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This reads as very performative. You don't have to choose between posting 10 times a day or deleting your account; you could just post less or use it for major updates.

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Performative expression is critical. You need to actually do the thing you believe and if it is of political significance say it and do it visibly. Otherwise there is no impact.

If you do that constantly then people rightly start to write off your performances as insignificant. Everyone should pick their battles because we all have a limited number of fucks to give about what anyone else does.

Not being able to respond or comment to problems the foundation stands for on the most popular platform is... not that

There will not be any impact. + All activism is performative.

But then how would I know where to get more regular updates as somebody following them there? It used to be a bannable offense to even link to your presence on a competing side; not sure if it still is.

> It used to be a bannable offense to even link to your presence on a competing site

Huh? This sounds like you mean before elon "free speech!" musk but I can only imagine that, if it ever was a thing, it was a thing after. At some point a competitor's links were being blocked, a little 'oops'ie with 'the algorithm' of course. Facebook also pulled some of those over the years. I don't know about outright bans though, especially concerning Twitter before Musk

I can't tell if you're being satirical or if this is some 1984 re-writing of history, but Twitter definitely banned linking to other social media websites under Elon's rule.

> "We know that many of our users may be active on other social media platforms; however, going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms on Twitter," the company said in a statement.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/twitter-bans-linking-to...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/twitter-ban-soci...

You seem to have misunderstood them because they are saying the same thing.

Don't know why downvoted, this is correct. Thanks for pointing it out sooner than I got around to

> under Elon's rule

that's precisely what I assumed

Genuinely thanks for doing the effort of looking for sources and correcting someone you thought was wrong, but the allegation of me singlehandedly (just the thought! :D) trying to rewrite history maybe goes a bit far when I said it was just my assumption and that I don't know of such a thing before elonmusk took over

I think this is better than having an account with the last post being from 2019, with no explanation, looking dead, and still being able to receive messages from users.

You have to be performative about this. It’s like holding a sign while protesting, that’s the whole point.

Ah yes, classic advice. Remain neutral while the vile humans do not. You must be one of them.

well put. if their mission is to help protect vulnerable communities, and the effort to post on X is near zero ( it can be automated or take just a moment manually), they are betraying their mission to help protect as many vulnerable communities as possible.

That's not EFF's mission. They are not an organization that deals in helping vulnerable communities. They are an organization dedicated to improving electronic ownership and privacy.

At most, X only serves as a marketing/fundraising mechanism. Nothing more. And the EFF doesn't really need to do that as I'm certain their victories and fights will still be shared on X without them.

Advocacy and awareness is one of their primary efforts. And they are defending LGBT and abortion rights . Those aren’t abstract , those are for people

Should they also be posting on other ideologically similar sites such as Stormfront and Truth Social?

i doubt they have any reach or engagement there, so it's not germane to this decision.

Are explicit white supremacy, undermining of democratic values, and morality in general also “not germane to this decision”?

Are you saying that X / Twitter has more of that content than the other platforms they are remaining on like IG / Reels & Tiktok? Because IG/Reels in particular is notorious for that, and Tiktok used to be (but I haven't used it since the buyout)

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