Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by runjake on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:52PM (#42659425)

Agreed. The X ads were terrible and annoying until I flipped on that "Let X ad track you" and at least I get tolerable ads on mobile. (uBlock Origin blocks them on desktop)

The For You feed varies week by week but is generally okay. I make heavy use of lists, mute words, etc to clean things up.

X is a train wreck, but an interesting and useful one, depending on who/what you follow.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by WalterBright on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:50PM (#42660040)

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.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by runjake on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:02PM (#42660189)

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.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by tomrod on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:04PM (#42660799)

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.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by runjake on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:39PM (#42668752)

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.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by tomrod on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:34PM (#42669087)

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

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

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by runjake on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:53PM (#42675807)

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.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by grues-dinner on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:21PM (#42659687)

Use Firefox and you can block them on mobile as well.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by runjake on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:26PM (#42687624)

Safari, with an ad blocker, does block them on mobile, as well. I should have noted I was talking about the X mobile app.

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