I enjoyed the “Hot Take,” in the Hall of Cringe (my boat).
It’s surprisingly well done, for AI-generated content.
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#112A genuine question for the people here, I am just a college student so maybe I am missing something, but does anybody actually browse through linkedin? The only times I actually open it up is when either I did something that I would like to remember when I update my Resume at a later date, or when my friends text me to open it up and like their post :)
When I see people post on LinkedIn, I stop taking them seriously. Because they’re spending time and energy well spent elsewhere, posting into a meaningless haze of obligatory connections.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I agree that most of the feed is filled with useless posts, for some business sectors it actually contains useful posts. I work in the European energy market sector and LinkedIn is one of the to go places to catch up with developments in the markets, the latest the analyses, and upcoming events. And some posts are actually good, you just need to filter out the rest. I wish there would be a better platform for t…
> most of the feed is filled with useless posts I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.
I just unfollow everyone on LinkedIn
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#114I wish I could reply to the "I pooped" linkedin output. "Tongue firmly in cheek" is horrifying.
I first tried "Getting your ass rimmed" without knowing that was appended to all the generated texts. Got an extra chuckle before I figured that out.
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#115I frequently post on LinkedIn, on topics related to AI, startups, open source, etc. I try to have a pragmatic and realistic take and don't use AI to write the posts. I find that just by not being cringe, obviously AI or obviously over the top sales-y makes the posts stand out and raise my (consulting) profile enough to land a meaningful number of clients, just as a second-order effect. Lately I've been even more anno…
Why are you engaging sincerely on a platform created for boot licking?
Audience.
With the Elonification of Twitter there has been a splittering of tech/biz audiences across different platforms, each with their own problems, and the split is different in different parts of the world.
It so happens that LI continues to be popular with the audience segment and geographic location I'm primarily working with.
Agree with all negative comments about the platform tho.
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#116I frequently post on LinkedIn, on topics related to AI, startups, open source, etc. I try to have a pragmatic and realistic take and don't use AI to write the posts. I find that just by not being cringe, obviously AI or obviously over the top sales-y makes the posts stand out and raise my (consulting) profile enough to land a meaningful number of clients, just as a second-order effect. Lately I've been even more anno…
I want to do this but I can't get myself to do it, I guess I'm too self-aware. Does this come naturally for you to do or did you have to push your self hard? How did you start?
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#119A genuine question for the people here, I am just a college student so maybe I am missing something, but does anybody actually browse through linkedin? The only times I actually open it up is when either I did something that I would like to remember when I update my Resume at a later date, or when my friends text me to open it up and like their post :)
When I see people post on LinkedIn, I stop taking them seriously. Because they’re spending time and energy well spent elsewhere, posting into a meaningless haze of obligatory connections.
For some of us (founders, sales, GTM engineers), LinkedIn is "the place to be" if you want to find and engage with prospects.
My customers are in healthcare, and they don't hang out on X for example (which is where I get most of my tech news alongside HN).
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#120Very curious to hear if someone actually posted one of these and got likes/new followers?
I may or may not have instructed Claude to built me a LinkedIn Bot that creates posts for predefined topics, comments and likes others posts and scarpes the page for jobs. Let's say a minority on LinkedIn actually reads the content others post, so my reach and impressions are continually growing without me doing anything on that cesspool of a social app. Thanks AI, I guess.
So basically LinkedIn is now MoltBook [0].