I am a donor and the EFF post feels performative and political. They still post to Flickr!

Maybe most people here are social platform agnostic and thus EFF's limply constructed reasoning does not make make much sense for a brand trying to maximise their audience. Unless EFF are not platform agnostic and hold some view of the kinds of social platforms they are on. Then this EFF action makes sense.

>The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.

Have the costs to post to X grown too high? The salary of someone with the technical know-how to work the social media platform is too expensive? How does the math compare with Mastodon? Do you know about buffer.com?

I started giving to EFF about 10 years ago. It's pretty much the first and only organization I have regularly given to. It always felt like a non-political organization focused squarely on the right to access. Especially with its support of the Tor project. But this news has me confused and other commenters seem to be seeing virtue signaling or politically motivation.

>I started giving to EFF about 10 years ago. It's pretty much the first and only organization I have regularly given to.

I'm in the same boat - not 10 years, but regularly, and a significant amount of money (for me).

I'm a bit confused now. Their post is absolutely not convincing (for the reasons you outlined - tweeting does not cost anything, and despite what they say they clearly get a lot of outreach there). I think I'll evaluate their achievements with more scrutiny before my next yearly donation.

Most people don't look at the Board of Directors.

And while I respect everyone on it for their achievements, from their own bios and other political work they're involved in you can clearly tell which stated goal is in service of another.

I've met and spoken to at least half of them and...yeah.

John Gilmore is gone. Brad Templeton is gone. John Perry Barlow is dead. The civil libertarian bent that the organization began with is long gone.

EFF is a Ship of Theseus like any other.

Your first sentence is key. Most people don't look behind the green curtain, but it's often where you find who the really important people in the org are.

There was a recent leadership change at the EFF

It's always been political, but it used to be non-partisan.

I believe "non-political" to Americans means not participating in the blue/red thing.

Right. "Non-partisan" might be a better way to put it, but that can also be misinterpreted as officially connected to a party.

Using Twitter in 2026 is a political statement. I don't consume it, but using Twitter would be supporting right wing extremism (or whatever you classify Musk as).

Maybe, but this is not what they claim in their post. Their official reason is that the numbers are not working out.

And even if that was the reason, that doesn't make sense. They're an activist organisation, their goal is to promote their ideas to people that need to hear them, and twitter users need that more than bluesky users.

Btw. I login to twitter once every few months to share my blog post or report. That's not a political statement.

I replied to a comment, not EFF. EFF is doing the correct thing, but very late. I'm not advocating for one platform over another.

It is indirectly a political statement to use Twitter. You are supporting Elon Musk who has made himself a central figure in extreme right wing political views.

There are tons of famous people on Twitter who I'm pretty sure are not doing it as a statement of Musk alignment. There's not really any other place they'd be.

It's my opinion that the most powerful weapon consumers have is the power to vote with your time and money. Using Twitter is voting to support Elon Musk whether intentional or not.

Yes it is. The people using Twitter despite this aren't doing it intentionally to support Musk, but it does help him.

Satoshi Nakamoto was likely created in response to the December 2005 raid of e-Gold in Florida by U.S. Secret Service/FBI, and other similar incidents. e-Gold was the largest Digital currency at the time clearly showed the dangers of centralization. Douglas Jackson's indictment occurred about 18 months before the Bitcoin whitepaper.

So the risk of centrally founding another digital currency was clear at the time and e-Gold was discussed by both Back and Finney.

Launching without a single point of failure, a single arrestable founder was critical to the success of Bitcoin.

Biggest take away - 90 million acres in the US go to corn/ethanol production. 31 acres of corn for ethanol to match the energy production of just 1 acre of solar panels. Revenue could be 3-4x that of corn production. Get ready for rise of the photon farmers.

We are living thru the 'doctors prescribing cigarettes' era of lucrative fear-mongering.

Youtube has this model with Preimum. If Chrome rolled out Chrome Premium, (and copied the Brave BAT model of paying sites you give attention to), I'd be happy to pay.

You'd love Brave browser then.

electrek.co recent Tesla headline summary with sentiment:

  (negative) Tesla to stop selling Full Self-Driving package, moves to subscription-only

  (negative) Elon Musk says Tesla 'almost done' with AI5 design, 6 months after saying it was 'finished'

  (negative) Tesla's full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath

  (neutral)  Tesla updates 2026 Model Y with new features, launches tiny third row in the US

  (positive) Tesla launches US-made solar panel, a rare sign of life for its solar business

  (negative) Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for 'safe unsupervised' FSD

  (negative) Are Tesla Gigafactory Berlin's days numbered?

  (negative) Elon Musk shows total ignorance of Tesla's current falling sales trajectory

  (negative) Tesla rolls out 0% financing to boost declining sales

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) releases Q4 delivery results: confirms decline in sales is accelerating

  (negative) Tesla Cybercabs spotted testing, unsurprisingly with steering wheels

  (negative) Elon Musk's top 5 Tesla predictions for 2025 that didn't happen

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) does something unusual ahead of Q4 delivery results

  (negative) Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission

  (negative) Tesla's Robotaxi project in Austin is much smaller than Musk claims

  (neutral)  Tesla Robotaxi spotted without a safety driver in Austin; Musk confirms testing begins

  (negative) Tesla US sales drop to under 40,000 units following tax credit expiration

  (neutral)  Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims driverless Robotaxis coming to Austin in 3 weeks

  (positive) Tesla announces 2025 holiday update with a few cool features

  (negative) Tesla (TSLA) sales keep crashing in Europe with a single market temporarily saving it

But is that electrec's or Tesla's fault?

So Seth Weintraub sold $TSLA at $35 a share in Jan 2020. Today $467. Then Seth missed out on gains of 1,200%. And Fred selling in Sep, 2024 missed out on 100% gains.