Post #1243628 · Elektrine

2026-04-09 17:38 UTC

This is not a contest to be holier than thou. It's a numbers game. EFF stayed on Twitter because it has a larger audience and that means a larger portion of people will see their messaging. In fact, I would argue that the people that are still on Twitter are the ones most in need of seeing those messages. The people that care about what Debian is posting are almost certainly already on Mastadon.

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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-10 15:37

Did it though? EFF says that the number of impressions their content received is why they left: > Those [2018] tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. Then > Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. But, I wonder what the real numbers actually are. Do we think Elon is honestly reporting real numbers to people? And, of the "impressions" that are real, how many of those are actually from bots rather than actual human users? IMO, one of the biggest tricks Elon has managed to pull with Twitter is to convince celebrities and brands that it's still a thriving site full of other people, leading to them sticking around because supposedly no other site gets as much traffic.

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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 17:48

I feel like the EFF's messaging is just not going to get through to anyone *still* on Twitter. Remember, it's not a fair forum; it's an algorithm. And it's not going to show the EFF to users who need to see it.

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