On a different note from my other comment, I totally agree that you can sign onto parts of the lowercase effective altruism project without signing onto others, which is why I am still here, but I think card-carrying EAs sometimes underestimate the downsides of attaching your ideas and recommendations to such a diverse movement with very different ideas internally on where to prioritize money.

Unlike veganism, where vegans are all basically advocating for the same thing even if they disagree on some smaller things and some of them think others are annoying in their tactics etc, different branches of EA argue for very different things that are not clearly related to either outside observers or me, and I have been here for years.

If I recommend donating to GiveDirectly, I can be sure that I am recommending that my friend is donating to something I think is both effective and altruistic. But if I recommend EA explicitly I have to then answer why I think that spending tons of money on [insert longtermist project here] is more effective or cost-effective than volunteering at the local community organization, and often I don't actually think it is!