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The Tor Project

🚨 Our X (Twitter) account has been compromised. We are working to regain access.
Please do not trust or interact with any posts, DMs, or links from our account until further notice.
Stay updated here, on our other socials (🦋) and our blog: blog.torproject.org/

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@torproject take this as a message from the universe to delete twitter and do better.

@torproject once you regain access to it delete it immediately :neocat_floof:

@soop yes, this may have been the sign we've been looking for. :)

@torproject @soop Don't just deactivate it fully delete it. This is your sign 🥰

@torproject @soop don't delete it. Its important to also reach normal average users in cenxored countries which offen communicate via the Main social media platforms. Thats why your telegram channel and bot are so successful. It helps those being cencored.

@Life_is_Beautiful

Bluesky has >25M users (up from ~3M at the beginning of 2024) and seems like a good alternative to reach "normal average users" alongside Mastodon; it looks and behaves almost exactly like Twitter and is a nice drop-in option for folks who just want convenience.

@eloquence yea, its cool that more platforms get created to weaken Twitter.
Still 99% of citizens have never heard of Mastodon and 95% of the whole population have never heard of bluesky yet even have an account.
80% have heard of Twitter.

@Life_is_Beautiful @eloquence

I wonder how many more have now heard of Tor ... :)

@Life_is_Beautiful

99% of statistics are made-up on the spot. :) I think a clear posting on the X account about where comms can be found going forward would be more than sufficient.

@eloquence @Life_is_Beautiful Twitter does not exist, X is not even public - you need an account to read anything properly.

@eloquence @Life_is_Beautiful

Bluesky has exceded 30M users by now and seems to have become a no brainer alternative to X. Big caveat: No guarantees that it won't get hijacked / rug-pulled by some billionaire once it gets big enough, but for now it's not evil.

I wish Mastodon would fulfill the role that Bluesky does now, but that's an uphill battle for now. Realistically we need both.

@Life_is_Beautiful @torproject @soop I agree. Here on #Mastodon, we live in an anti-Musk bubble and it feels like everybody is quitting #X and hating #Tesla while outside the fediverse, this is just not the case.

@timbrueckner @Life_is_Beautiful @torproject Are you perhaps trying to say tolerating nazis is supposed to be normal? heck no

@Life_is_Beautiful @torproject @soop

I agree. It’s better to just keep it and reach more people. The reach is more important in my opinion.

@lunar @torproject @soop

You have the choice to use Mastodon and not X. Give every user the choice.

I checked the the official Torproject X out and literally the first link in their bio is the link to their blueksy profile and then to their mastodon profile.
This will lead more X people to these better platforms. If you just delete the account nobody will ever find that lead.
Nobody benefits. Its a lose lose situation.
I am not a fan of X. I don't use it. Just don't use it and then it's not your problem.

@Life_is_Beautiful @torproject @soop

I 100% agree.

At @unredacted we’ve had many people from countries with a high level of censorship reach out to us through X. It’s important to be available on popular platforms.

Mastodon is great, but there’s a lot of people that don’t use it. Be where your users are, and lead them to better platforms if possible. That’s my opinion.

@torproject @soop Be the hero we deserve. Delete that shit.

@torproject @soop it's about time. fascist musk is not there since yesterday

@torproject the last post was funny anyway 😅 $TOR 😅

@nickbearded should go without saying, but obviously, we did not launch a Tor coin.

@torproject @nickbearded If you did, I’d invest. Though I’m not sure how a coin or blockchain could benefit the Tor network.

@torproject

So, ..... is there any loss if you're not there?
You're here to tell us you're not there .......
Please don't support Musk by going back.

@torproject

I hear February 1 is switch day. It might be best to just shut that damn thing down lock it, hopefully permanently.

And then in order to prevent the account from being banned, just leave a link to your website saying you know if you want to follow us jump over here and take a look

@torproject I'm *not* saying that the compromised account was an inside job at Twitter because it's run by a Nazi and you make a tool for resisting authoritarians... But I *am* saying that if it turned out to be the case, I would not be surprised in the least.

@torproject
speculative:

is it x.com itself doing something nefarious.

elon musk is bad, but is it this bad.

@torproject why are you on X which itself is compromised?

@torproject After recovering control it's a good time to leave Twitter/ X.

@torproject just leave the damn thing behind. It’s dead Jim.

@torproject how is this even possible if 2FA via TOTP is enabled?
Sim swap?

@torproject Why are you still on Twitter? By being there, you're contributing to, and driving traffic to twitter, which is at this point: Putting money into the pocket of a Nazi.

You're The Tor Project. Your user base is filled with types who understand technology well enough to understand why/when/how to use your services. These are the kinds of people who can and will follow you to social medias like this one, and/or Bluesky, and/or Pixelfed, or any of the other choices that don't support a Nazi that's all in on Fascism.

And none of that ^ is rhetorical; I really do not understand, and am trying to, why organizations and individuals that strike me as in opposition to Musk and his behavior, are still using his products which thereby fiscally endorse him (maybe not with your money, but he's definitely getting paid by the traffic you're creating on his site).

I don't get it. I want to.

@torproject Excellent time to leave X behind

@torproject Xitter was compromised a while back.

@torproject "We are working to regain access."

Why?

@torproject

regain, delete, move on. i'm surprised you haven't already.

@torproject That was fast, thx for getting out.

@torproject From your intro :

We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks.

ON X ??????
How to lose credibility in no time.