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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!)

by mort9648 minutes ago|

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I don't think there's much value in X here.

by dijit3 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.

by 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.

by 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.

by 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".