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Brand reputation. Every brand that chooses to use X implicitly supports X, even if they're not verified & paying X money.
Does anyone seriously think EFF posting to X yesterday tarnished their brand? Be real.
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> Is the contention here that there is more censorship on X compared to Twitter pre acquisition? That's easy to sustain. Pre-acquisition: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 Post-acquisition: https://x.com/elonjet
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Agreed. The fact that their Threads account[0] is still active (remember that site? yeah, me neither, I had forgotten it existed until I saw it linked on eff.org's socials page) makes it clear that the opening statement about "the numbers not working out" is deceptive. You have to scroll down a bit further to find their real reason for preferring those sites: > people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers…
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Nothing recent made me feel quite as old and out of the loop more as the slowness with which I realized that this is about x.com (Twitter), not x.org (the windowing system).
That statement pretty clearly shows that they have certain ideological concerns that they value more highly than the kind of stuff we tend to think the EFF primarily cares about (digital privacy, open source, patent trolling, etc). Through that lens, I guess it makes sense that they see TikTok, Instagram, and BlueSky as worth their time and presence but not X.
freedom is intersectional. it's hard to fight for freedom while supporting those that actively limit the freedom of others, especially when the amount of impressions are no longer worth doing it for
Good. Now leave TikTok and Facebook as well. People who care will find out what you are up to, and people who don't won't see you on social media anyway. I left Twitter, Facebook, et al about a decade ago. And I can assure you: You will never miss any important development. The notion that we need to plugged into Twitter, X, whatever, to stay up to date is simply false.
Astounds me that anyone is still using that platform after seeing how Musk treated the engineers when he took over.
I'm more astounded that people think every single part of it is a cesspool when in reality there are gems to be found that aren't in any other X alternative like Bluesky or Mastodon or (lol) Threads.
That statement pretty clearly shows that they have certain ideological concerns that they value more highly than the kind of stuff we tend to think the EFF primarily cares about (digital privacy, open source, patent trolling, etc). Through that lens, I guess it makes sense that they see TikTok, Instagram, and BlueSky as worth their time and presence but not X.
Of course they care about ideological concerns.