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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Post by theamk »

theturtletalks wrote: post #49
Aurornis wrote: post #15

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> The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform. I feel like a broken record explaining this to people. The feed that appears when you go to LinkedIn.com is a sideshow. Almost nobody posts to it. Very few people read it. You can (and should!) ignore it and not miss out on anything. Make a profile. Update it occasionally when you're job sear…

We need a better model. Platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram shouldn't own your content. They should just connect to your own personal website. I am building an open-source system where everyone hosts their own site and publishes everything there from short notes, long articles, photos, whatever you want. You can auto-cross-post to those big platforms to keep your reach (Buffer for personal sites), but your site sta…

Does anyone actually care about linkedin "content"? It seems full of useless articles that only benefit marketers. If all the articles would disappear one day, I doubt many readers would be sad.

(The two-way contact list, on the other hand, is significantly more useful. But you cannot syndicate it, it's tied to the platform)

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Post by Aurornis »

swyx wrote: post #30
Aurornis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform. I feel like a broken record explaining this to people. The feed that appears when you go to LinkedIn.com is a sideshow. Almost nobody posts to it. Very few people read it. You can (and should!) ignore it and not miss out on anything. Make a profile. Update it occasionally when you're job sear…

this is spoken from a permaemployee perspective. linkedin very much changes when you 1) become a hiring manager, 2) become a founder

> this is spoken from a permaemployee perspective.

I've spent more time as a hiring manager than IC in recent years. "permaemployee" feels unnecessarily demeaning.

You're right that it's used differently for finding candidates, but I still don't engage with the feed.

At most I've posted that I have a job opening as a post (not a job listing). The problem is that it's heavily biased toward people who spend a lot of time on LinkedIn scrolling the feed, which in my experience isn't the most positive signal for people you want to hire to focus on your work. Similar story for hiring people who spend all day posting on any social media: They tend to be distracted by their social media fixation and it's hard to keep them focused on work communications instead of their current online argument.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

#55

Post by slyall »

ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #50
slyall wrote: post #46

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Have you checked to make sure your domain wasn't previously owned by somebody else? There are sites where you can lookup previous ownership such as https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/

What are you suggesting? That someone owned the domain, lost it, and after losing it tries to create a linkedin account with it?

Maybe they already had an account with that domain years ago and are trying to log back it.

Or perhaps it is just some random spammer creating linkedin accounts with random email addresses

Or perhaps the email doesn't actually come from linkedin and it is a phishing you to click though

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Post by ekjhgkejhgk »

slyall wrote: post #55
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you suggesting? That someone owned the domain, lost it, and after losing it tries to create a linkedin account with it?

Maybe they already had an account with that domain years ago and are trying to log back it. Or perhaps it is just some random spammer creating linkedin accounts with random email addresses Or perhaps the email doesn't actually come from linkedin and it is a phishing you to click though

> Maybe they already had an account with that domain years ago and are trying to log back it.

This wasn't "log back in", this is a new account created.

> Or perhaps it is just some random spammer creating linkedin accounts with random email addresses

This is what I imagined, but I don't understand why someone would do this.

> Or perhaps the email doesn't actually come from linkedin and it is a phishing you to click though

No, these emails come from linkedin.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

#57

Post by swyx »

nirushiv wrote: post #45
swyx wrote: post #30

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this is spoken from a permaemployee perspective. linkedin very much changes when you 1) become a hiring manager, 2) become a founder

Can you elaborate please? Very curious to hear non-employee perspective

basically instead of treating linkedin like a chore to minmax, you are genuinely trying to reach out to 1) people you are trying to hire, 2) buyers/decisionmakers who have the pain points you solve. linkedin is very good for that.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

#59

Post by [deleted] »

happyopossum wrote: post #27
estimator7292 wrote: post #13

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It's slop all the way down. If it's not AI slop it's human slop. If you have a LinkedIn account you must fill it with a constant stream of something . Way too many meaningless middle managers won't hire you if your LinkedIn profile doesn't have enough shit in it. You shouldn't work for those asswipes but a job is a job, so the slop must flow

> slop. If you have a LinkedIn account you must fill it with a constant stream of something This is 100% baloney. Almost none of the people I work with are heavy LinkedIn posters, and I’ve never met a hiring manager who cared what your LinkedIn feed looked like. This has held true across startups, FAANGs, and mid cap tech companies.

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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Post by hamirhere »

theturtletalks wrote: post #49
Aurornis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform. I feel like a broken record explaining this to people. The feed that appears when you go to LinkedIn.com is a sideshow. Almost nobody posts to it. Very few people read it. You can (and should!) ignore it and not miss out on anything. Make a profile. Update it occasionally when you're job sear…

We need a better model. Platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram shouldn't own your content. They should just connect to your own personal website. I am building an open-source system where everyone hosts their own site and publishes everything there from short notes, long articles, photos, whatever you want. You can auto-cross-post to those big platforms to keep your reach (Buffer for personal sites), but your site sta…

> We need a better model. Platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram shouldn't own your content.

This reminds me of a post I read the other day, https://overreacted.io/open-social/.

It's by Dan Abramov, the former React.js core contributor.

I created a BlueSky account because of it.

https://bsky.app/profile/hamirhere.bsky.social

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