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I never used LinkedIn to land a job. I once received a relevant offer (compiler specialist located less than 500km away that requires relocating; the recruiter actually did a good job). I never got a ton of spammy offers, but I got enough to delete LinkedIn.

But YMMV. I also don’t have Facebook; I use GitHub as a portfolio page and do have some open source going on there.

Witnessing what happened to Marak, who broke his own npm libraries and got locked out of GitHub, my conclusion is that the platform does not operate on the user’s terms. Yet another mega corp.




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