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internet george 1h ago

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X

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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dirk Hohndel 1h ago

@evacide
finally
there's no excuse for being on Xitter.
Thank you

internet george 1h ago

@evacide took way too long

Jennifer 88 - ME🏳️‍⚧️1h ago

@evacide While I understand their explanation for why they stay on big tech corpos platforms, it's been years now since we've seen first hand that's extremely counterintuitive: when you stay somewhere, you give a reason for others to stay too, and in the end, there's no move.

Yay!!!

brendan (ジャンク品)1h ago

@evacide hell yeah this rocks

Congratulations on no longer having to check Xitter.

@Voline Fortunately, checking the EFF social media accounts has not been part of my job in many, many years.

Congratulations to whichever poor staffer you've got on social media duty like the kid from Omelas.

evacide 51m ago

@Voline The person who runs our social media is an absolute treasure and they must be protected at all costs.

Pino Carafa 1h ago

@evacide I know it takes a while for their site to catch up but it's still a bit "eewww" to see that "X" link at the bottom 🤔

winstonsmith 1h ago

@evacide fucking amen. why is this taking everyone sooo long? also, substack sucks. buh-bye

sherbang 1h ago

@evacide about time! If you asked me before reading this, I would have assumed they'd already done it by now!

Kevin Karhan 1h ago

@evacide it's called #Shitter!

Alan Buxey 56m ago

@evacide finally! I'll now follow them on here and on BlueSky

Lee from Colorado 36m ago

At this point, no one and no organization get points for leaving xtwitter.
But they do stop self-humiliating if they do so.

@evacide Took long enough.

@evacide all of the "what took you so long" comments make me think people don't understand what the EFF does.