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LinkedIn Is a Fucked Up Circus – Flee

38 points by pyman 1y ago

ksec 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of people's job and credit / achievement relies on LinkedIn post. If it is not on LinkedIn you haven't done anything. And seems especially true in UK.
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codingdave 1y ago
> There’s a special circle of hell, and it’s your LinkedIn feed at 8:07 AM on a Monday. So don't read it. LinkedIn is a digital rolodex, that you use to store resumes and apply to jobs. If you are checking it daily and reading all the posts, that is self-inflicted pain.
- bitbasher 1y ago
  Someone like me, a developer of a product that I run myself-- you can't help but use LinkedIn on Monday at 8AM because sales are waiting for you :)
  - xplt 1y ago
    /irony ? Honestly curious -- does your mileage vary that much on LinkedIn? It appears as though the feed is mostly a rolling dumpster fire + couple invites every week.
- gs17 1y ago
  I also make an exception for the games on it. I made the mistake of reading the comments on a puzzle today that had an error and even that was painful.
  - Slow_Hand 1y ago
    Out of curiosity, why would you favor playing games on LinkedIn of all places?
    - gs17 1y ago
      They have a handful of kind of fun puzzle games that are all daily puzzles, so it's a quick time waster that you can't get too lost in.
webdevver 1y ago
Prediction: When Gen A/B come of age, LinkedIn will make a massive comeback with 'hey look at me being a corporate exec!' style of posts. you will see 'corporate-maxxing' become a thing, as the next-next generation rebel against their doom-and-gloom gen-z seniors.
atemerev 1y ago
What are you, reading all this? LinkedIn is a tool for introductions and cold emails, and it works great as such. Everything else is purely decorative.
- footlose_3815 1y ago
  And for bad actors to datamine unfettered. If we had stronger privacy laws, they'd rightfully castrate Linkedin's clearinghouse of our personal data to scammers.
  - atemerev 1y ago
    Hey, what is visible to humans, visible for everyone. Every information you made public is public. Where's privacy in this?
    - footlose_3815 1y ago
      Let's not draw attention to Microsoft packaging it up in a pretty subscription for dataminers to download. People will put stuff on professional networks forever, but only once you subscribe can you get that stuff real fast over API, can you really start leveraging these people's data at-scale. All they need is a linkedin account, rocketreach account, and they have literally everything they need to spearphish your entire executive team at their personal cell phones.
      - atemerev 1y ago
        Can I have the subscription? LinkedIn is famously restrictive in their APIs. I can't even download all emails of my own contacts.
linkage 1y ago
Oh look, it's another "I'm allergic to using the 'mute/unfollow' button" screed. As with X or any other social media site, LinkedIn is what you make of it. You can either curate your feed to filter out noise or you can whine about the masses doing whatever it takes to find a better job while pretending that you're above self-promotion.
- larrled 1y ago
  No, LinkedIn is specifically and uniquely terrible. Some people enjoy x, nobody enjoys LinkedIn.
- bitbasher 1y ago
  That's untrue. I unfollow everyone (I follow 0 people) and I still get crazy news feed posts to look at. I wrote a custom ublock origin style to make the feed invisible.
  - PicassoCTs 1y ago
    Care to share?
    - bitbasher 1y ago
      I've been using these since 2024. Use at your own risk. https://pastebin.com/vGS1jJHx https://pastebin.com/vGS1jJHx
- gausswho 1y ago
  Oh look, sureveillance capitalist says you're holding it wrong.
- nwhnwh 1y ago
  The health effects here may be fun to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary)
- billfor 1y ago
  The people complaining are the ones that used it in the early 2000s when it was useful (ie not social network and marketing crap) and you didn’t need to spend 80% of your time cleaning it up just so it’s useful again. It’s truly like a game of whack-a-mole now.
metalman 1y ago
the only real life spontainious mention of linkdin was the woman trying to sell me a printer a staples who extolled lnkedin and the 750 friends?, contacts she had there...but could not actualy help me understand the purpose beyond a lot of superlatives,that and there is a thriving business in doing portrait photography for peoples profiles that I learned of from someone inquireing about having a mobile photography studio built. but ya, strong cultic whiff comming off of it
ghaering 1y ago
Truer words have never been spoken.
SpikeDad 1y ago
It's a prime vector for scam attacks on desperate people looking for jobs. So many posts on Reddit /r/scams of people getting their contact info scraped or scam companies just loitering on LinkedIn.

38 points by pyman 1y ago

ksec 1y ago

Unfortunately a lot of people's job and credit / achievement relies on LinkedIn post. If it is not on LinkedIn you haven't done anything. And seems especially true in UK.

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codingdave 1y ago

> There’s a special circle of hell, and it’s your LinkedIn feed at 8:07 AM on a Monday. So don't read it. LinkedIn is a digital rolodex, that you use to store resumes and apply to jobs. If you are checking it daily and reading all the posts, that is self-inflicted pain.

bitbasher 1y ago
Someone like me, a developer of a product that I run myself-- you can't help but use LinkedIn on Monday at 8AM because sales are waiting for you :)
- xplt 1y ago
  /irony ? Honestly curious -- does your mileage vary that much on LinkedIn? It appears as though the feed is mostly a rolling dumpster fire + couple invites every week.
gs17 1y ago
I also make an exception for the games on it. I made the mistake of reading the comments on a puzzle today that had an error and even that was painful.
- Slow_Hand 1y ago
  Out of curiosity, why would you favor playing games on LinkedIn of all places?
  - gs17 1y ago
    They have a handful of kind of fun puzzle games that are all daily puzzles, so it's a quick time waster that you can't get too lost in.

webdevver 1y ago

Prediction: When Gen A/B come of age, LinkedIn will make a massive comeback with 'hey look at me being a corporate exec!' style of posts. you will see 'corporate-maxxing' become a thing, as the next-next generation rebel against their doom-and-gloom gen-z seniors.

atemerev 1y ago

What are you, reading all this? LinkedIn is a tool for introductions and cold emails, and it works great as such. Everything else is purely decorative.

footlose_3815 1y ago
And for bad actors to datamine unfettered. If we had stronger privacy laws, they'd rightfully castrate Linkedin's clearinghouse of our personal data to scammers.
- atemerev 1y ago
  Hey, what is visible to humans, visible for everyone. Every information you made public is public. Where's privacy in this?
  - footlose_3815 1y ago
    Let's not draw attention to Microsoft packaging it up in a pretty subscription for dataminers to download. People will put stuff on professional networks forever, but only once you subscribe can you get that stuff real fast over API, can you really start leveraging these people's data at-scale. All they need is a linkedin account, rocketreach account, and they have literally everything they need to spearphish your entire executive team at their personal cell phones.
    - atemerev 1y ago
      Can I have the subscription? LinkedIn is famously restrictive in their APIs. I can't even download all emails of my own contacts.

linkage 1y ago

Oh look, it's another "I'm allergic to using the 'mute/unfollow' button" screed. As with X or any other social media site, LinkedIn is what you make of it. You can either curate your feed to filter out noise or you can whine about the masses doing whatever it takes to find a better job while pretending that you're above self-promotion.

larrled 1y ago
No, LinkedIn is specifically and uniquely terrible. Some people enjoy x, nobody enjoys LinkedIn.
bitbasher 1y ago
That's untrue. I unfollow everyone (I follow 0 people) and I still get crazy news feed posts to look at. I wrote a custom ublock origin style to make the feed invisible.
- PicassoCTs 1y ago
  Care to share?
  - bitbasher 1y ago
    I've been using these since 2024. Use at your own risk. https://pastebin.com/vGS1jJHx https://pastebin.com/vGS1jJHx
gausswho 1y ago
Oh look, sureveillance capitalist says you're holding it wrong.
nwhnwh 1y ago
The health effects here may be fun to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary)
billfor 1y ago
The people complaining are the ones that used it in the early 2000s when it was useful (ie not social network and marketing crap) and you didn’t need to spend 80% of your time cleaning it up just so it’s useful again. It’s truly like a game of whack-a-mole now.

metalman 1y ago

the only real life spontainious mention of linkdin was the woman trying to sell me a printer a staples who extolled lnkedin and the 750 friends?, contacts she had there...but could not actualy help me understand the purpose beyond a lot of superlatives,that and there is a thriving business in doing portrait photography for peoples profiles that I learned of from someone inquireing about having a mobile photography studio built. but ya, strong cultic whiff comming off of it

ghaering 1y ago

Truer words have never been spoken.

SpikeDad 1y ago

It's a prime vector for scam attacks on desperate people looking for jobs. So many posts on Reddit /r/scams of people getting their contact info scraped or scam companies just loitering on LinkedIn.