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Linkedin without lunatics is deeply weird<br>dom<br>Jun 29, 2026

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Having created a tool I’d like people to use, I have to be on linkedin sometimes.<br>It feels like dropping into an alternate universe, a kind of cacophonous hellmouth where business demons emerge. There’s a subreddit devoted to the most unhinged posters called r/LinkedInLunatics.<br>To try to make my life more liveable when interacting with this circle of hell I got an LLM to make a browser extension that blocks every post that wasn’t made by a person I’m directly connected to.<br>It works fine but the experience is extraordinary.

I’m on the hook for about 45 seconds and 110 hidden posts before I can see 2 (two!) posts by people I’ve deliberately connected with.<br>This is a 55:1 ratio of “things I couldn’t care less about” to “things I might plausibly be interested in seeing”.<br>I’d love to see this kind of product logic applied elsewhere.<br>On asking for a route to a museum in a new city, I’d love for my maps application to only provide routes that direct me to 55 locations between here and there that I have to visit before being allowed to see my actual destination.<br>When I order a 500ml drink from my local bar, I’d love to have to also down 30 liters of different fluids that the owner keeps behind the bar; liquid soap, pickle brine, tomato passata, bleach, whatever.<br>Watching the World Cup in the last weeks has been great, but wouldn’t it be better if you had to watch an hour of jai alai before being allowed to see a minute of Brazil vs Japan?

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