[DonThomasitos]

LinkedIn is Tiktokified social media brainrot disguised as serious work. „Hey - you‘re not wasting time, you‘re building your network and gather industry knowledge!“

LinkedIn is full if so called professionals who make a living by leveraging their brand. If you‘re not one of them, leave

[Aurornis]

Most people don’t log in to LinkedIn to check the feed. They don’t interact with the feed at all.

It’s used for keeping contacts, having your online resume in a standard place, and maybe messaging people.

The feed is a sideshow. It enrages a lot of people because it’s full of slop, but you need to treat it like almost everyone else: Ignore it. It’s a sideshow.

[nicbou]

I use it as write-only media and I had an okay experience. I have met a lot of people IRL through LinkedIn.

[dboreham]

Kind of. I've had a strict policy since LinkedIn launched of only connecting with people I've actually met and had at least some meaningful conversation with. Most of my contacts are former work colleagues. I think this makes my feed and audience a bit less spammy and grifty.

[ericmay]

Never connect with anyone you haven’t met. If a work colleague or someone is on a call and doesn’t use video, no connection either. Don’t upload and store your resume on LinkedIn. There is no reason to do so.

Also, I don’t recall where this setting is, but make the default behavior such that if someone finds you and tries to connect with you, they actually follow you instead. This cuts down aggressively on spammers because in order to actually connect with you they would have to view your profile, open the … menu, and then click connect. If they aren’t paying attention they’ll just follow you instead of connect which means you can broadcast to them but they can’t broadcast to you.