You will be unsurprised to learn that EFF's decision to leave the site formerly known as Twitter is not popular over on the site formerly known as Twitter.

@evacide not popular as in people on twitter are upset about it?

Honestly I thought whoever was left over there wouldn’t even notice

@scott @evacide A surprising number of people still haven't managed to catch a clue. They have a billion and one excuses why they should still be there and every single one of them is ignoring the screaming in their face "you're on a nazi platform you idiot!!!"

@nazokiyoubinbou

Yeah, metoo. More thsn one friend, those who actually know better, say, "oh they know everything about me anyway" as the current excuse. A hipster version of "I've got nothing to hide". WTF

@scott @evacide

@tomjennings @scott @evacide Oh yeah, I hear that one a lot these days. Obviously it wasn't ok for the platforms to gather that info without permission, but somehow their minds skip over that.

Though in this case the issue is less whatever info the platform is gathering about them (Meta is *MUCH* scarier!) and more the fact that as long as people keep making excuses not to leave, they're *helping* the nazi platform. It should already be dead...

The same platform that ultimately will hurt them.

@nazokiyoubinbou
It baffles me being part of a project community for over a decade, which is dedicated to decentralisation, privacy, security, FOSS and democratisation and yet they're all...

- still on Twitter
- many accept or like Musk (eg bec rockets)
- the project and they are all in on LLMs, barely any dissenters (eg bec the founder is a "genius")

The dissonance is deafening. Why? IDK but it's deeply concerning. Most tolerate my dissent because I did so much for years.

@scott @evacide

@evacide So Russia is mad about the EFF leaving? I'm ok with that
@evacide To be fair, nothing is popular on x. I've never encountered so many banal contrarians high on cortisol.
@evacide
Shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU!
@evacide on the other hand, on the network now known as mastodon the decision seems to be fairly well regarded? 🤔
@evacide Sometimes you just gotta say Bye! (Bye! Bye!) ✌🏾
@evacide JFC, how many years of this does it take for people to finally get it?
@evacide eh, anyone left over there can die mad about it 💁‍♀️

@evacide

I don't like this step too. Twitter is much more important than Bluesky.

@izby @evacide Huh, what leads you to that conclusion?
Afaik there are quite a number of articles about why Twitter isnt worth being on anymore

@Numerfolt

But no one similar article about Bluesky, right? What does that mean?

@izby I havent searched for any articles about Bluesky regarding that question, therefore I dont know.
But from your comment I assume that you basically mean:
Twitter isnt worth being on, but neither is Bluesky. And Bluesky is even less worth being on than Twitter.

Did I get that right?

@evacide Another case of ‘sucks to be them’

@evacide It's good that you left that cesspool. I'm a little surprised it took so long.

Musk's Twitter stands against everything the EFF is fighting for, platform neutrality most of all. They abuse the so-called "Community Notes" to push far right propaganda. They give a blue check to every trollbot. Their algorithm sorts comments to put the worst of them first.

At least, so it was when I left. I never actually looked back, but I doubt things are any better now.

@evacide Which goes to show it was the right decision.
@evacide hard to believe that any of them were following EFF.
@evacide Was that response a general Xitter thing, a whine by the ketamine addict who controls Xitter, or the former caused by the latter?
@evacide EFF? The Electronic Frontier Foundation? Why did you stay? Twitter officially ceased to exist on October 27, 2022.
@evacide the site formerly known as Twitter that's full of nazis and Russian bots? Weird.
@evacide To quote John Oliver, "Or as it's known now, Twitter."
@evacide It still hasn't sunk in huh

@evacide

Can't say it's "popular" with me either, because it's 2026 and I stopped caring about folks "discovering" now it might be a good idea to leave.

@evacide oh the ones who says they are not Nazis but hanging out whenever possible in the popular Nazi bar, buying only top shelf, over priced snacks while watching all the ads they serve and feeding its BS generator monster to while its Nazi owner is becoming the first trillionaire... are they still shouting they aren't Nazis from the rooftops? What a surprise.
@evacide I always fuck that part up.

@evacide

hard to promote freedom in a place that actively hates freedom

@evacide being upset is a 'them' problem, not a 'me' problem.

Sad, the things people cling to.

If they are standing in a puddle, they should not be upset about wet feet.

@evacide
Fk them....Nazitter can crash and burn
@evacide The orange site is also having a very normal one about it.
@evacide I'm shocked, shocked.
@evacide but well done for EFF to explain the reasoning for staying as long as you did and why you still stay on other platforms that individuals are advised to leave.