While I agree that most of the feed is filled with useless posts, for some business sectors it actually contains useful posts.

I work in the European energy market sector and LinkedIn is one of the to go places to catch up with developments in the markets, the latest the analyses, and upcoming events. And some posts are actually good, you just need to filter out the rest. I wish there would be a better platform for this specific content (maybe I'm simply missing it) but for now, I find it there.

Coming from a computer science background and kinda accidentally ended up in energy markets, I was surprised that LinkedIn is the place for this content I(in contrast to the computer science field).

Most people randomly accept invitations on LinkedIn: "We're both humans, so I felt we should connect!".

But if you actively prune / curate WHO you add to your LinkedIn, you end up with a feed that is genuinely useful.

What you do need to know is WHY you want to use LinkedIn. It could be to find your next job, finding potential customers, or just keeping up to date with <INDUSTRY>.

The trick here is to have connections that follow and like content that is worth following, ever since connecting with some peers in the database space, my feed is filled with things like new research, C++ performance optimizations, and the like, instead of management fables and feel good stories.

Yes, because I've banned myself from all the good sites.

When Twitter imploded I expected technical discussions to migrate to Mastodon or Bluesky. What happened next shocked me.

Technical content appeared on LinkedIn.

Not just one or two posts. Tens of posts. Every day. Technical content from the thought leaders in the industry.

Yes, there was still corporate slop.

Yes, LinkedIn still mostly serves for self-aggrandisement.

But there were nuggets of gold, for who were prepared to look for them.

Seriously: LinkedIn is still mostly garbage. The quality of discussion is not great. But it has improved a bit, and given the fractured nature of social media at the moment it's somewhat viable to use it for technical content.

I don't add people to my network to reduce the noise. I don't pay but get "requests" for software development that are not personally directed, so I delete those. Any job advertisement I am notified about is closed by the time I click on it, within seconds of the email. Any misspelt ad is a phishing crime in the making.

Maybe I should give them money :)

You have to ruthlessly prune the feed to get something worth reading.

The daily puzzle games have more worth than the average linkedin post.

I find it's easy to scroll past very sloppy posts. And 1 in 2 posts are genuinely interesting/teach me something new about the world and the people in it - how people conduct business - and most of all their improbable trajectories that got them where they are currently in their career. It's very interesting and the recommendations are great for me. I don't find too much slop or cringe content, and am confused when people complain about it so much. It feels like people don't really know how to separate slop content (self-promotion/empty AI posts) from genuinely written life and work experiences. And HN is definitely an echo-chamber, I see a huge amount of people (more than instagram tbh in mid-30s age bracket) contribute regularly to linkedin.

it is more interesting than internal ms viva

I created a similar tool a year ago -> https://infiniteutils.com/internet/linkedin-post-generator

Try Kagi translate to LinkedIn

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin

Power users will always want custom tools. But most users aren't power users

People already posted this slop "by hand" before generative tech accessibility. In fact, generative models are good at it because they were trained on massive amounts of horse crap people posted and shared.

The evil characters on LinkedIn aren't the poor souls posting cringe, it's the 15 people who chime in with encouragement in the comments.

Friends don't let friends post cringe

I may or may not have instructed Claude to built me a LinkedIn Bot that creates posts for predefined topics, comments and likes others posts and scarpes the page for jobs. Let's say a minority on LinkedIn actually reads the content others post, so my reach and impressions are continually growing without me doing anything on that cesspool of a social app. Thanks AI, I guess.

zero, I guarantee whatever model provider this site is a frontend for is already powering a large portion of linkedin activity.

Can you post the result? My attempt of "Using AI for a novel financial scam" / "You go girl" didn't go through.

My first one (That happened: Wine snobs) is already hilarious! Looks like LLMs are coming for comedians next.

Wow, I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing it out.

same, also what I noticed

> I don't know if engaging with that button means I'm less likely to be served such content, or whether it's cleaning up everyone's feeds.

I would guess it's both cause I've been having less AI slop on LinkedIn for the past few weeks (yet not none).

I only want linkedin cringe if it's of the artisanal, hand crafted, organic, free range, GMO free, fair trade, heirloom variety.