From their mastodon:

EFF exists to protect people's digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms

This is not a contest to be holier than thou. It's a numbers game.

EFF stayed on Twitter because it has a larger audience and that means a larger portion of people will see their messaging. In fact, I would argue that the people that are still on Twitter are the ones most in need of seeing those messages. The people that care about what Debian is posting are almost certainly already on Mastadon.

I don’t believe in Trumpgret.

Their hearts haven’t changed, they just don’t like being hated.

We are seeing this a lot with podcast/youtube people, like Alex Jones.

It doesn’t matter what they say now, they begged for him to be elected. They chose him and are responsible.

Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.

As for why they did decide to leave now, they explain that their posts are being viewed by significantly less people now than in the past, so there is basically nobody left to help off the sinking ship any more.

Ppl on Lemmy don't get the preaching to the choir is not how you grow

Yeah, it's not a trivial problem to solve either, especially if platforms censor mentions of decentralized alternatives.

However, it's hard for the oligarchs to censor the fact that an organization like EFF exists, and hopefully someone clicks on one of their posts and reads something on their blog about decentralized alternatives.

"Free speech absolutionist"

Trying to help people that didn't know about the alternatives.

How long do you stay on a platform before the outreach to new people is outweighed by implicit support of the platform?

It's a tough call. It is difficult to reach out to outsiders and talk to them but it's the only way to have a conversation with them.

You mean perfect is the enemy of good?

I do that too sometimes when I just woke up, and I'm on the toilet, and my brain isn't on yet.

........you are still half asleep and functionally not all there yet mentally, right?

They don't have their own instance as far as I know but they're very active on mastodon.social