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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by mrweasel »

bigfatkitten wrote: post #162
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 use LinkedIn as a contact list and as a way to find jobs, but I cannot stand the 'content'. I unfollow everyone I'm connected with just so I don't have to see any of it when I have the misfortune of having to log in.

LinkedIn starts to feel a little like Facebook years back. If you don't "engage" with the platform it will start throwing random posts at you.

Personally I think the shit posting started because people where not getting any reaction of Facebook anymore, after it turned into an algorithm driven ad pumping engine from hell. People want their posts read by other humans, and LinkedIn is the last place where this is actually happening. It's just that some people, especially those in marketing, online retail, management and HR absolutely suck at communication.

LinkedIn is great as a contact list and for job hunting, if you're a technical person. The same shit posting marketing people can't even sell themselves. If you have two people posting that they are looking for a job, and one it technical and the other is marketing or HR related, you'll see a clear different. The technical person can have multiple interviews lines up in hours, the marketing person will get comments like "Repost", "Someone has to know someone" or "Hire X, their great", but no one actually have a job.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by kouteiheika »

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. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back.

Yep, happened to me too. I have a gmail account from back when gmail was still in private beta. I know the correct password. I have access to the recovery email. I can't log in.

NEVER depend on Google for anything critical. If you're unlucky you'll get completely screwed over, and you won't be able to do anything about it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by unixhero »

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.

LinkedIn is awful

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by goodpoint »

konschubert wrote: post #155
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…

> deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind and the fact that almost nobody lives in deep poverty any more is because people get up in the morning and work hard to produce value.

Human civilization existed for thousands of years before the concept of work, value and money.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by DebtDeflation »

bigfatkitten wrote: post #162
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 use LinkedIn as a contact list and as a way to find jobs, but I cannot stand the 'content'. I unfollow everyone I'm connected with just so I don't have to see any of it when I have the misfortune of having to log in.

Same. I treat LI as a host for my CV and as a job board. Zero interest in it as a content publishing platform or social networking platform.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by Terr_ »

nickdothutton wrote: post #154

5 AM. On my treadmill. Sipping on my favorite plant-based, gut-friendly health drink. As I kickstart my day, I'm reminded how a healthy, thriving "ecosystem" is essential – both for me and the little people in my organization. Just like gut bacteria keep everything in balance, it's the insignificant little people and their micro-moments of trust, support, and empowerment that help our team thrive. In People Operation…

For a moment I thought that was the lead-in to: "The Hustle" [0]

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by konschubert »

goodpoint wrote: post #184
konschubert wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind and the fact that almost nobody lives in deep poverty any more is because people get up in the morning and work hard to produce value.

Human civilization existed for thousands of years before the concept of work, value and money.

I guess you don’t consider hunting and gathering work?

And humans were still starving, sick and poor.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by konschubert »

hkt wrote: post #176
konschubert wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind and the fact that almost nobody lives in deep poverty any more is because people get up in the morning and work hard to produce value.

This is simply untrue. Most of the dire circumstances of people around the world today can be traced back to European or American imperialism and increasingly financialised economies.

Yea and before that, people just chilled all day and the fried chickens just flew into their mouths while the all lived to see their kids grow old.

Got it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by konschubert »

mandmandam wrote: post #163
konschubert wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind and the fact that almost nobody lives in deep poverty any more is because people get up in the morning and work hard to produce value.

> Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind A most wretched lie. Systems of entrenched inequality and widespread poverty mostly emerged after agriculture and centralized state systems, not during early human history. That lie serves to shift the blame for people's struggles away from oligarchs and owners and onto their victims. Do you own a company perchance? ... What do your down-stream labour…

Look I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly.

Maybe we could work less and keep the standard of living the same. Or maybe we could work the same but live in a much better standard.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by dghughes »

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.

>To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.

Yes! It's ridiculous even in real life people self-censoring words what are they expecting to happen if they say kill, suicide, penis, even apparently the word thick?

But yes TikTok-ification has crept into pretty much all social media and as I mentioned for some in real life speech.

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