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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by heisenbit »

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.

And how on earth can Microsoft AI question the appropriateness of a video which was greenlit by Google Youtube AI? It makes my AI head spin.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by seszett »

sho wrote: post #92
seszett wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn's message is: > Message removed for adult nudity and sexual activity

That is probably the default message for anything that was flagged.

That would be totally stupid, although I guess it's possible.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by giamma »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #110
bitcharmer wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Same as you, but I cannot find a good configuration for the linkedin App to prevent it from sending me too many notifications. I get 5+ notifications per day related to "this message is trending...", "your contact posted this...", "you are invited to do that...." and buried between them, from time to time, contact invitations that are worth considering.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by mppm »

p-e-w wrote: post #114
bitcharmer wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media. Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people. The trend towards that cult…

Maybe that's what the platform creators tell themselves for the sake of being able to sleep at night. From my view, social media systematically brings out bad habits that people have much less trouble suppressing in face-to-face conversation. That is true even if the platform is well-intentioned, but if it isn't and deliberately prioritizes click-bait and borderline spam content to keep the ad machine churning (i.e. every SM platform today), then the "it's just human nature" excuse becomes very very thin, IMO.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by IshKebab »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #110
bitcharmer wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I agree. Reading the fluff nonsense is totally optional.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by sulandor »

ulfw wrote: post #109
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.

some ppl distinguish between professional and personal lives, most don't

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by AmericanChopper »

giamma wrote: post #123
AmericanChopper wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Same as you, but I cannot find a good configuration for the linkedin App to prevent it from sending me too many notifications. I get 5+ notifications per day related to "this message is trending...", "your contact posted this...", "you are invited to do that...." and buried between them, from time to time, contact invitations that are worth considering.

You can turn all that off. If managing that is too annoying, every time you get a notification you can select to turn that type of notification off.

I was also annoyed by this, but I’ve managed to get it to be pretty quite now.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by codetrotter »

olivermuty wrote: post #91
waihtis wrote: post #79

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the modern consumer in a nutshell: you can effectively ban them from your platform and they will still weasel their way back through the tiniest crack in the system. That chinese counterfeit junk amazon sells is just too lucrative

I don’t get why you get downvoted on this comment. Anyone buying from Amazon should realize they are buying from Temu in a trenchcoat, filling the pockets of an immoral man who treats his warehouse workers like chattel. I have bought from amazon exactly once in four years now, because a vendor (a chinese one!) has Amazon as the only outlet where they provide warranty because they are plagued with counterfeits and boo…

I don’t find any Playdigi Apex, but I find Flydigi Apex. Is that the one?

https://www.amazon.com/PC-Controller-Feedback-Force-Adjustab...

And how different is it from for example this one, which under half the price and looks like it has a better rating?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY83CL2D

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by chii »

rlayton2 wrote: post #11
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…

This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back. This is one of the anti-google arguments, the other main one being they kill big projects all the time. You are right though, it can be crippling, and this thinking part of your personal (and business) risk profil…

> This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account.

this should be regulated. For example, electricity/utility companies cannot just abruptly close your account, without giving massive notice in advance, and justified reason (such as non-payment).

The internet has become utilities, and it's not just the pipe, but the monopoly applications on it such as email, etc. Being deplatformed unjustly has as bad an effect as being disconnected from the grid and utilities. This means the gov't needs to make sure this can only happen under regulated ways, and not at the whims of the company.

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