Something has changed recently with the algorithm on LinkedIn, and I have to say I don’t like it much. Am suddenly getting these posts – mostly written by men of a certain age, who have jobs that have things to do with tax and mortgages – spouting political opinions of the sort I strenuously try to avoid ordinarily. To be clear – I don’t follow these people, and wouldn’t ever choose to. However, they get lots of ‘engagement’ and so I think LinkedIn feels I would benefit from being exposed to them.

Clicking the toggle at the top to show ‘newest’ rather than ‘top’ posts in my feed helps, but it seems to reset every couple of hours.

LinkedIn is a weird place, mostly inhabited by cringelords and desperate sales people, but which has always (for me) rewarded the effort to find the good people and the interesting content, and is one of the few places one can share ideas about niche topics like local government IT without getting too embarrassed about it.

It would be a shame if that effort starts to become too much as a result of some muddle-headed race to the bottom in the name of engagement.

Any ideas on how to reduce the noise gratefully received (is there a “no gammons” button I’m missing? 😉 ) beyond the obvious marking posts with ‘not interested’, which seems to make no difference!