Why is nobody disrupting LinkedIn?

5 spicchiantano 3 8/26/2025, 7:16:32 PM

Title says it all. LinkedIn seems to be the only business "social" network left, and it is such a massive shitshow.

The UI/UX is stuck in 2004, the feed algorithm is atrocious and insufferable, and the networking stuff seems to have lost all meaning.

Come on people, build something new.

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duxup · 4h ago

Facebook UI/UX is horrible and there it is.

People just don't move easily.

If there was some magic trigger or playbook that no name sites could come up with to get a mass quantity of migration ... that would be big news.

Finnucane · 4h ago

Maybe LinkedIn is like the B Ark of social networks? It doesn't get disrupted because it's already fulfilling its function.

spicchiantano · 3h ago

is it, though?

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Why is nobody disrupting LinkedIn?

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