LinkedIn is a silo, and daring to so much as suggest one temporarily leave it is punished.
The currencies of this platform are engagement and ad impressions. If you aren’t actively using LinkedIn, you cannot be served advertisements. You are not engaging with content, and you can be tracked far less.
To dare to share a link which might drag people away is condemned by the algorithm to the nth degree.
I knew this. I’ve seen the ‘Link in comments’ verbiage, but never did I expect links to be as vilified as they are. A post with a link is dead on arrival. Posts containing links are sent into the ether by LinkedIn’s algorithm.
This is the World Wide Web, an interconnected network, not a lone strand that should be dominated by a few major platforms. Links are the backbone of this place, and they matter, yet I’m forced to relegate them to a footnote of my posts if I want any return from this platform.
I’m disappointed, but that is the way it is. The algorithm’s link-suppression policy is just one of many reminders that LinkedIn doesn’t have your best interests at heart.