Comment by peyton
3 hours ago
I mean if you look at their Twitter feed, it is just “copy and paste this announce to every platform".
Having run a big account, I can see they’re making a lot of mistakes.
TBH their Twitter is really, really bad. I don’t think Elon Musk personally has to put his finger on any scale. I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?
> I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?
Musk is a freedom of speech absolutist when it comes to the things he has to say. ‘I think that the bedrock of democracy is freedom of speech’ [1].
He has rather different views when it’s anyone else speaking [2].
[1] https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-oloha...
[2]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...
On a decent social platform, it shouldn't even matter if their posting sucks or is lazy. If I followed them, I want to see their stuff. If I'm not seeing the posts of the accounts I follow, the site is not worth me using - same if ppl who explicitly followed me aren't seeing my posts.
> I don’t think Elon Musk personally has to put his finger on any scale. I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?
Not sure why you would say that, I know he’s branded himself as a tech guy but beyond that nothing about the EFF seems to match his values.
The EFF tried to sue him last year too: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments...
Maybe, I haven’t been keeping up since the cracker machine stuff. I thought EFF was a GNU-adjacent thing any generic tech person supported. I guess I was wrong.
The thing is, unless their posts have only gotten bad recently, it's reasonable to assume that the drop in traffic is unrelated to post quality. Algorithms, changing audiences, etc. become better explanations.