alt Hacker Newshttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
They say the typical post on X receives 3M impressions vs. 100M impressions in years past. They're a national organization, those 3M impressions might only be 100k actual people in a country of 400M. They do say that ideology was part of the motivation but it makes sense that they aren't going to invest the time in a platform that reaches a negligible number of people.
It makes sense that they use FOSS decentralized stuff like Mastodon despite the low reach; using Mastodon is an end unto itself. Twitter was just an advertising tool that wasn't working for them.
Thanks for one of the few rationale responses. However, maybe I’m naive, but how much more work is it to manage one more social media account?