I agree with you, I have been pleasantly surprised to see the number of discussions on social topics on LinkedIn and majority of it is civil. I have been using it a lot more!
Thanks, we should spread the word! Every time I mention LinkedIn to my academic colleagues who are not terminally online, they're surprised the platform even has any social media capabilities.
I like LinkedIn. But its starting to wear on me. One of the problems I've noticed of late is that LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be going the way of Facebook and other social media platforms by pushing content designed to poke, provoke and stimulate people so as to keep them on the platform far longer than they need to be. It rewards engagement. I'm learning to recognize the signals and to discipline myself so as to waste less time and stay focused on people who bring real value, not people trying to game the algorithm by posting constantly. The AI slop is a real nuisance. It seems Stefan Schubert is right, that the solution is to 'retrain' the algorithm so that one's feed is not inundated with slop and half-baked content. But that takes an investment in time.
Yeah, no social media platform is perfect--and none of them has a good out-of-the-box experience either (with a possible exception of Substack Notes). But what Bluesky shows is that even without an algorithm, humans still tilt toward engagement-bait and provocation. Perhaps we should all just take a break from social media every once in a while :)
A possible advantage of LinkedIn is that it has lots of money.
Twitter never really made money, and bluesky I think neither. And this influences service quality
It's pretty obvious that X is understaffed, and bluesky seems the same.
Those systems needs lots of cash to be working effectively
Good point, I haven't thought about this aspect!
I agree with you, I have been pleasantly surprised to see the number of discussions on social topics on LinkedIn and majority of it is civil. I have been using it a lot more!
Thanks, we should spread the word! Every time I mention LinkedIn to my academic colleagues who are not terminally online, they're surprised the platform even has any social media capabilities.
I like LinkedIn. But its starting to wear on me. One of the problems I've noticed of late is that LinkedIn's algorithm seems to be going the way of Facebook and other social media platforms by pushing content designed to poke, provoke and stimulate people so as to keep them on the platform far longer than they need to be. It rewards engagement. I'm learning to recognize the signals and to discipline myself so as to waste less time and stay focused on people who bring real value, not people trying to game the algorithm by posting constantly. The AI slop is a real nuisance. It seems Stefan Schubert is right, that the solution is to 'retrain' the algorithm so that one's feed is not inundated with slop and half-baked content. But that takes an investment in time.
Yeah, no social media platform is perfect--and none of them has a good out-of-the-box experience either (with a possible exception of Substack Notes). But what Bluesky shows is that even without an algorithm, humans still tilt toward engagement-bait and provocation. Perhaps we should all just take a break from social media every once in a while :)
Hacker News comments (ycombinator) have more civil debate than anywhere else I currently visit.