Is there some reason all of these layoffs are happening today?
Ritual sacrifice to the quarterly gods
excellent phrasing. going to need to steal this
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#52Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…
> Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.
Isn't that what sites like indeed are?
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#53Ouch. And to think these people will have to to use their former product to get a new job. The only time you really need LinkedIn.
Ouch! That freaking sucks.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you're sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don't put my vot…
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None?
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#55What is the next best platform to move to?
If you haven’t tried fediverse apps yet, you should.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you're sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don't put my vot…
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You have missed the point by a fantastically, awe-inspiring amount.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#57What is the next best platform to move to?
This is actually a great question because LinkedIn has become ubiquitous in the professional world and I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything that is currently available to replace it. Could someone build it? Sure. Could someone gain the mindshare (and marketshare that it has)? Someday?
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#58Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…
> Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?
As someone who didn't bother to curate their LinkedIn account all I can say is: This is great news! Now my career opportunities are again the same as everybody else's.
Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees
#59Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted. I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile. Can someone please develop hacker news…
Well most people see LinkedIn as a central place to store resumes.
Being everyone’s free storage unit does not generally make money.
So they have to turn the resume storage part into a loss leader and turn a profit some other way. Being a place to list job postings is the most obvious but they have competition already.
Throwing on ads will make money but LinkedIn isn’t a site most people stick around on. Turning LinkedIn into a social media site keeps people on the site so the ads work, but it’s a pretty ugly way to do it. The type of people who are actually going to use LinkedIn like Facebook is probably the worst kind of people you want sticking around too.
LinkedIn could have stayed a small site with a small team but they got started by getting money from investors. Now they have other people to answer too.
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#60What is the next best platform to move to?
Meatspace. I don't think any digital platform is ever going to fill that role. By default anything online is already way less genuine feeling.