If they keep the notification feature and the choice to only get notifications from such long form content, that'd be even cooler.
Who am I kidding.
There's a reason Twitter is bigger and more addictive than both of the above, and that's because people don't have the patience to read more than a few sentences at a time without getting bored. Most of what's posted on Twitter isn't that interesting, so people keep scrolling to find the next minor dopamine hit.
They are communities of job seekers and job providers who are constantly trying to showcase their skills or scouting for talent.
When was the last time you thought you could speak your mind on Linkedin?
Also, I have a special place of hatred in my heart for linkedin because the news feed is a reflection of corporate bootlicking and corporate promotion that borders on insane.
They cannot be compared to Twitter, which is clearly anonymous (if the user wants such) and more open.
What's actually wrong with this? People want to get hired, people want to hire.
> When was the last time you thought you could speak your mind on Linkedin?
I signed up for a linkedin account a couple of months ago and used it a couple of times and otherwise have no idea how it works. But I guess I would feel about the same as speaking my mind in any workplace or professional function. That is to say I would not say a thing about religion, politics, sex, medical concerns, etc., so I'm not sure what your rhetorical question is getting at. Do you think people should more freely speak their minds about things like that in professional settings? Or that linkedin would be less of a cesspool if they refrained?
> Also, I have a special place of hatred in my heart for linkedin because the news feed is a reflection of corporate bootlicking and corporate promotion that borders on insane.
Not sure what you define as bootlicking exactly but that just seems to be what some people do. I've seen what I consider almost obsessive worship of companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc., by people who desperately want jobs with them for many many years before ever seeing a single linkedin page. People bootlick celebrities, political parties, government bureaucrats, etc too. I would try to be more accepting and tolerant, or at least not let people being people upset you too much.
> They cannot be compared to Twitter, which is clearly anonymous (if the user wants such) and more open.
Twitter comes to mind as one place where I have seen astounding amounts of this bootlicking. And I don't even have a twitter account it's just from occasionally reading comments on some tweet I followed a link to.
LinkedIn is full of posts that are put up by employees that are filled to the brim with either extreme compassion / extreme empathy / self congratulatory likes/comments on their bosses or higher ups in the company.
Its just so artificial.
Also, the point I was making was in response to the parent comment lamenting that opening up twitter for longer posts will lead to it becoming another Linkedin or Medium. My point was that the social structure and context of Twitter will never allow that to happen because (as I expanded) the social structure and context of LinkedIn and Medium are very different.
I am not really sure why you are questioning me.
Oh. Like Elon Musk or Sundar Pichai? Or their managers or team leaders or boss's boss?
> Its just so artificial.
I can assure you the former is rampant all over social media including twitter and the latter is rampant in actual workplaces.
I'm questioning you because I wanted to learn more about what you wrote. I accept you like twitter and think linkedin is a cesspool, it's just not clear to me exactly why that is.
It's its own unintentional genre. Once you learn to recognize it, you see it everywhere.
I don't personally have a LinkedIn account (and am thus blocked from using it for the most part) and I do have multiple Twitter accounts. However, from what I've seen of my friend group, random acquaintances and online stats aggregators, I'm in the minority.
From what I can tell, normal people almost all have LinkedIn while Twitter is mostly still just for people in activism, tech or journalism.
> Twitter is mostly still just for people in activism, tech or journalism.
Music? TV shows? Books? Comedy? Art?
My Twitter has all of those. It doesn't just have to be a medium for doomscrolling.
Will it, though ? It's not like it'd be replacing the core Twitter experience, it can be added as a link to a tweet "Here's a nicely formatted longer content". Now of course there are only 2 or 3 people i follow who'd be into that and not the smaller posts crafted for engagement.