LinkedIn has spent the last few years becoming the same kind of engagement hype-trap as anywhere else and as a result it's just an awful place. Back when it fi

LinkedIn has spent the last few years becoming the same kind of engagement hype-trap as anywhere else and as a result it's just an awful place. Back when it first launched it was nice to have just as a way to maintain contacts and occasionally message someone or keep in touch. But clearly nobody was going to make money that way, so they're pouring on the same crap as propagated by Facebook and friends. It's a depressing place to go, full of fake positivity and MBA-speak. And yet I'm compelled to go there to keep on top of what my peers are doing. And for people who are unemployed or out of the job market for any amount of time, it can be positively (see what I did there?) soul crushing. They tune in there and look and see all these people they used to know or work with showing off their fancy job titles and daily affirmations, while they struggle to get their resume in front of the faces of people. And what they originally came there for was to get in touch with connections or look for jobs, they go away discouraged. I'd like something to take hold closer to what the original LinkedIn seemed to be poking at. Contact lists, basic messaging, and job postings. And just charge a very basic annual fee or something instead of dumping ads and engagement algorithms on me? (Oh, and go off the beaten track and click down the wrong path and you'll quickly find the same pile of QAnon-ish garbage as every other barely-moderated engagement hacking social media site ...)