@dfern.eth

Now, for my two wei/cents: Multiple things can be true at the same time. Of course, I want decentralized social to win. This was true before Elon took over Twitter. None of my arguments have changed: social media is too important for one person to be running the digital town square. Your username is never yours, and accounts being stolen by employees happens all the time. The problem is that the EFF isn't leaving X because they believe in decentralized social...it's that Elon is in charge, Elon is right-wing, they are left-wing (formerly left-libertarian)...Twitter banning accounts for the most farcical woke reasons was hunky-dory, but now X is a 'Nazi bar' (hyperbolic, but the algo is tilted towards bait/noise) that plays favorites with rightwingers and ragebaiters, the current EFF staff don't believe in conversations with rightwingers anymore...so it's time to go. It's the same reason why the EFF was basically out to lunch on the Tornado Cash / Roman Storm case while they spent all their time & donor money battling Ring doorbells. As I said, multiple things can be true: 1. Elon made some asymmetric bets that paid off, but his brain has been fried by covid + the internet. Not everything he touches turns to gold, see Solar City. 2. The EFF is free to be more staunchly partisan, but they also don't get to throw a hissy fit when people point out how unprincipled it is. 3. The EFF is making a bet that they don't need non-leftwing support (e.g. libertarian/classic liberal/right). Elon made a bet that he could sell EVs to republicans in Texas. My bet is that both the EFF and Elon are wrong and they will have to eat crow, so to speak.

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