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LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

ozim 8mo ago
There are people who write genuinely interesting stuff there as well. I use block option there quite a lot. That cleans up my experience rather well.
- wiseowise 8mo ago
  Can to share some of them? Genuinely curious.
  - hliyan 8mo ago
    I don't know if I'm helping make things better or adding to the problem, but here's the sort of thing I share with my audience: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-decades-ago-hasitha-liyanage-mxdkc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-de...
  - ozim 8mo ago
    I guess people one would follow on other platforms, plus bunch others posting in my native language. Daniel Stenberg Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson Nick Chapsas Laurie Kirk Brian Krebs
    - JasonADrury 7mo ago
      > Brian Krebs Even Krebs has switched to posting uncritical AI slop now. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-service-proxies-real-login-pages-mfa/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-serv... A rewrite of slop post at https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit In the meanwhile, the exploit.in thread where this phishing kit is advertised is just full of users making fun of the author for selling vibecoded garbage. One user seems to have paid for the phishing kit, and says it just doesn't work at all and says the author blocked him on telegram after he complained. It's a marketing piece hyping up a phishing kit that doesn't exist. Krebs gave up a long time ago, if he gave a shit he'd be more than capable of going on these forums to try and verify this story before uncritically repeating AI company marketing materials.
wiseowise 8mo ago
LinkedIn is a fucking asylum populate by the most unhinged “people” and bots. I don’t know a single serious technical person active on LinkedIn.
- dherikb 8mo ago
  I like Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmihalcea https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmihalcea
- DaiPlusPlus 8mo ago
  I short the stock of companies whose leadership is wasting time posting to LinkedIn instead of… y’know… leading their org. The more they post the more I short. Similarly, the less-attached-to-reality the post is the more I short. I wish I could say I’m making bank off this strategy - but pretty-much all the slopposters (and the most insufferable of the AI boosters) are all working for nonpublic firms, oh well.
  - snowwrestler 8mo ago
    Maybe not a winning strategy because a lot of public companies have a comms team that manages the CEO’s LinkedIn. Thereby saving the valuable time of the CEO themselves.
    - DaiPlusPlus 8mo ago
      > a comms team Right; and those PR/comms/social-media-managers know better than to post LLM slop to LinkedIn.
- riskable 8mo ago
  There's a whole community devoted to pointing out LinkedIn Lunatics! https://sh.itjust.works/c/linkedinlunatics https://sh.itjust.works/c/linkedinlunatics
close04 8mo ago
> LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves That's the main trait of almost all social media. A parade of falsity, putting on the show for everyone else, being what you wish you were and what everyone else dreams of being or envies. LinkedIn is about boasting and boosting the professional life, other social media is for the personal life. More or less equally fake.

ozim 8mo ago

There are people who write genuinely interesting stuff there as well. I use block option there quite a lot. That cleans up my experience rather well.

wiseowise 8mo ago
Can to share some of them? Genuinely curious.
- hliyan 8mo ago
  I don't know if I'm helping make things better or adding to the problem, but here's the sort of thing I share with my audience: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-decades-ago-hasitha-liyanage-mxdkc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-de...
- ozim 8mo ago
  I guess people one would follow on other platforms, plus bunch others posting in my native language. Daniel Stenberg Jason Fried David Heinemeier Hansson Nick Chapsas Laurie Kirk Brian Krebs
  - JasonADrury 7mo ago
    > Brian Krebs Even Krebs has switched to posting uncritical AI slop now. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-service-proxies-real-login-pages-mfa/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-serv... A rewrite of slop post at https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit In the meanwhile, the exploit.in thread where this phishing kit is advertised is just full of users making fun of the author for selling vibecoded garbage. One user seems to have paid for the phishing kit, and says it just doesn't work at all and says the author blocked him on telegram after he complained. It's a marketing piece hyping up a phishing kit that doesn't exist. Krebs gave up a long time ago, if he gave a shit he'd be more than capable of going on these forums to try and verify this story before uncritically repeating AI company marketing materials.

wiseowise 8mo ago

LinkedIn is a fucking asylum populate by the most unhinged “people” and bots. I don’t know a single serious technical person active on LinkedIn.

dherikb 8mo ago
I like Vlad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmihalcea https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladmihalcea
DaiPlusPlus 8mo ago
I short the stock of companies whose leadership is wasting time posting to LinkedIn instead of… y’know… leading their org. The more they post the more I short. Similarly, the less-attached-to-reality the post is the more I short. I wish I could say I’m making bank off this strategy - but pretty-much all the slopposters (and the most insufferable of the AI boosters) are all working for nonpublic firms, oh well.
- snowwrestler 8mo ago
  Maybe not a winning strategy because a lot of public companies have a comms team that manages the CEO’s LinkedIn. Thereby saving the valuable time of the CEO themselves.
  - DaiPlusPlus 8mo ago
    > a comms team Right; and those PR/comms/social-media-managers know better than to post LLM slop to LinkedIn.
riskable 8mo ago
There's a whole community devoted to pointing out LinkedIn Lunatics! https://sh.itjust.works/c/linkedinlunatics https://sh.itjust.works/c/linkedinlunatics

close04 8mo ago

> LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves That's the main trait of almost all social media. A parade of falsity, putting on the show for everyone else, being what you wish you were and what everyone else dreams of being or envies. LinkedIn is about boasting and boosting the professional life, other social media is for the personal life. More or less equally fake.