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LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by kelnos »

fritzo wrote: post #221
eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on graph neighborhood"? So collaborative filtering + ranking algorithms + moderation is not social media until you add graph neighborhoods?

I would say yes, that's a good way to make the distinction. It's even more than that: the feed is different for every single user.

With a site like HN, everyone sees the same front page at a given time. What makes it to the front page is primarily determined by all users voting up articles or moderating them. Yes, there's some algorithmic sauce behind it that weights votes and flags differently based on some other criteria, but the dominating factor is user votes and flags. And, again, everyone sees the same ordering of articles if they load the page at the same time.

HN is centered around topics and articles. Social media is centered around individuals and what they personally choose to post and promote.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by Banditoz »

noitpmeder wrote: post #4

The fact that they hijack scrolling to artificially limit scroll speed is insane to me. Feels like I'm trying to navigate through molasses

I recently found a bypass for this. Put this in your ublock origin custom rules:

  www.linkedin.com##main:style(font-size: 16px !important;)

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by pndy »

spike021 wrote: post #234
eximius wrote: post #177

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

social media is only bad if you don't curate what you're looking at. most the platforms these days have features to block posts containing certain words or hashtags. i've made a lot of great friends using social media over the years both where i live and in other countries.

Please. I have an extensive file with tags I've put into use to "curate" content on mastodon and bluesky. It works somehow on mastodon but the "main" server in their admins wisdom decided recently to remove live feeds to make experience supposedly more appealing. And now users are limited either to trending or manually searching posts or browsing by tags. They seriously limited exploration and interaction with new content there.

Bluesky on the other hand still serves me the content I tried to block or filter out. And whenever I go into other feeds in the end I'll be flooded with never ending stream of x-rated drawn content that I don't want to see. Interests set or not - I can't escape that stuff. My partner complains for same things.

Facebook in my last days there decided to limit posts from my friends because I wasn't active enough to feed the algorithm, and instead filled main activity stream with generated graphics. Instagram was somewhat fine up until bought by facebook - after that interacting with any content would poison your stream with stuff for months.

Reddit has become an interaction and content clown show once they started pushing for this "modern" interface. I won't create there account ever again due to how they started treating their users.

So there's this "curation" for me.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by spike021 »

blharr wrote: post #317
spike021 wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

social media is only bad if you don't curate what you're looking at. most the platforms these days have features to block posts containing certain words or hashtags. i've made a lot of great friends using social media over the years both where i live and in other countries.

Most social media is actively against that, feeding you recommendations to keep you on the platform.

The only site that actively funnels me with recommendations is Youtube at this point. In most cases that's fine for my taste because I use youtube as more of a learning platform for things like car mechanics, photography, etc. So it doesn't serve me anything toxic.

For the other social media platforms, my setup shields me from that pretty well.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by zffr »

The performance of both the website and the iOS app is also not great. On the iOS app, I frequently see frames dropped and scrolling is sometimes blocked for up to a second or more at a time.

LinkedIn's feed is certainly not simple, but modern iPhones should be more than capable of rendering it at 60fps.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by spike021 »

pndy wrote: post #344
spike021 wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

social media is only bad if you don't curate what you're looking at. most the platforms these days have features to block posts containing certain words or hashtags. i've made a lot of great friends using social media over the years both where i live and in other countries.

Please. I have an extensive file with tags I've put into use to "curate" content on mastodon and bluesky. It works somehow on mastodon but the "main" server in their admins wisdom decided recently to remove live feeds to make experience supposedly more appealing. And now users are limited either to trending or manually searching posts or browsing by tags. They seriously limited exploration and interaction with new co…

It seems like a lot of your issues with the major platforms are from years ago?

Instagram and X never show me political topics or hype-related things because I am quick to enter related keywords into the filtering mechanisms.

Instagram can sometimes try to force through things but in general my feed has been pretty clean to the extent that rather than showing me random garbage it'll just say I've reached the end of the latest posts from people I follow. Besides, most people I want to keep up with these days post more often to stories. If anything the issue with stories is more frequent ads/sponsored posts but those are different from just recommendation junk.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by h4kunamata »

All the data harvesting requires a lot of resources.

LinkedIn in 2026 means a social media full of slope AI posts where folks interact with it without noticing it.

Relationship posts, and even OF alike posts that you only see on Instagram/X

Linkedin is not longer a platform focused into work and networking.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by conductr »

cosmicgadget wrote: post #313
mattmanser wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone was pointing out in a thread the other day about memory usage, a lot is fonts and images. EDIT: Just mind boggling to get d/v'ed for pointing out voyager doesn't have to render fonts or images...

How much? You typically don't want more than a few different fonts on a given document. And neither fonts nor web images should be bigger than hundreds of kilobytes. How do we get to gigs?

> How do we get to gigs?

Are you aware of what LinkedIn is? How the app behaves?

While it’s obscene, I am not surprised at all.

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