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LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/
32•BurnerBurner•1h ago

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jmathai•49m ago
LinkedIn is truly an odd place. I think it’s more performative than Instagram.
designerarvid•44m ago
It talks to that vain and insecure feeling that many of us have deep down.

Interestingly, unlike instagram the LinkedIn business model has nothing to do with it. It’s built around b2b sales and professional recruitment.

BurnerBurner•44m ago
Tech Instagram is worse they just like looking at flashing colors on screen with no meaning. I once saw like this dude flexing about how complex his code is by showing like this obsidian ass diagram like dude what am I supposed to appreciate here? how coupled your code is?
necklesspen•37m ago
Depends on your definition of more.

You can absolutely find non-performative posts on Instagram. There is value in a sincere post - ex. sharing pictures of your cat to your friends.

Whereas in LinkedIn no such value exists in my experience - I can't imagine myself posting there for any other reason than to be performative.

So in terms of % of posts being performative I don't think anything tops LinkedIn.

latentsea•16m ago
The only reason I have LinkedIn is because I think I'm supposed to.
QuantumNomad_•8m ago
People told me I was supposed to be on LinkedIn but I found it too silly a place to make an account. Then again, I was laid off from my job a while ago and I don’t really have a “network” irl nor online through which to find a new job, so maybe I am the sucker after all.
steve_j_choi•36m ago
Linkedin got saturated like a benchmark
nicebyte•36m ago
I am not joking when I say that 4chan is a more rejuvenating and life affirming place than Linkedin
plausibility•26m ago
Trolls posting absolute garbage /b/ are at least trying to evoke some feeling in you. Hard to say the same from the ‘I had dinner with my wife on a yacht. Here’s what it taught me about Series A VC relationships’ posting full of Claudisms and emojis.

Who’s the target audience for that?

nalekberov•35m ago
Why would you visit LinkedIn nowadays to begin with? Like besides corporate clowns who is genuinely active there?
hyperhello•31m ago
It’s part of the Microsoft network of properties that make everything harder to get up in the morning.
gwerbin•21m ago
It used to be the case that if you wanted a new job, you could strategically update your profile and over the next several days you would get bombarded by recruiter messages, some of which would actually be high-quality leads.
flarg•33m ago
I know there's a lot of hate for LinkedIn here on HN but it really is the only place to see where ex-colleagues are working at and what competitors say they are up to. It's kind of like a boring version of TwitterX, but essential to those of us in normie jobs.

I wish there was an alternative but at least there's not much right wing propaganda and it does just work.

riffraff•11m ago
That's the reason I use LinkedIn, and I have zero complaints about it in that form. Tho for me is more about keeping the connection rather than see what they work on.

OTOH I do see the performative posting "I bumped my pinky toe on the cupboard and here's what it taught me about leading teams" and I genuinely don't understand who they're writing for. Isn't it obviously bullshit for everyone? Who cares about that?

stavros•7m ago
I wouldn't mind LinkedIn at all if I could turn off the feed.
shrubby•30m ago
Yes. I must use it within sandbox and single signon MFA and a password that questions my sanity to login. Even with this it regularly manages to sucks the soul dry occasionally.
shrubby•29m ago
I remind you of the better version ShlinkedIN! Unfortunately it seems to be dead these days.
stavros•27m ago
I hate LinkedIn so much I made a slop cannon for it. I have Claude research a topic and post an extremely LLM slop post about BuSiNeSs twice a week, and of course everyone comments with slop comments and I reply in kind.

I immortalised the posts here:

https://thinkpieces.stavros.io/

gwerbin•17m ago
Ironically I think these are insightful. If you want to produce true slop, you need to dumb down your topic selection, or have Claude pick the topics. The stuff about the incompatible goals of "data strategy" I think is genuinely useful perspective, for example.
stavros•14m ago
Claude does pick the topics! I worry I did too good a job steering it. I found a few of them insightful too, but it doesn't matter, what matters is that they're same old "They were doing a thing. It failed." Claude writing you see everywhere, intensifying the feeling that nobody on LinkedIn has a pulse.
Tade0•10m ago
I second that other comment - this is still above average in terms of LinkedIn content.
stavros•9m ago
Damnit. I need to try harder to reach the level of the average poster. Sadly, downwards.
vachina•23m ago
You need to prune your Indian connections.
kleiba2•17m ago
I don't have a LinkedIn account and don't really care about it. The one thing, however, that bothers me to no end is all the many, many times when a LinkedIn page comes up near the top of the results to a Google query, then I click on it, and chances are I don't get to the actual information, but to the LinkedIn log-in page.

Not that I think that this is LinkedIn's fault, but I assume Google's rationale is that "everybody has a LinkedIn account" so it's fine to include result pages that cannot be accessed without one.

f311a•11m ago
Never seen such posts, my feed contains different kind of larping.
ex-aws-dude•6m ago
Working games mine is all layoff posts recently

Just scrolled now and saw like 5

cyral•7m ago
Finance LinkedIn is filled with slop posts about "Look at the trading terminal I built. Real math. Here's why it matters." and it's some clearly vibecoded pointless app. Comments are all "Insane project <name>!"

It is funny that they actually added a "Looks like AI Slop" button on the menu for each post.

logdahl•6m ago
I often get notifications to play LinkedIn games, Zip or whatever. The games are very trivial and on a timer, where you end up on some kind of network leaderboard. I never play them party because they're boring, but also, I'm utterly scared that they use them as a intelligence signal in recruiting or selling it to 3rd party ATSs. There are so many companies hungry for arbitrary "smartness" indicators, this wouldn't even chock me.

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