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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by stavros »

eastbound wrote: post #49
coffeefirst wrote: post #36

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Yep, it would be a huge mess. This is what lead me to switch to Fastmail. If it's _essential_, it's probably worth paying for to ensure you have real support. It just so happens that Fastmail is also puts out an excellent product.

Fastmail is excellent, but for business purpose… they lack Google Docs, Meet, Drive, Chrome (so you have to create a Google account anyway if you want to save your Chrome bookmarks) and being the major SSO provider on the market.

So? Use Google for those, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by guappa »

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

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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?

By default linkedin will send you emails when "one of your contacts posted something" or "someone opened your profile"; or even "someone wrote to you, open the website so you can read what they wrote".

And basically if you don't open it for a few days it will send you some email to remind you it exists.

They decided to keep people on it a-la facebook, rather than stick to what's supposed to do

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by deskr »

kybernetyk wrote: post #39
totetsu wrote: post #13

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It’s not porn, it’s mixed use technology. The persons decentralized LORA radio messaging platform, is another persons disaster resilience platform, is another persons hobby project, is another persons anti censorship tool, is another persons improvised frontline communications tool, is another persons counter-terrorism ai ban hammer trigger.

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

Primitive filters. You'd expect LinkedIn to do better than that. Seems like a classic Scunthorpe Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by tybulewicz »

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…

My Amazon account was recently limited to digital goods. Supposedly it was caused by too many returns. I've checked and I have 2 orders returned during 15 years of purchases.

There was a way to raise concern, but the email was ignored.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by deskr »

romwell wrote: post #104
bbor wrote: post #59

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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 generaliz…

Or copper nanotubes. The classic nanotubes are made from carbon (C), called CNTs. The copper (Cu) are called CuNTs.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-013-5387-8

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by guappa »

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

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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…

Come on.

They hide anything my actual friends do, and just show some rage inducing video for the sake of keeping me there. It doesn't happen by mistake.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by AmericanChopper »

attendant3446 wrote: post #135
AmericanChopper wrote: post #110

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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?

> look for a job > it’s really good It definitely is not. It probably has the most job listings for most markets, but the experience of looking for a job on LinkedIn is appalling. They recently killed the resume builder, which makes me think that job searching/hiring is a side feature of LinkedIn.

That probably says more about the market you’re in, or you as a candidate. Every time I’ve looked for a job on LinkedIn I’ve found one almost immediately, and the recruiters I know who most reliably have something for me I all met via LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by xnorswap »

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.

If linkedIn stuck to showing you posts from people you're connected to, it wouldn't be so bad.

But when half your feed is engagement bait or "inspirational" posts fed by algorithm under a "Suggested posts" banned, then it gets worse.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by rnts08 »

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

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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.

Yes, LI 10-15 years ago was a decent site for professional networking, before it got too much like social media. Looking for work, get in touch with or keep in touch with people that you share professional interests with.

I guess it wouldn't be technically challenging to create a platform for this, the problem would be to bring the right users and as you say, moderate the content to avoid what it has become today.

Show your certificates? Amazing!

Selfie with some half-assed inspirational "leader" quote? No!

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by stavros »

bbor wrote: post #52
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…

It's shockingly frustrating and disheartening. I recently (like, yesterday) got permanently banned from Reddit for "report abuse", for some random semi-nonsense comment I reported a month ago on a meme subreddit. Regardless of how justified that is or isn't -- I only have one side of the story to share of course, and I think I just got caught in some labor-saving measures for their underpaid+overworked admin staff --…

Can you not just create another account?
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