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> Linkedin is by far the most respectable social platform.

huh, that is … definitely not my experience of LinkedIn. My experience of LinkedIn is that it is a wasteland of hustle grindcore fake-it-till-you-make-it dipshittery.

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I'll trust pintrest before linkedin. I've read some of the most mind-numbingly stupid and pointless takes on linkedin of all platforms to date. It's great for some professions, like finance or marketing where image management is your entire job but for everyone else it is a particularly offensive time sink since it doesn't offer the recreational value traditional time sinks offer.

But that's not what LinkedIn is for. I never see those posts because the only thing I use LinkedIn for is to source inbound recruiters when I'm in the job market. Anyone who uses LinkedIn outside of the job hunt process (on either end) is kinda sus.

In that case I'm fishy because I'm mostly published on Linkedin —until they banned me for no reason whatsoever! You cannot imagine the drama at the time :D

You'll be shocked but there are real people on Linkedin. Some are incredibly smart! Some great entrepreneurs!

Statistically, you cannot have 1+ billion registered users and not have a few geniuses :)

Imagine if LinkedIn could give you relevant material and news related to your industry.

Instead I’m getting the top 10 tricks to make 70k Indian currency next to a 15 year old Reddit video.

Hilarious because true! But also sad because true!

Can you believe Microsoft paid $ 26.2 billion to acquire Linkedin? look at the network now. Imagine what could be done.

If I were the CEO, even for 1 year, I'd transform LI into one of the best platforms...

I used the expression "toxic positivity" in my article because LI is, by default, a wasteland of FAKE content.

But, and that's a BIG BUT, your feed completely changes if you train the algorithms for a while!

I tested with multiple accounts, and while the default feed looks like a parody, the main account rarely displays those pathetic posts.

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