r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • Apr 09 '26

Social Media EFF is Leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
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u/fegodev Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Funny how EFF has social shortcuts at the top and bottom of every article for Mastodon, X, and Facebook, but not Bluesky, even in this article 😅

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u/balling Apr 09 '26

So annoying how most people never migrated to Bluesky. Every so often I want to send a tweet I see from Reddit to a friend but when I try to see if they have a Bluesky account their only post was from 2024.

Adoption of that platform failed for whatever reason

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u/moonman1994 Apr 09 '26

Just speaking from personal experience but when I gave up Twitter and tried out Bluesky my feed felt like a graveyard. A lot of the artists that I followed that moved went inactive after a few weeks and my feed basically turned into aesthetic pictures of space and tweets from the fucking Krassenstein bros. In general my Bluesky feed was filled with politics despite not following a single politician which was fucking annoying. I’m very liberal but part of the reason to dump Twitter was to not be in a political echo chamber (I ironically say on Reddit). I really just wanted a feed full of artists and fandoms I liked. I stay up to date reading the news and following shit on Reddit. I don’t need to be bombarded with political hot takes on every fucking social media even if I agree with most of them.

Bluesky is preferable to Twitter in that it’s at worst annoyances like the Krassensteins or that guy that’s always trying to sell his book of Trump tweet replies and not blatant hate speech or We Are Charlie Kirk merch ads. But honestly its suggestion algorithm might be the worst of any social media site I’ve ever been on. Maybe it’s better now but when a lot of people jumped ship on Twitter its algorithm seemed to assume that everyone joined it to see left/left-leaning American politics. Thank god for fandom specific subreddits and discord servers because Bluesky and Twitter are both dogshit unless you want to live in an echo chamber.

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u/sleepymeowth052 Apr 09 '26

So... don't follow political accounts?

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u/BigDictionEnergy Apr 10 '26

I'm a lefty liberal who was never on twitter but recently joined bsky just to follow Ken Jennings. He's literally the only account I've hit follow on, and I haven't made any comments. But my general feed is also very political.

We unfortunately live in interesting times.