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Post by liendolucas »

volkk wrote: post #208
liendolucas wrote: post #203

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Why are you putting content on such platforms? Honestly. Do you realize that you are giving content for free to an already enshittified and closed platform? Open a blog where everyone can read freely without to have an account in one of the worst platforms out there. Or is it to be popular that you post there?

because clients are on there? a blog requires endless marketing. LinkedIn actually surfaces your posts and gets eyeballs on them

LinkedIn content is trash to be honest. If I were to put effort into a good post I would ever write it there, no matter how many eyeballs could I attract. The post could be good, but because I have been fed trash on LinkedIn for such a long time, I wouldn't spend a second trying to figure out if what someone wrote is worth reading.

At least for me HN provides me with high quality posts, hence me coming back here for new sources of information. Not saying that all posts on HN are top quality but most of the time the situation is exactly the opposite to LinkedIn. So there's a lot of value to build up your own thing and put work on it.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by stackbutterflow »

efitz wrote: post #135

I can’t stand the current trend in social media posting. It’s not writing, it’s crap. A few sentences. Alone. Incorrect grammar. Not sentences, just phrases. You’re supposed to think it has more impact. It doesn’t. If you can’t be bothered to write your own words on social media, then just don’t post.

I like the term broetry.

https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by wjnc »

sleight42 wrote: post #195
iamwil wrote: post #190

I think the cringiest are people talking about their cancer or their divorce, and how it helped them realize an insight about B2B sales.

That... happens???

I had to unfollow a coworker who was starting a female inspiring coaching career by constantly pushing messages like created by thus CringeBot while adding photos in bikinis. On LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by bradleyankrom »

senko wrote: post #218
bradleyankrom wrote: post #214

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I think you can get your posts out as part of a data export, if you request one. I just did that and I can see my (very few) posts in the Shares csv.

Nope. I tried both the data export (I'm in the EU) and looked at the API they provide. I was able to export articles (which I don't do), but not posts .

Hm, that is strange. I'm in the US, but I would expect an export for an EU user to deliver more, if they differ at all.

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Post by edoloughlin »

jorisw wrote: post #113
suncemoje wrote: post #67

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> 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

Me too. Linkedin helpfully keeps finding new people for me to follow and automatically follows them.

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Post by slfnflctd »

mountainb wrote: post #205

Using this tool seems to generate superior cringe posts to the actual cringe posts. I made one about what my female toddler’s violence taught me about B2B SaaS sales and the story it created, while implausible, was genuinely charming.

I prompted it with "How uncontrollable flatulence taught me to handle business curveballs" and I was definitely mildly amused by the results. So much detail.

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Post by melicerte »

senko wrote: post #85

I 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…

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Post by breezybottom »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #176
breezybottom wrote: post #171

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Yes it must be hard reading views that are different from your own.

You can't have a very good discussion with someone about something they've made part of their identity in my view. I'm not an instinctive AI booster but nor am I going to bother engaging with people who believe a tool I use is ontologically evil. It's a poor use of everyone's time since there's no debate to be had. This works both ways for what it's worth, I have parts of my identity which I simply don't see fit to m…

Right, because nobody here has made technology or coding part of their identity.
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