Strong words. I'm surprised to see this much criticism of LI. I find genuinely useful content there (happy to share examples). I also post regularly, in good faith and after careful research - though engagement is modest, to be fair.
But the consensus here seems to be that LI is basically garbage.
Two questions:
1. Is there anything beyond anecdotal evidence for that?
2. What are the recommended alternatives for posting articles?
I know Substack is an option, but it seems to create a certain pressure or expectation to post regularly, which I don't really want. Medium, as I understand it, is out of fashion.
I have no idea about [1]. I have a LI account but only ever go on to accept the random network requests and then ignore all the messages from people, since they are mostly cold asks for recommendations to openings at my company.
But for [2], isn't the obvious solution to buy a domain and host a blog or some type of site that you can share posts via an rss feed? That seems pretty standard to me and also helps everyone know where your internet house is.
ljubomir · · focus · HN ↗
But the consensus here seems to be that LI is basically garbage.
Two questions:
1. Is there anything beyond anecdotal evidence for that? 2. What are the recommended alternatives for posting articles?
I know Substack is an option, but it seems to create a certain pressure or expectation to post regularly, which I don't really want. Medium, as I understand it, is out of fashion.
hellojesus · · focus · HN ↗
But for [2], isn't the obvious solution to buy a domain and host a blog or some type of site that you can share posts via an rss feed? That seems pretty standard to me and also helps everyone know where your internet house is.