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To the people saying things like "what took you so long", I think you're missing the point. They even address this in the post:

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 and subjected to their corporate surveillance.

When the ship is sinking, there's some value in someone staying behind to help people get off. That's not the same as generating value for Shitter.

People leaving Twitter now is not very impressive. Less "seeing the light" and more "Trumpgret".

I'll remind you that the Debian project left Twitter over a year ago. So the EFF isn't as fast moving or comfortable with change like ... Debian.

On to Wayland I guess.

an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago

the town square lmao

What the everliving fuck were they still doing there

Another reason why they stayed there for years is not only it's one of many channels for which to impart their news about their activities or telling users they have individual right to privacy, with fucking Musk now in charge, their presence sought to challenge that bastard's grip upon social media. Likewise, neither the UN nor Al-Jazeera are yet leaving the platform for the sake of informing the world and the oppressed in general, despite these organizations being opposed to right-wing warmongering, lying, and mafia capitalism, and Musk and those goddamned bots in response trying to harass or reduce their presence.

Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.

About fucking time.

I missed the "X" in that title, and read "EFF is leaving the Electronic Freedom Foundation," and was very confused.

ITT: people thinking that people already on the fediverse are the ones that the EFF needs to reach

As a South African this confused the shit out of me at first.

I thought it was the hateful political party the Economic Freedom Fighters, who chant things like "Kill the Boer" at their rallies

Well, better late than never.

Just call it Twitter

I’m surprised they were still there until this point. But yeah, good for them.