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Re:EFF is leaving X by bakugo on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:51PM (#47706972)
Agreed. The fact that their Threads account[0] is still active (remember that site? yeah, me neither, I had forgotten it existed until I saw it linked on eff.org's socials page) makes it clear that the opening statement about "the numbers not working out" is deceptive.

You have to scroll down a bit further to find their real reason for preferring those sites:

> people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook every day

[0] https://www.threads.com/@efforg

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Re:EFF is leaving X by lux-lux-lux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:14PM (#47707332)
You’re a little behind the times, mate.

Threads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics trend younger, too.

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Re:EFF is leaving X by xigoi on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:48PM (#47707938)
I still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by kalleboo on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:53PM (#47712659)
I've also never seen a link to Facebook or Instagram but I wouldn't deny they're extremely popular. (last time I saw a link to Facebook was probably when Carmack was blogging there)
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Re:EFF is leaving X by satvikpendem on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:23PM (#47707503)
DAU for Threads is misleading, Meta seems to count impressions in Instagram where Threads sections sometimes show up. I personally know no one who uses Threads.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by lux-lux-lux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:47PM (#47707911)
> I personally know no one who uses Threads

Real ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.

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Re:EFF is leaving X by satvikpendem on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:51PM (#47708005)
That's why I didn't start off with that statement lest I be accused of anecdata which is fair. But it's true in my case. How many do you know that use Threads, especially on a regular basis?
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Re:EFF is leaving X by theshackleford on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:16PM (#47710257)
> I personally know no one who uses Threads.

I don’t know literally anyone using twitter and yet obviously people do.

Perhaps what the individuals we know are doing are in fact reflective of not very much.

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Re:EFF is leaving X by bakugo on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:41PM (#47707832)
Sorry but no. I don't care what inflated numbers Meta brags about after redirecting random people from Instagram and counting that as an "active user", Threads is so utterly irrelevant that I literally forget it exists for months at a time because nobody talks about it.

Even here on HN, searching for links to threads.com in comments from the past year yields a mere 53 results. For comparison, searching for xcancel.com, an unofficial frontend for x.com that allows logged out users to view replies, yields 795 results.

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Re:EFF is leaving X by lux-lux-lux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:43PM (#47707865)
Threads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by kmijyiyxfbklao on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:47PM (#47708800)
Twitter seems to be more popular in reddit too

https://old.reddit.com/domain/threads.com/top/

https://old.reddit.com/domain/x.com/top/

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Re:EFF is leaving X by qup on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:58PM (#47708960)
There's not much overlap with any demographics.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by matt-attack on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:02PM (#47707138)
Wow I never thought the org I’ve donated to all these years to fight for digital rights would find the need to use the phrase “queer folks”. What a toxic mess.

Please stick to your charter my friends.

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Re:EFF is leaving X by MidnightRider39 on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:06PM (#47707207)
I don’t even see them using that phrase in the linked thread? What’s wrong with it anyway?
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Re:EFF is leaving X by satvikpendem on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:11PM (#47707277)
I don't see it either, funny how people had a knee jerk reaction without even visiting the thread and validating that the phrase even exists. Maybe it's even further down but without logging in I can't see it.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by throwawaypath on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:18PM (#47707390)
That quote is in the linked EFF statement, which you clearly didn't read.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by satvikpendem on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:24PM (#47707514)
True, I was looking at the linked thread as mentioned not the article.
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Re:EFF is leaving X by pixl97 on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:07PM (#47707218)
Remind me again what the Q in LGBTQ stands for?
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Re:EFF is leaving X by mrguyorama on Thursday April 09, 2026 @07:17PM (#47711543)
How is the EFF charter incompatible with saying "Queer folks"?

What are you even saying with this criticism? Do you think queer folks were never going to come up in "Digital rights"?

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