On: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Unrelated, but linkedin has the most user hostile notifications of any site I have ever seen.

I got a notification to follow a podcast the other day. Not a person I follow asking me to follow it, it was a notification saying "here is a random podcast do you want to follow it."

How the hell is that a thing that companies can buy?

[tornato7 → thisgoesnowhere]

Way back in the day I used to get excited when I saw a notification from Facebook / Reddit / LinkedIn. Now, every notification is this kind of crap, so I make sure to block all notifications from these apps.

I'm sure these sorts of changes increase engagement in the short term but are detrimental to the product in the long term. I really think that change was the beginning of the end for Facebook in particular.

[edgyquant → tornato7]

I unsubscribed from LinkedIn notifications and they just keep finding creative ways to send me some more

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I'm pretty sure that these companies always try to give you at least one notification a day, so that you never log on to see nothing new.

Agreed that it's user-hostile, but it's presumably effective as a retention tactic.

[mkj → thisgoesnowhere]

Exactly. If you set your account to "Hibernated" it won't bother you again.

Simply unsubscribing isn't really feasible given the dark patterns in their notification settings page, nested trees of boxes to untick.

[myaccountonhn → thisgoesnowhere]

It’s bananas how much they spam you