RE: mastodon.social/@eff/116375694…
Having no algorithm also shows actual interested people instead of spoon fed
“To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.”
After 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)
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-…EFF is Leaving X
After 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.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •I think it's the right decision, but it's something that they're making it off of non-credible "post impressions" metrics from the platform itself.
Ad-supported platforms charge advertisers based on those metrics, and keeping them puffed up bring in money. Have platform metrics ever been trustworthy? Who's been auditing them? Advertisers? Definitely not.
Steve Glover
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •This is why "AI" evangelists have a tough time on the fedi: people, left to their own devices to talk among themselves (as opposed to being spoonfed every positive comment by a manipulative algorithm), will collectively reach the conclusion that the cost-benefit analysis for this tech simply doesn't add up.
Unlike chatbots, the EFF are important and necessary, and a threat to the tech broligarchy. Of course they can't gain traction on a platform that dampens their reach. 🤷🏻♂️
SpaceLifeForm
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Jamoteusz
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •BRAVO!
FREE OUR MINDS!
Taran Rampersad
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •and it doesn't all happen at the same time.
Sometimes things float up days, weeks or months later.
We get to explore here. It's wonderful. 🙃