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WalterBright | on: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
I bought a premium account on X and the ads went away.

I bought a premium Prime account on Amazon, and yet some of their shows still have embedded commercials. grrrr.

runjake | parent
I have Premium and I still get half the ads as free.

Plus, I get constant ads to upgrade to Premium+ for ads-free.

Premium+ is probably what you have.

tomrod | root | parent
I use bluesky and so far have no ads and lots of great journalism and academic lists to follow. Greatly enjoying it, feels like Twitter 2012 or so.
runjake | root | parent
I have Bluesky, but I don't really like it as much. The UX is much better than X, though.

On Bluesky, I pretty much follow the people I followed before they fled Twitter. However, they complain a lot about politics, Elon Musk and the US President Elect on their timelines. I could unfollow, and do in some cases, but that would pretty much leave me with nothing to read on Bluesky.

That, and the weird tech people I get the most value from still post primary on X, so I deal with it.

tomrod | root | parent
These are the current events, so it isn't unwarranted to see complaints.

They will likely complain about other things in the future :)

runjake | root | parent
That's their right, but complaining about it isn't how I like to do things. I don't want to read it, so I don't visit Bluesky much at all.

I'm more interested in ideas on how to adapt and move forward and be resilient. To be honest, I kind of like to have my beliefs challenged as well, and X provides that.