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1. LinkedIn is pretty much the only social network out there where the average person has a shot at a little reach for their posts.

   Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”

2. I keep my profile updated as a consultant because it lets clients and others in my company get a fuller gauge than my one pager.

   Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs”

3. the most-accessible job listings are on LI - more so because that's where most (American) companies & recruiters post to

   Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “LinkedIn Larpmaxxing”

4. A LinkedIn account's sole purpose is publishing, dissemination, and advertising information about you and your company.

   Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over”

5. It keeps my audience and people in my industry aware of what I am working on, and that makes my work more impactful.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Vanity activities”

6. LinkedIn for B2B, hands down. We sell to hardware manufacturers and decision makers there actually check their feed.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Ask HN: Using X vs. LinkedIn?”

7. It solved the long running problems of: a) keeping tabs on people across company moves b) a public, standardized CV

   Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?”

8. To be fair it’s been pretty useful for me for finding jobs by looking for a relevant person and messaging them.

   Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn”

9. LinkedIn's algorithm to be the best of the main platforms at respecting my choices of who I want to hear from

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell”

10. I too loathe LinkedIn. However it kinda feels like you have to use it if you’re a freelance senior developer

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn”

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

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”

12. There were always awful million-view posts written by humans, useless influencers promoted by the algorithm.

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)”

13. This has made LinkedIn truly blissful for me, but this only seems to work on the LinkedIn web app on my PC.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “LinkedIn Feed Blocker”

14. I open it to do the daily puzzles. But it means that I'm subject to 1 or 2 cringe posts before I get there.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”

15. Isn't it better to have a single place you check when you need a job because everyone else is also there?

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “We're losing our voice to LLMs”

16. smashing the "not interested in this" button consistently for a few days greatly reduced "slop about AI"

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn”

17. LI continues to be popular with the audience segment and geographic location I'm primarily working with.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”

18. It's still a good tool to interact with recruiters, look at companies and reach out to their employees.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “We're losing our voice to LLMs”

19. it’s deteriorated to the point where shit-posting is becoming normalized, so it has that going for it

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs”

20. Having a decent linkedin profile, and getting regular contacts by recruiters on linkedin is the way.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?”

21. It's totally fine as a sort of virtual rolodex, maybe some content marketing, mediocre as job board

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets”

22. I have gotten plenty of value out of the platform - including BigTech companies reaching out to me.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming”

23. I find AI has destroyed it, even the posts by people should know better post fully ai written posts

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft”

24. If you're a founder, LinkedIn is a great place to find talent & drive inbound sales, at minimum.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell”

25. my posts are getting read, even if only by my connections, and that keeps my name in their minds

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell”

26. To me, LinkedIn is mostly just a way to find jobs, and also maintain an online resume of sorts

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs”

27. every week i get emails about jobs they think i might be interested in and its pretty on point

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell”

28. I have to use LinkedIn to sell. I only occasionally look at the feed but I am ruthlessly muting or blocking anyone who is blatantly foisting their AI drivel on other humans.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “The dead Internet is not a theory anymore”

29. Seems I was shadowbanned even after providing my ID, which seems insane to me that the main professional social network can just do that to someone without due process

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Never Give Them Your Face”

30. I would put money on the public statement by a LinkedIn official saying "Your profile is yours" will bite them in the future as they certainly don't treat it that way.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data”

31. LinkedIn is such a shit fest. First they push AI generated posts, now you can mark posts as slop but guess what: you're not flagging that content, you're labeling it.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “LinkedIn Larpmaxxing”

32. Not clear why it needs to scan for Amazon image downloaders, Rufus conversation extracters, Amazon delivery scheduler, Product Scanner, or pharmacy operations.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer”

33. it is unacceptable to tell a user "oh we have been using your personal data for 5 months already and will continue to do so unless you explicitly opt out"

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request”

34. It started out as sort of digital resume website where you could also build a network, but ultimately devolved into a social media slop platform.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?”

35. LinkedIn is also suppressive. The algo for maximizing non-confrontational screen time is strongly tuned against: critical posts and comments.

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)”

36. a Microsoft product will actively do a bunch of horrible invasive stuff while simultaneously not caring about security of this private data

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer”

37. Working around deliberate API designs that are designed to make it harder to get a list of all installed extensions is inherently sinister.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer”

38. It was always a center of corporate slop and backpatting, something that in theory was optional but was more like a mandatory career chore

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)”

39. These large platforms that are protected by network effects should be highly regulated so they cannot abuse your privacy and rights.

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over”

40. the internet’s most wretched hive of engagement farmers and master solicitors of fake information and fictional anecdotes, LinkedIn

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software”