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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by bitcharmer »

lvncelot wrote: post #83
rnts08 wrote: post #75

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

I won't disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn't the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who "network" for networking's sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you're bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that's entirely networking-focused.

But LinkedIn wasn't like that 10 years ago. It was what it was meant to be. To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.

At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won't happen.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#102

Post by xeyownt »

mondrian wrote: post #86
mandmandam wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God it really is heinous. However, I don't think it's a consequence of the platform, but of work culture. People are like that because it works , and it works because we're deep, deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. The people profiting from destroying every public good - peace, pollution-free air and water and soil, housing, healthcare, etc etc - own basically everything. Our politici…

Relatively speaking, Instagram and Twitter are far more interesting than LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a special kind of horrible.

Twitter is the most terrible platform ever. And it got only worse after Mr. X bought it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#104

Post by romwell »

bbor wrote: post #59
kybernetyk wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It’s not porn, it’s mixed use technology. Edge/edging ... of course it's a porn flag.

WOW that's the reason? I didn't catch that, that's both hilarious and disheartening. Dijkstra is rolling in his grave... I suppose we'll have to move from "nodes and edges" to, idk, "dots and lines", kinda like TikTok has created "unalive"?

Can't wait to see what the almighty AI thinks about the Tits problem![1]

Or the Tits group[2] (I swear, I'm not a member!).

Very tempted to include Tits Alternative[3] as one of my interests on LinkedIn, but I'm afraid the result will be too predictable.

Side note: The two groups that don't satisfy the Tits Alternative are very dear to my heart. Writing software to do computation in Thompson's Group and its generalizations[4] was my introduction to geometric group theory. And I ended up with Grigorchuk as my graduate advisor after learning about the Grigorchuk group.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneser%E2%80%93Tits_conjecture

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_group

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_alternative

[4] https://github.com/romwell/nvTrees

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#105

Post by Haskell4life »

zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#106

Post by mandmandam »

mondrian wrote: post #86
mandmandam wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God it really is heinous. However, I don't think it's a consequence of the platform, but of work culture. People are like that because it works , and it works because we're deep, deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. The people profiting from destroying every public good - peace, pollution-free air and water and soil, housing, healthcare, etc etc - own basically everything. Our politici…

Relatively speaking, Instagram and Twitter are far more interesting than LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a special kind of horrible.

Absolutely, which is saying a lot given Twitter's current state.

But most employers won't be looking you up on Instagram or Twitter, unless you're in the type of work where they need to make sure your socials are sufficiently 'clean'.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#107

Post by bitcharmer »

cynicalsecurity wrote: post #5

Welcome to a brave new world of digital fascism and mass surveillance. Why does every message have to be scanned with AI? Since when WeChat behaviour has become an example for the Western social media? You don't scan all user private messages with AI, you give your users a report button which they can press if they don't like a message. Only then you can take any other measures. That's is.

I agree with you but please don't throw the term fascism left and right to refer to things you disagree with. The word's meaning is already twisted and diluted to the point of uselessness.

I grew up in a communist regime and can assure you tyranical censorship is not exclusive to fascism nor its sole defining part.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#108

Post by briandear »

bbor wrote: post #59
kybernetyk wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It’s not porn, it’s mixed use technology. Edge/edging ... of course it's a porn flag.

WOW that's the reason? I didn't catch that, that's both hilarious and disheartening. Dijkstra is rolling in his grave... I suppose we'll have to move from "nodes and edges" to, idk, "dots and lines", kinda like TikTok has created "unalive"?

Or how main branch has replaced master branch. Despite “mastering” and “master recordings” still being a thing in audio.

All these DAW companies insisting on devs using main branch despite having “mastering” plugins in their actual product.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#109

Post by ulfw »

rnts08 wrote: post #75

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

We never 'needed' a damn feed on Linkedin in the first place

I get updates from daughters fights with cancer of people I don't know. I don't need to see this on a 'professional' network. Not sure why people post such intimate private things.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

#110

Post by AmericanChopper »

bitcharmer wrote: post #101
lvncelot wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn't the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who "network" for networking's sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you're bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that's entirely networking-focused.

But LinkedIn wasn't like that 10 years ago. It was what it was meant to be. To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media. At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won't happen.

I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job/hire somebody, and for those things it’s really good. I don’t make any LinkedIn content, I don’t consume any of it, I don't struggle to ignore it entirely, and I don’t miss out on anything by doing so. Where exactly does it need to improve?
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