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It’s safe to assume without extraordinary evidence that anything posted on LinkedIn is at best glorified reality, but most likely complete fabrication. There’s
by Zanfa 1y ago
It’s safe to assume without extraordinary evidence that anything posted on LinkedIn is at best glorified reality, but most likely complete fabrication. There’s zero incentive for anybody to be truthful.
- agcat 1y agoHave you found any social medium on internet that actually empowers honesty?
- Zanfa 1y agoI’d say closest would maybe be early internet style niche forums or other closed (torrenting?) communities where your reputation is somewhat correlated with your contributions.
- agcat 1y agoYes! I follow bearblog discover feed. That's also quite good
- coldtea 1y agothe ones that are not focused on professional, commercial or business opportunities, like LinkedIn is, at least remove one of the motivations to lie. Those that offer full anonymity, remove another.
- Antibabelic 1y agoAh, 4chan, the final bastion of truth
- Brian_K_White 1y agoIt kind of is isn't it? Just not in the sense of jounalistic integrity. But certainly 4chan exposes a truth hidden elsewhere.
- Antibabelic 1y agoCould you elaborate on what you mean? I'm not quite sure what kind of hidden truth you're referring to.
- coldtea 1y agoAh, the quick off-topic dismissal, that bastion of steelmanning. We weren't discussing truth, but honesty. Someone deluded can still be honest given what they (falsely) believe. Besides, I wrote about how there are multiple incentives to lie, and a platform were you're not having a financial interest in what you write, removes some big ones. Doesn't mean something like 4chan doesn't have others. Still, I'd expect to find a homest to god personal confession in 4chan or Reddit way more than on LinkedIn.
- agcat 1y agoI never heard about 4chan before
- Antibabelic 1y agoI wasn't talking about "truth" in the abstract either. There aren't any more "deluded" people on 4chan than anywhere else. And yet it's full of people posting lies, hoaxes and made up stories. Why is that?
- hk__2 1y agoReddit? HN?
- agcat 1y agoBearblog discovery feed as well
- markovs_gun 1y ago99% of my LinkedIn feed these days is AI slop from people and companies I have never heard of. IDK why anyone looks at the anything other than job listings on LinkedIn. Everything else is garbage.
- agcat 1y agoDo we have an alternative?
- markovs_gun 1y agoJust not using it. I don't miss LinkedIn as a social media site at all, and only see the feed on my way to the job listings