Soatok Dreamseeker
Electronic Frontier FoundationAfter 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. 🧵 (1/5)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
Twitter was never a utopia. We've criticized the platform for about as long as it's been around. Still, Twitter did deserve recognition from time to time for vociferously fighting for its users' rights. That changed. (2/5)
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. (3/5)
Our continued presence on other platforms like Facebook and TikTok is not an endorsement. We stay because the people there deserve access to info, too. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you need to protect yourself, the better. (4/5)
When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we’re here to help you take back control. https://eff.org/donate (5/5)
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤@eff
Your message is ambiguous. You say that the fight for users' digital rights is no longer happening on #TwitterX, but you don't elaborate. Why isn't the fight there? Is TwitterX finally a safe place or is it too far gone to be saved? I suspect the latter, but I hope you'd be more specific in your post.
Your message is ambiguous. You say that the fight for users' digital rights is no longer happening on #TwitterX, but you don't elaborate. Why isn't the fight there? Is TwitterX finally a safe place or is it too far gone to be saved? I suspect the latter, but I hope you'd be more specific in your post.
wsha@sloanlance @eff There is more info in the link. Basically, the X algorithm makes it hard to get visibility so it is no longer worth the effort.
MeaningfulBits@sloanlance @eff the algorithm is too heavily manipulated for the interest of one individual.
inmate of dog panopticon@sloanlance @eff it's more spelled out in the article at the top of the thread
basically since musk took over twitter, their tweets are averaging only 3% of the views that they got in 2018
ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /# ▯@sloanlance @eff Twitter/Twitters algorithm is basically censoring their posts, so they might as well be gone altogether.
Toni Aittoniemi@eff Feels like the right decision to me!
Achim Mueller@eff Beating tyrants works best using their own weapons : reinventing the past with sweet #narratives. This is what happened with crypto after #Bitcoin's inventor Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared from public communication space in December 2010. It was redefined and highjacked for any kind of scam. I recently closed my X account and start again here because viral campaigns are harder to control on a decentralized open source platform. Stay with facts but don't get too close to opinion mainstream.
Ryoma123
Kevin Karhan@eff consider redirecting folks from there to the #Fediverse…
Stullekovski
Pino Carafa@eff Good, and I see your point. But l would also suggest that, while you're still on such platforms, you also heavily promote "follow us on Mastodon". Every little bit helps.
Amorpheus@rozeboosje @eff I joined the fediverse because someone I valued very much posted on reddit that he will move here and if people wanted to be informed any further by him, they should follow. So I did. Never had an account on reddit, but for that guy, I was willing to sign up for social media for the first time.
I'm pretty sure your move will have an even larger impact. Thank you guys.
Lead by example, then people will follow.
BillSame except for someone formerly on Xitter.
WorldTravelerAll7yes! exactly this💙💯
People who #Resist need to think more strategically about media
promote our own; grow our own
i used to see BTC repost his ex-twitter posts on bsky, like, Look what i said on that site where the conversations occur. i'll share it w/ you, too. 🤮
That is ass backwards! (honestly i don't think he read a single post trying to get him to stop. glad i'm here now)
let's promote the #Fediverse 💙
let's promote #Mastodon 💙
#BreakTheOligarchy ‼️
••••••••@WorldTravelerAll7 @eff loops is in beta & not good?
i think #Loops is great💙 I use it (same moniker 😉). but i've never used tiktok, so i don't have a great reference
but i wish some "angel" investors would put $ into the #Fediverse & #FOSS just bc it's the right thing for humanity. i know they all need funding
i want to see blue💙 alternatives to Amazon, YT, FB, etc
Conny Nasch
Laukidh
ferricoxide@eff
It feels like those who are most likely to follow an organization like EFF on X have mostly departed X for other alternatives (be that Fedi, Threads, BSKY or elsewhere).
It feels like those who are most likely to follow an organization like EFF on X have mostly departed X for other alternatives (be that Fedi, Threads, BSKY or elsewhere).
@eff now lobby local and state governments to do the same.
When I get an amber or silver alert from my police department on my phone I shouldn't get a pop up that covers the information as soon as the page loads. I shouldn't need an x.com account to read the information in the comments.
NerdNextDoor 
Em 
degenerating degenerate@eff Good job!
💀 𝓕airchild 💀@eff It's way overdue, TBH, for you and others. But still appreciate you doing it at all.
Stefan Bohacek
stony kark@eff @Em0nM4stodon wow, how brave
Mathaetaes@eff Finally!
I never understood why you guys stayed at the nazi bar so long after it was apparent to everyone that it was a nazi bar... but better late than never.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░@eff Quite a few years later than I'd have liked, but still glad to see it.
Katherine 🪴@eff It's a shame since Twitter was such a big part of my fandom years and early internet years. I hate seeing Twitter die but it needs to happen. I hope a combination of fediverse, ATProto, and RSS can fill the void.
Doodles
Sobri | Zoe (she/her)@eff it is overdue but better late than never
Nine Stones Close@eff about time, and avoid BlueSky like the plague too.
Miha Markič@NineStonesClose @eff why would they as they don't have problems with fb and TikTok?
@eff under the transparency and moderation thing, I thought the link said Santa Claus principle. Not Santa Clara. Lol
Simon Walters@eff Well done :-)
Miguel
disorderlyf@eff You...were still on Twitter?
@eff Like I'm glad you're off it, best time to do it was yesterday but the best time is today and all that, but I was shocked to hear you hadn't already jumped ship.
rickf
Nick
JaimeTaiChi@eff I support this choice! Keep at it!
izzy | Technically Good ✨@eff yeeeeeees! 👏
Fubaroque@eff You may want to talk about it on Twitter, but mentioning it here seems, ehm... unnecesary. 😘
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESwhy? it's a general announcement, probably across all platforms
RejZoR@eff I only had X for corporate contacts when everything else failed to contact companies for things and I decided to delete it the moment Donald Trump got endorsed and elected by Elon. Besides, Twitter has been shit in its last years and just got absolutely the worst when Elon took over. Nothing of worth was lost. I switched to Mastodon and never looked back. I just skipped BlueSky because it's the same shit as Twitter was.
AARS
cpm
Colin McMillen@eff I have read the post thoroughly, searching for the reason you leave, and I've tried, but I really can't find any other reason that this?
the declining number of views is due to a fascist manchild fucking with the algorithm, yes
so the eff left, yes
and?
why do you feel an edgelord need to frame a good move for the right reason in a facile, whiny, mindlessly cynical fashion?
well they left twitter. surely you think that's a good thing. then you want to applaud that, no?
or is every news item a chance to be negative?
what we do to improve the world is applaud good moves and castigate bad moves
castigating good moves and castigating bad moves just means no one listens to you because you have no effective position