Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network • Hacker News Board

I agree, it’s a complete joke of corporate gushing and posturing and humblebragging and wannabe “thought leaders”. And this is a great parody. I appreciate the work here.

And yet. There’s a kind of innocence to LinkedIn, no? It’s the feeling of a recruiting call or a job interview, where everyone involved knows it’s a completely artificial atmosphere but none of it matters very much, and we’ll soon step out of the game back to our real lives, with no meaningful consequences. I don’t remember any insurrections launched on LinkedIn, or successful disinformation campaigns by foreign states to subvert democracy, or hate speech fanning the flames of genocide. And that’s just Facebook - don’t even get me started on Twitter.

Don’t misunderstand me - I’d love to see LinkedIn fall into a deep deep sinkhole in the ground. But doesn’t the fun of this parody come from a place of safety? A good Facebook or Twitter parody would be much, much, darker.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

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Post by whatshisface » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 3:37 AM UTC

libraryofbabel wrote: post #4

LinkedIn is the very worst social network… except for all the others. I agree, it’s a complete joke of corporate gushing and posturing and humblebragging and wannabe “thought leaders”. And this is a great parody. I appreciate the work here. And yet. There’s a kind of innocence to LinkedIn, no? It’s the feeling of a recruiting call or a job interview, where everyone involved knows it’s a completely artificial atmosphe…

"LinkedIn is comparatively safe relative to other communication platforms because it is not used for real communication" is not exactly a strong defense.

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

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Post by Charlieholtz » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 3:59 AM UTC

Wow so cool to see this here! I’m the co-creator of this and happy to answer any and all questions. Shlinkedin is definitely a bizarre passion of mine so it’s awesome to see it resonate - turns out a lot of people find a lot LinkedIn ridiculous :)

This has also been a good excuse to learn Elixir/ Liveview. I’ve made all the code open source if anyone wants to take a look!

https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

Re: Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network

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Post by Datenstrom » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 4:00 AM UTC

libraryofbabel wrote: post #4

LinkedIn is the very worst social network… except for all the others. I agree, it’s a complete joke of corporate gushing and posturing and humblebragging and wannabe “thought leaders”. And this is a great parody. I appreciate the work here. And yet. There’s a kind of innocence to LinkedIn, no? It’s the feeling of a recruiting call or a job interview, where everyone involved knows it’s a completely artificial atmosphe…

> I don’t remember any insurrections launched on LinkedIn, or successful disinformation campaigns by foreign states to subvert democracy, or hate speech fanning the flames of genocide.

That is only because it hasn't been widely publicised anywhere yet[1]. Sorry for only dropping one reference but it is the only one I have ready on hand in my library and it is late. Linkedin is far from safe, it is just as bad if not worse than the others.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/datenstrom/library/-/blob/master/espionag...