Matv1
evacideEFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
Dirk Hohndel@evacide
finally
there's no excuse for being on Xitter.
Thank you
internet george@evacide took way too long
Jennifer 88 - ME🏳️⚧️@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.
Coralie Mercier@transcendentempress @evacide yes, this! 👆
jz.tusk
brendan (ジャンク品)@evacide hell yeah this rocks
Voline@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.
@Voline The person who runs our social media is an absolute treasure and they must be protected at all costs.
PrivacyDigest@evacide @Voline
If you have a rational social media person who can survive the turmoil of Twitter you have a unicorn. 🦄
Twitter was my first social media site, but I had to leave shortly after Elon Musk took it over. It had been going downhill but that was just too far.
Disagreeing with me I can handle, but repeatedly doing the equivalent of trying to convince me that the moon is made of Swiss cheese was just not worth the effort( for me).
Pino Carafa@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@evacide fucking amen. why is this taking everyone sooo long? also, substack sucks. buh-bye
sherbang
Kevin Karhan
Alan Buxey@evacide finally! I'll now follow them on here and on BlueSky
Lee from Colorado@evacide Good.
At this point, no one and no organization get points for leaving xtwitter.
But they do stop self-humiliating if they do so.
TheMagicalC
jen@cwg1231 @colo_lee @evacide I haven't read the blog post yet, and I def agree it should have happened waaaaay sooner. But I also think there should be a path for redemption in most cases of wrongdoing. Maybe that path requires a bit more than a late exit from a harmful platform. I don't know. But I'm glad they finally left. It shows others they can still leave too.
WesDym
Mike@evacide all of the "what took you so long" comments make me think people don't understand what the EFF does.
Jeremy ⁂
Carlos SolísI dunno, it does sound contradictory to stick to FB/IG/YT/etc. and drop only Twitter/X, if the intent is to keep their engagement with people on social networks. Unless they consider X, and only X, as an unsalvageable environment, with the rest still being somewhat tolerable - I wonder how long will they keep the pretense?
edsanders2I think you're looking at it the wrong way, they aren't dropping off Twitter because Twitter is hot garbage (even though it is), they're dropping off Twitter because it's no longer worth expending their resources to communicate there..
A. P. Howell@evacide It's 2026. Nobody needs to explain why they've left X. Not do we need to explain why we're side-eying the folks who stayed so long on X (and, for that matter, Facebook and others).
SellaTheChemist@evacide Finally!
W6KME
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@benroyce @evacide 1/2 Calling me sanctimonious is wrong and utterly counter to the statement you just made. Talk about shooting your own foot.
For several years, it has been clear what Twitter was, and anyone quitting today was able to accept that for this long. Insulting me changes nothing. There is no way to pretend that didn't happen, even if we are relieved they made the right decision eventually.
Obviously, their decision was not based upon the right reasons; that ship a;ready sailed.
Anomalous Human@evacide Well done. Thank you.
Angela Scholder@evacide Finally!
Detun3d
Niavy 
Joan of Contention 😷@evacide I'm sorry that it took so long, but very, very happy to hear this. Thank you.
waffles 🇨🇦I dont know why this couldn’t have simply been an Irish goodbye.
Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)@evacide About damned time.
Peter N. M. Hansteen@evacide I applaud their decision, even if I would have appreciated if it had come sooner.
OTOH I can sort of understand hanging around there just to have a sort of sensor there.
I tried that for a while myself but just could not take it anymore soon after everyone was forced to follow the musk. There was just too much nazi noise and no workable away to filter out the crap.
Patrick.sh@evacide love to see it.
Michael McWilliams@evacide
I applaud everyone who leaves the platform formerly known as Twitter.
I applaud everyone who leaves the platform formerly known as Twitter.
@iveyline
Kaito
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