EFF is Leaving X
www.eff.org
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.
      • amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org
        31·
        11 hours ago

        They’re the kinds of people that need to be on corporate platforms or else alarm bells start going off in their heads.

        They don’t think, they just act.

        • GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.mlOP
          41·
          11 hours ago

          Corporate platforms get much more coverage on media. How many articles are there about diaspora, friendica, mastodon or lemmy? I guess very few.

  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    91·
    21 hours ago

    The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don’t understand why they’re still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don’t even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

    Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don’t remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don’t they wake up?

    I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were “trapped” by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there’s an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

    EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I’m in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the “f”, the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.