shambles
We’ve all moved over to Wayland already…
Again??
They left Twitter and then went back? When? I didn’t hear about that.
What the everliving fuck were they still doing there
Trying to help people that didn’t know about the alternatives.
Not sure the best place to discuss peace and love is at a Nazi rally.
It’s certainly the place that needs the message the most, though the chances anyone would listen is virtually zero.
Yeah, everyone knows the key to popular Revolution is a small collection of insular ML reading groups /s
Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can
How long do you stay on a platform before the outreach to new people is outweighed by implicit support of the platform?
It’s a tough call. It is difficult to reach out to outsiders and talk to them but it’s the only way to have a conversation with them.
