LinkedIn is hostile to content

[Anand S]

It's incredible how hostile LinkedIn is for reading / writing content.

• Posts containing links to external websites (like my blog) get significantly less reach. That's why you see links in comments, not the post!
• You can't copy content from posts on their mobile app. You can't even easily select the entire article on the web app! Selecting a part, and then shift-clicking elsewhere (which works almost everywhere) doesn't work.
• Also, the copied text isn't clean. It's filled with hidden text (e.g. "Skip to search"), duplicated text (e.g. author name repeated), and other junk.
• It's hard to export content. For example, the export feature does not include the original links in your articles, nor the links to images you posted!
• It's hard to scrape content. LinkedIn actively tries to prevent scraping, and their TOS prohibits it.
• No formatting. You have to embed unicode characters.
• Search is terrible. You can't search for posts by keyword, date, or author easily.
• No public posting - so you need to log in to read anything.

The only reason I'm on LinkedIn is because of the network. My current approach is:

1. Write on my blog: https://www.s-anand.net/
2. Copy paste on LinkedIn, formatted
3. Link to the original, and to hell with the reach

Over time, ... let's see.

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From: s-anand.net