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Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by cmiles8 »

LinkedIn is about:

10% useful for maintaining a contact list and just occasionally checking up on what former colleagues are up to.

5% Occasionally come across some useful or actually intriguing post that does give me some insight.

85% PR puffery or posts from grifters. If you see someone leading with “Top X LinkedIn” whatever, generally really best to run the other way quickly. Top folks never actually lead with that crap.

The truly most successful and knowledgeable folks typically only post on LinkedIn rarely or not at all. That leaves LinkedIn this odd pool of people trying to impress other people that mostly aren’t spending their time on LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by BoxOfRain »

senko wrote: post #156
thenatureboy wrote: post #137

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Indeed Twitter has seen a resurgence among the (serious) AI crowd in particular. For example Bluesky (not to mention the fediverse) can get aggressively negative towards authors posting what seem to be pro-AI posts. Ignoring the political issues, my problem with Twitter is more prosaic: the character limit is too short for basically anything of substance. I really don't like the thread style it effectively forces. (O…

That's pretty much my one gripe with the general culture of the Fediverse, a lot of people have made opposition to AI in general part of their identities and it can be a little tedious to have discussions at times because of it.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by animesh »

senko wrote: post #146
chanux wrote: post #131

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Do you also run a blog?

Yup, two. A personal one at https://blog.senko.net/ (general and more opinionated stuff) and more corpo oriented at https://senkorasic.com/articles/

I planned to get into LI posting this half of the year, and I struggled to write drafts both for LI audience and me. Your blogs and their separation is inspiring. Sincere thanks.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by [deleted] »

matherial wrote: post #80
nip wrote: post #57

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Most people randomly accept invitations on LinkedIn: "We're both humans, so I felt we should connect!". But if you actively prune / curate WHO you add to your LinkedIn, you end up with a feed that is genuinely useful. What you do need to know is WHY you want to use LinkedIn. It could be to find your next job, finding potential customers, or just keeping up to date with .

You don't need to accept at random. I'm selective - I only connect with people I worked with or know well from the industry - and it's still 99% AI slop. Part of the problem is the tech industry. There's plenty of people trying to get rich quick in tech and LinkedIn is essentially made for them. I don't see it as much in other fields where most people don't imagine themselves building unicorn AI startups with VC mone…

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Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by purerandomness »

thenatureboy wrote: post #137
senko wrote: post #115

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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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I don't know which bubble you're in, but since Elon took over, Twitter became absolutely unusable.

The decline happened with bots flooding the platform, with the "creator reward" program rewarding meaningless engagement bait, and with people who I respect in the Tech bubble leaving the platform, which led to an even faster decline.

That was just not the case before the takeover; back then, you would enjoy scrolling through it, engage in authentic conversations, and learn a thing or two.

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