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by Ir0nMan4 hours ago |
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upvoteby mort964 hours ago|
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> you could just post less or use it for major updates

Why?

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upvoteby Brendinooo3 hours ago|
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If you think something like "open source is good" or "patent trolling is bad" and you want to advocate for those things, you should want to maximize your reach and do what you can to demonstrate that these are not inherently partisan issues, because if people start to perceive that the things that the EFF cares about are bound up with partisan ideology, then it will be dismissed as such.

(It's also buying into the narrative that X is a ideological monolith. It, of course, is not. But it does lean a different way than other major social media platforms, which means there's a unique opportunity to speak to a different kind of audience!)

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upvoteby mort9652 minutes ago|
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I don't think there's much value in X here.
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upvoteby dijit4 hours ago|
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because it’s a marketing channel/feed, just like any other.

meeting people where they are doesn’t inherently mean you support where they are. You just meet the people themselves.

It’s not like X is really gaining anything from the EFF, so it feels a little bit performative. Sure.

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upvoteby orwin3 hours ago|
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Do you have the API access on twitter back? because if not, it's not like any other. it's more bothersome to power users. I thought people on HN of all places would understand that.
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upvoteby dijit3 hours ago|
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Idk, I have to use Microsoft utilities for work (yay! game development!), and I feel like opening twitter and pasting something is lower friction than trying to do Teams automation.
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upvoteby orwin3 hours ago|
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Good luck, worked on that a few weeks ago actually. Once you get it working though, you can just forget it (that's what i did).

For twitter and EFF, it's a work account, so probably 2FA with a timeout. You have to connect to it, pass the 2FA, then click, then copy paste. Or you can just log in to your tool, and post simultaneously on linkedin/mastodon (i don't know about the others, never used them). If your tool is well integrated, you can also just post on your company blog, and all social media wiht a public API are updated at the same time. TBH i don't really use social media, but i understand the "it's not big enough to loose 10 minutes each day, let's drop it if they don't fix their shitty API".

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upvoteby ericmay4 hours ago|
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It just seems like they are unhappy with the algorithm, and like any customer for any service you can cancel service, say why you are canceling service, and move to alternatives especially when your concerns aren't addressed.

Then again, who cares one way or the other?

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upvoteby kjksf3 hours ago|
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And yet they post on Bluesky and Mastodon. If it's about effort vs. impressions, leaving X doesn't sound like a rational decision.
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upvoteby ericmay3 hours ago|
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Seems like they prefer those platforms and perhaps the algorithm works better for their goals. Maybe they'll grow users over time and it'll be better for the EFF on a post/engagement ratio. Maybe more engaging users are on those platforms? I'm not fan of Bluesky (interactions I've seen are racist and/or far-left lunatics or communists and other such water heads), but then again who cares where they post?
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upvoteby staplers4 hours ago|
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We all perform everyday. Those performances eventually become our identity and influence our actions.
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