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Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser »

takkiinvincible wrote: post #50
jacksonkmarley wrote: post #30

> a vast circle jerk in the cloud Well, that has the ring of truth, when applied to the newsfeed. And the final conclusion that you should just get on linkedin when job searching and then get off again is fine. I find it incredibly useful for job searching, to the point that I don't even bother with other sites. However, the job search experience is badly spoiled by secondary recruitment postings. These are especiall…

"a vast circle jerk in the cloud" is got to be one of the best descriptions of the LinkedIn feed I've heard! What do you think the ideal social media feed would look like?

For me the ideal social media feed would look a lot like Hacker News. Literally every day I find something interesting here. Something technical I didn't know, something new I never heard of, something that makes me think. Rather than social media sites that keep trying to spiral me into their bubbles of things I looked at before. When in fact I come here to see stuff that I didn't know. I don't want more of the same but yet that seems to be considered the holy grail of engagement algorithms.

It's amazing how free sharing works when it's not constantly fiddled with by algorithms. There is user voting of course but I read the 'new' page a lot too.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser »

indiantinker wrote: post #4

Nice article. Those "I passed some 2 min XYZ certificate" posts really get to my nerve. I usually use the news feed eradicator [0] on such websites. It is like jumping across the valley of the newsfeed attention river. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

I know what you mean but at least those certs are work related and fairly factual. I rather see that than people bragging about how amazing they are in contrived scenarios.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by _abox »

swyx wrote: post #138

"You’ve read all your free member-only stories. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from." Shameless Medium loginwalling is the Bane of Hacker News.

I don't have the link now but search for bypass-paywalls-chrome from iamadamdev IIRC. Works on Firefox too. It's amazing for this :)

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser »

quantumofalpha wrote: post #175
fouc wrote: post #29

Medium seems more aggressive with their paywall lately, but clearing the cookies works fine. It occurs to me that a useful browser feature would have automatic "never save cookies ever" and then have a whitelist to add sites that I want to retain cookies on. The majority of random sites I visit have no need for cookies ultimately..

> It occurs to me that a useful browser feature would have automatic "never save cookies ever" and then have a whitelist to add sites that I want to retain cookies on. That's fairly easy to accomplish. I keep my ~/.mozilla in git and essentially git reset it on startup. Everything I didn't explicitly commit into it - gone!

That's a really good idea. Thanks for sharing, I'll try that.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser »

timdaub wrote: post #53

I'm starting to flag medium content now as I cannot read things anymore. They're paywalling me and I can't be asked to login or pay or whatever they want from me.

There was a time when bugmenot (credential sharing site) still worked and was amazing. But now such accounts get blocked instantly :'(

But at least due to companies wanting free exposure on Google, paywall bypass tools are now a thing.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by JPKab »

If Google's executives didn't perennially have their heads up their asses they would have turned Google+ into a LinkedIn competitor, integrated with their search platform.

They did have their heads up their asses, they didn't do anything because the company never innovates on new ways to make money that are actually simple and achievable. It's more interesting to go for things like self-driving cars and then fail at them.

And now we are stuck with this awful awful platform that is LinkedIn.

The influencers make me want to gouge my eyes out. It's just plain nauseating to read this empty drivel, and you can't escape it.

The worst is the obvious performative social justice messaging. Seeing my former CEO, who makes 111 times what his average coder makes, prattling on about equity is just plain awful.

Ditto for the regurgitated dozens of times stories of inspiration that are almost certainly fabricated or exaggerated. You see the same story over and over but it mutates and changes over time with little pictures added here and there......

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by JPKab »

lordnacho wrote: post #38

It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…

You forgot the nauseatingly formulaic "I wouldn't be where I am today without the :insert unsung low status figure here:" posts from high status people who you know couldn't give two s** about said low status people.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by swyx »

_abox wrote: post #203
swyx wrote: post #138

"You’ve read all your free member-only stories. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from." Shameless Medium loginwalling is the Bane of Hacker News.

I don't have the link now but search for bypass-paywalls-chrome from iamadamdev IIRC. Works on Firefox too. It's amazing for this :)

yeah i know ive been avoiding it on principle... like, if i see the post is on medium, well then, you've saved me reading any further because you're the type of person that cares so little about reader experience that you write on medium. just trying to do my part for a slightly more open web.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by tlavoie »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #183
lordnacho wrote: post #38

It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…

OOM = ?

Order of magnitude, based on the context.

Not like Out of Memory, like in a Linux process.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by sprkwd »

truth_ wrote: post #19
Inhibit wrote: post #3

Linkedin is a marketing platform where you are the product. Use it as a tool if you need to but try not to forget that. If you feel something's horrible there it's likely by design and within that context. (edit: you're to you are)

> where you are the product Isn't this true for all major social media platforms?

Not mastodon.
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