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My vote is for LinkedIn. Who actually likes using that thing?

LinkedIn is a paradox. It's basically a free online resume to most people. A small subset actually post on it trying to build their brand. And then an even smaller subset don't understand that it's basically social media at work and spend their time posting political opinions and conspiracy theories that make them look bad.

I've never used LinkedIn for anything other than to respond to recruiters and look up people's backgrounds.

It can be useful for job seeking and maintaining contact with professional connections, but reading the feed full of self congratulatory and/or virtue signaling posts is a complete waste of time.

Possibly post-Musk Twitter. Half or more of the people I read left the platform and the app keeps getting worse.

I don't believe this for a second.

I think it's highly dependent on the user. A technically inclined HN user probably knows people who shifted to a tech Mastodon instance (like infosec.exchange).

As a personal anecdote, the people I know who cut back on Twitter did so long before Musk due to general social media burnout.

Quite a lot of my feed was Popehat, Tqbf, and Mjg59, who have all left the platform (more or less). Also a handful of low volume, personal friends went to Mastodon or retired from the platform.

The vast majority of cybersec people I followed left, and tbh I only used the platform for them.

half of the "people" maybe.

> Possibly post-Musk Twitter.

I don't have an active twitter account, so one of the things I like from post-Musk Twitter is that it no longer requires me to login for reading tweets or for searching.

Same, site's actually way, way better now for us non-account-havers.

And the dumb shit Elon posts and all the times he kicks himself in the balls are way funnier than before he acquired 'em.

Overall, I'm happier with the site since he took over, personally. But then I'm rooting for its demise, preferably with as much drama and humor along the way as possible, so of course I like it.

My Twitter feed got waaaay worse for a few months post acquisition but I'd say it's better than ever in the past two or three months

I've been having a great time using LinkedIn. I only like and follow data people. My feed is only data and there are a lot of high-quality creators. I unfollow anyone that posts personal content or low-quality data "self-help"/motivational stuff. Just checked my feed and the top 10 posts were all good.

A lot of job search stuff is centered around it still. Recruiters find me there. But when I wasn't using it was just noise.

I use the desktop site for jobs; I wouldn't download the app if they paid me.

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