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Guess, it's like Twitter. If you follow the right people you get good content. The only thing bothering me on LinkedIn are the recruiters and that got much bet

by k__ 5y ago

Guess, it's like Twitter. If you follow the right people you get good content. The only thing bothering me on LinkedIn are the recruiters and that got much better in the last years. Most of the time I use it to stay in touch with old co-workers and to syndicate my articles, which sometimes (2-5 times a year) leads to new clients.

umeshunni 5y ago
Even if you’re only connected with your acquaintances, the algorithm ensures that many of the posts your connections like or comment on will show up in your newsfeed. That's the bane of social media platforms where engagement is low (Twitter suffers from this too). There are very few content creators, and especial on a professional network, there isn't enough content generated to share daily, so to generate content, the platform needs to dig deeper into the bottom of the barrel and show you second-level engagement (ie friend of yours commented or liked some rando's content).
throwaway894345 5y ago
You can indeed curate, but I definitely get the vibe that cringe is the default mode on LinkedIn (which is still strictly better than Twitter’s default mode, toxicity).
- k__ 5y ago
  Maybe, social media curation is a skill that not many people posess.
  - throwaway894345 5y ago
    The default mode is unrelated to curation. Curation allows you to opt into a different mode, but it doesn’t change the default mode.
  - vlunkr 5y ago
    Maybe curating LinkedIn is a skill that not many people desire to possess. I have an account because it's expected when you're looking for a job. I'm not interested in articles about business or whatever the good content on LinkedIn is supposed to be.
- takkiinvincible 5y ago
  What would a better social media platform look like in your opinion?
  - throwaway894345 5y ago
    In two words: “thoughtful” and “good-faith”. Content should be interesting and thoughtful rather than optimizing for clicks (obviously this isn’t compatible with an ad-based model). Dialog should be civil, charitable, kind, etc and strong norms for objectivity and neutrality. Low tolerance for overt ideological advocacy, authoritarian rhetoric, flame baiting, etc. That’s “what it should look like”. To get there, I expect it’s “establish the right norms from the start and incentivize the right content and behaviors along the way”. To monetize, I don’t know and I don’t especially care.
  - Retric 5y ago
    Hacker News. But for simplicity, moderation and downvote buttons would do a world of good.
    - ta988 5y ago
      I don't think it would work on a platform on which people can organize to bully. That's an advantage of HN, it is hard to build such a community because of the lack of communication between users out of topics.
      - andrey_utkin 5y ago
        Nothing prevents hn users from getting to know each other and communicate. I attribute lack of evident destructive mobbing on hn to adequate moderation workforce.
        eru 5y ago
        > Nothing prevents [...] Oh, the power of small inconveniences.
  - 5y ago
- whateveracct 5y ago
  Curating LinkedIn is like curating the contents of my cats' litterbox.
ghaff 5y ago
I find it pretty easy to skip past the recruiters and connection requests when I pop in from time to time. I just generally ignore all the random recruiter request that are way off target. (Though, in all fairness, my LinkedIn profile is very scanty.) And I'll rarely respond--usually with a polite no--to on-target ones given that I'm not really on the market. (And have never gotten a job since grad school decades ago that wasn't a personal contact.)

by k__ 5y ago

umeshunni 5y ago

Even if you’re only connected with your acquaintances, the algorithm ensures that many of the posts your connections like or comment on will show up in your newsfeed. That's the bane of social media platforms where engagement is low (Twitter suffers from this too). There are very few content creators, and especial on a professional network, there isn't enough content generated to share daily, so to generate content, the platform needs to dig deeper into the bottom of the barrel and show you second-level engagement (ie friend of yours commented or liked some rando's content).

throwaway894345 5y ago

You can indeed curate, but I definitely get the vibe that cringe is the default mode on LinkedIn (which is still strictly better than Twitter’s default mode, toxicity).

k__ 5y ago
Maybe, social media curation is a skill that not many people posess.
- throwaway894345 5y ago
  The default mode is unrelated to curation. Curation allows you to opt into a different mode, but it doesn’t change the default mode.
- vlunkr 5y ago
  Maybe curating LinkedIn is a skill that not many people desire to possess. I have an account because it's expected when you're looking for a job. I'm not interested in articles about business or whatever the good content on LinkedIn is supposed to be.
takkiinvincible 5y ago
What would a better social media platform look like in your opinion?
- throwaway894345 5y ago
  In two words: “thoughtful” and “good-faith”. Content should be interesting and thoughtful rather than optimizing for clicks (obviously this isn’t compatible with an ad-based model). Dialog should be civil, charitable, kind, etc and strong norms for objectivity and neutrality. Low tolerance for overt ideological advocacy, authoritarian rhetoric, flame baiting, etc. That’s “what it should look like”. To get there, I expect it’s “establish the right norms from the start and incentivize the right content and behaviors along the way”. To monetize, I don’t know and I don’t especially care.
- Retric 5y ago
  Hacker News. But for simplicity, moderation and downvote buttons would do a world of good.
  - ta988 5y ago
    I don't think it would work on a platform on which people can organize to bully. That's an advantage of HN, it is hard to build such a community because of the lack of communication between users out of topics.
    - andrey_utkin 5y ago
      Nothing prevents hn users from getting to know each other and communicate. I attribute lack of evident destructive mobbing on hn to adequate moderation workforce.
      - eru 5y ago
        > Nothing prevents [...] Oh, the power of small inconveniences.
- 5y ago
whateveracct 5y ago
Curating LinkedIn is like curating the contents of my cats' litterbox.

ghaff 5y ago

I find it pretty easy to skip past the recruiters and connection requests when I pop in from time to time. I just generally ignore all the random recruiter request that are way off target. (Though, in all fairness, my LinkedIn profile is very scanty.) And I'll rarely respond--usually with a polite no--to on-target ones given that I'm not really on the market. (And have never gotten a job since grad school decades ago that wasn't a personal contact.)