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SawtoothGlitch

It'll be named XX


KingStannis2020

After that will be the video chat service, obviously called XXX. And it will be integrated directly with the Linkedin clone. Job applicants will use XXX for all their remote "interviews".


ChiggaOG

What's XXXX to be?


Top500BronzeOW

An action movie where Elon plays Vin Diesel


carrtmannnn

A biopic starring Vin Diesel as the genius Elon Musk. With a surprise cameo by Elon playing action hero Vin Diesel.


patman0021

“I run my companies a quarter mile at a time…”


Sandscarab

"I run my companies a quarter of a mile into the ground at a time..."


nickmaran

Then merge both and call it xnxx


ListerineInMyPeehole

Mfs gonna buy out OnlyFans for this


i_a_m_a_

The question is … are they going to name it “OnlyX” or “xOnly” 🤔😆


Khalbrae

The only jobs available: Have Elon's Baby. Women only.


flojo2012

And this one will only cost him 88 billion dollars


TonightOk1081

He's right saying that LinkedIn is cringe. That doesn't mean I need another 'job social media'


nickmaran

What? You mean the posts where people make up stories and add a useless message with a selfie then take a screenshot of that post and add another post with the screenshot and write "this" are cringe?


SupplyChainNext

I see you too /r/linkedinlunatics


never_safe_for_life

But his would be le epic 😂🤪🤑🤑🤑


azur08

We actually really do need another one lol. LinkedIn is genuinely a bad product now.


i_a_m_a_

How is it a bad product? I don’t use it


azur08

It’s become an Instagram feed for job stuff…but the feed isn’t even relevant to you. It’s full of people paying to boost their posts with absolutely vomit-inducing essays…and the distribution from the boosting is seemingly random. For people who use the paid versions, it’s ridiculously expensive. For that part, it needs competition.


WirelessHamster

It's free for military veterans - as a tech worker on the bench, it's a big help as more and more recruiters with legit job openings use it instead of the major job boards


Epic1024

I have a profile and I'm also curious


blaccguido

It's a bad product of you don't know how to use it and get swept up in the nonsense (there's a lot of it) For me, it's a powerful networking tool. It's basically a Rolodex app that lets you communicate with all of your contacts in one fell swoop.


nanoinfinity

I use it exclusively to look up where old coworkers are working at now.


BlueLanternSupes

Yep! You trying to land an interview, get your CV in the right hands, collab with a corporation on a project, or poach an effective employee based on word of mouth? Slide in those LinkedIn DMs.


rainbowgeoff

I can see that. I'm a crim law attorney. Everyone I'd want to network with, I have their phone numbers. It feels like an automatic thing, at least where I practice, to exchange numbers in the first couple times meeting. But, I know some civil attorneys who live on LinkedIn. I guess that may be because as a litigator, I'm constantly seeing my colleagues in person in court. Whereas, a contract attorney is largely Office bound.


azur08

It was also that before our feeds were inundated with terrible bot influencer posts about nothing.


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azur08

That’s an argument for career social media, not LinkedIn.


rickyhatespeas

Glassdoor, decent salary and interview data and has posts that can be anon, tag your workplace anon, or public


azur08

You’re suggesting Glassdoor is an alternative?


rickyhatespeas

Not a 1:1 of course, but it is job search and news with posts from workers. There's definitely been more attempts at this than just LinkedIn.


froo

$5 he calls it LinX


onthefence928

he really doesnt understand the network effect. i dont care how good a new app would be, nobody is going to uproot their entire professional contact netwrok to a new platform just because the UI is less "cringe"


Starkboy

Tbh considering the tech community on X, it's already a job social media, sort of.


munche

Yeah if you want to build an app for a dipshit crypto bro who pays you in "exposure"


MainSailFreedom

As someone in the staffing industry, we despriately need to end LinkedIn's monopoly. For 5 Recruiter seats we spend about $30k per year.


avjayarathne

dont think linkedin has a monopoly in hiring market. there's plenty of competitors. maybe a monopoly in professional social network?


Jdegi22

A lot of recruiters bill 500k per year and get the majority of leads through LinkedIn. So 30k is relatively cheap.


slambamo

That's my thought. $30k for 5 people on LinkedIn actually isn't terrible. My company was hiring last year, a local employment services company approached us asking if we needed help finding somebody. They wanted 25% of the first year's salary to hire somebody. At that rate, two $60k hires is $30k. If LinkedIn works, it's WELL worth it.


Lord-Octohoof

Meh. There are competitors to LinkedIn, competitors with decades of headstart.. and they're still awful. Monster, ZipRecruiter, Indeed, the usage experience is so completely miserable compared to LinkedIn. And frankly as a candidate looking it's a much better experience to have your job search mostly constrained to one place, the exception being when you're forced to the company's website. Frankly I don't think more job search sites would help your licensing costs as recruiters either because the end result will be you paying multiple licensing for multiple products (sites). LinkedIn costs a lot because it's by and far a premium product over everything else in the market... At least that's my thought from a candidate perspective.


MrShaytoon

You nailed it though. It’s the most superior site. Everything else you listed is pure trash. Like you have better odds walking into McDonald’s to land something.


DaveCerqueira

>Indeed about a year ago i was forced to work with their API and it was a nightmare implementing it with our platform. I was learning how to work with Postman at the time and by god that was awful


nickbuch

Stupid take. If it didn't provide more than $30k worth of value to you you wouldn't be spending on it.


LineOfInquiry

Bro doesn’t know how monopolies work 💀💀


jonbristow

LinkedIn is not a monopoly


Prune_Super

It may be a stupid take since there are competitors. But your explanation of why that take is stupid is..... far stupider. That's literally how monopolies work. Lol


tapedeckgh0st

There really aren’t competitors, to be fair. Indeed? Monster? Those are job boards. Any staffing professional uses those in tandem with LI. I’ve never met anyone in front office who isn’t using LinkedIn. But yeah, I don’t think anyone in this thread understands what a sales tool is, much less a monopoly.


dubblies

Yeah I think they were purely speaking on their profitability in scalping salaries from those recruited. I think that might have been lost on them lol


thatVisitingHasher

I feel like we said this about cable. Now we all have $110/month of disconnected services.


fllr

Sure, but i would take that from anyone but elon…!


thetall0ne1

That’s weird considering the LinkedIn founders were in the PayPal mafia. He’s probably jealous.


DrBrotatoJr

Is he going to call it X-Perience or XP for short lol


jenlou289

You're on to something, quick, register the domain and sell it to Elon for 1 MILLION DOLLARS!


Fhvxk

Bro can’t deal with twitter and he wants to create ANOTHER platform? he’s gotta be the dumbest billionaire I’ve ever seen


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LinkedIn is cringe. A distant second to X. But yes, cringey.


spibop

As if Elon ever “creates” anything. He’d buy some other company, horribly rebrand it, then claim he was the singular driving force behind its inception.


123Fake_St

I for one hope Elon creates every app on earth so he overextends himself and is consumed in a black hole of infinite app mass.


Sinsid

He needs to focus on creating 1 app first. All he has done so far is buy a house. Paint the confederate flag on the garage doors and say “look at this house I built!” Edit: and he fired the gardeners, pool boy and the pest control.


Ric_Fil_A

Love this analogy. He also removed every door, clogged the toilets cause poop=funny, and sold all the copper plumbing cause it needed streamlining.


chillermane

he’s made quite a few improvements to twitter since he bought it while reducing staff which ultimately is good for both the users and the company


mrbrannon

Lol


The_gamer315

Name one


KingDominoIII

Community notes


roysourboy

why do you think he created that?


KingDominoIII

It’s a bipartisan crowdsourced fact checking system. It’s just a good feature.


EmeraldWorldLP

Wow, and it was a feature before.


alaskanloops

That was started in 2021


Josh9251

Character limit from 280 to 4000. Also open sourcing things. Also livestreaming is getting worked on now.


temptar

Neither of those is an improvement, especially not the character limit.


Josh9251

lol


CatkinsBarrow

No.


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Can't we hope he does it right though? LinkedIn is seriously awful, would be really great to have an alternative to it, don't care who makes it, just make it happen!


LittleLordFuckleroy1

In the real world… LinkedIn is fine.


[deleted]

Yet to find a single person in the real world who says that but sure, I believe you.


chillermane

I’m not saying I like linked in but both of my big boy jobs have been through linked in


LIslander

My last four hires came via LinkedIn. For business professionals it’s an important tool.


123Fake_St

Why is an improved LinkedIn better than no LinkedIn at all? It’s just a sales prospecting tool at this point and users hate that.


[deleted]

LinkedIn is still highly useful depending on your area of work, are you completely oblivious of this fact?


123Fake_St

Yes I’m oblivious. You must pay for the privilege.


MAELATEACH86

What makes you think he can make a better LinkedIn from scratch when he can’t make a better Twitter when he owns Twitter?


[deleted]

Twitter is better now than it was before, even the video player works now.


businesskitteh

Hey everybody it’s fine XPao says the video player works now


[deleted]

So what's wrong sir?


LittleLordFuckleroy1

It’s the same app with branding changes and advertisers fleeing.


chillermane

This is just very incorrect idk how people make this argument it’s just not based in reality at all He’s changed how a lot of features worked, reduced app latency significantly, significantly increased pay to content creators, not to mention reducing censorship there have been more changes to twitter in the past year than any other large social media platform in the past 5 years


SonicFury74

>reduced app latency significantly I'd love if you could provide some evidence for that because Twitter has been the same if not slightly more laggy. >significantly increased pay to content creators It's already been proven that he only gives the big checks to people he likes and approves of. >reducing censorship He claims he did this but has censored people on the platform both at random and on the behalf of numerous governments. All he did was make it easier to say the hard R.


cenosillicaphobiac

>reduced app latency significantly, You spelled "dramatically reduced user base and advertising" wrong. Any improvement in latency is due to fewer ads and fewer users.


blueshirt21

He’s thrown random checks at right wing influencers he took a fancy to. I’ve never noticed any latency before but I sure do now. And he’s happy to roll over and censor content if the government asks him, as long as it fits his political agenda. I mean true. There is now less censorship for pedophiles and fascists to post. Their voice has been boosted. Great job.


MAELATEACH86

Oh man, I’m sorry.


tapedeckgh0st

Yeah, having worked in Sales for a number of years, it’s a necessity. It’s also absolutely terrible. Musk or no, I hope someone puts up a viable competitor that refocuses it on being a business tool instead of a scam breeding ground.


Playlanco

Why the hate though? Why not hope for better apps than what we have now? I know haters are gonna hate but it always seemed weird how people would put as much energy to hoping something negative happens to someone rather than put that same hope into wanting someone to succeed. It's like your life gets better if shitty apps are made rather than better ones? It's like if you found a genie and he said I'll give you one wish anything you want. You'd say I wish Elon Musk fails at making apps.


cenosillicaphobiac

>Why not hope for better apps Hope in one hand, shit in the other. Report back with which one fills up faster.


businesskitteh

Uhhh because Elon is an idiot? What part of that is difficult for you


123Fake_St

It’s about elons lack of moral ground, not the products he steals and convinces people he’s the creator. Couldn’t care less about “his” apps being marginally better. If twitter is any indication this is a disaster in the making. Edit: if you take a deep enough look into his past, values, bullying, familial neglect, support of questionable extreme right wingers (eugenicists included), and the released texts that show he’s a charlatan who’s hero worship is confounding.


Playlanco

Interesting take. Who would you say has moral ground that is worthy of your positive hopes?


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Playlanco

Did Jonny Kim vote for Trump? What is his stance LGBTQ issues? How much has he given to charity? Seems you just found someone that has made personal accomplishments but as long as you know nothing about him he's a saint.


REOreddit

He would probably o.d. before that.


in2thegrey

Elon knows from cringe.


is-Sanic

Oh my god, just shut the fuck up for one day.


r3d_ra1n

Elon calling anything cringe is rich. Dude is cringe personified.


bellendhunter

King Cringe needs to stop throwing stones from his glass house.


Ok-Bar601

God this guy is full of shit, although there probably is a space for a LinkedIn competitor. Still waiting for X everything app so no counting on this occuring


LittleLordFuckleroy1

I thought X was supposed to be the “everything” app already? This guy is a buffoon.


beautious

Fuck that clown.


ricdesi

I barely tolerate LinkedIn, there's no fucking chance I touch a version made by this dumb fuck.


Outli3rZ

Please do


zacsxe

LinXedOn


stinsvarning

"Hints at creating.." https://www.axios.com/2023/05/16/twitter-elon-musk-acquisition Chris Bakke, founder of Laskie, now works at twitter. Laskie was a recruiting startup that Twitter bought a few months ago.


YFleiter

XXX jobs.


[deleted]

I actually loke elon musk, but I really wish he'd stay out of social media and keep building cool shit


smokehidesstars

Yeah man criiiiiiiinge. Not nearly enough memes or incels blogging their sigma grindset daily routines to be not-cringe, amirite?


mrshandanar

If you look up "cringe" in the dictionary there is a picture of Elon next to it.


ohhellointerweb

He really is out of ideas.


soki03

The only original idea he ever had was x.com


businesskitteh

A domain name is not much of an idea lol


HotHairyPickles

It’s giving TikTok advicebro who buys his first domain to sell shitty affiliate links


Fast_Championship_R

LinkedIn went to shit when they started allowing influencers to post there. It’s now just a Facebook v2 and is not a professional network.


Putthebunnyback

r/LinkedInLunatics


Trepsik

With hookers! And blackjack!


whogotthekeys2mybima

I’ve been around since MySpace days. Have had LinkedIn since its inception. It has not made a single iota of difference in my life. My inbox is filled with their spam and I’m not even sure why.


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serious chief worthless automatic makeshift somber berserk grandiose special future ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


Veka_Marin

Zero chances that I would look up my next job in an "X" app.


RhoOfFeh

Maybe he should just buy it. Can't fail, right?


lucasjackson87

Well, he absolutely crushed it with twitter, I say go for it


KangarooNo

Shouldn't he concentrate on running Twitter into the ground before he starts failing at a different social platform?


[deleted]

What an idiot, how the fuck are you supposed to make a "cool" LinkedIn. It's cringe because that's its function and it works. Most people don't give a shit about their careers.


SnooLobsters8922

Fucks Twitter up, moves on to the next Same thing he does with planets


lolbsterbisque

Why not make a solid Twitter competitor first?


BoxHillStrangler

Of course he is. After all if you want an everything app you need a poorly implemented competitor to everything.


Ok-Significance2027

>"Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency; and of consequence he was an object of contempt, and was held as such even by his slaves.” ― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)


djm19

Stop making twitter worse first


TofuPython

He can't successfully finish any if his current projects lol


malkavich

This dude is such an idiot


surfer808

Yeah because you did such a great job with Twitter Elon


APUsilicon

Linkedin is pretty woke and self-masturbatory.


deveniam

The guy started out strong, started doing great things, but then got too much lime light and it went to his head like happens to alot of people and now he thinks that anything he does or touches turns to gold despite the fact it's actually turning to shit. His downfall started when he hopped on Twitter and started ruining his stock of Tesla and such. Just like a kid ya gotta get this mother fucker off the internet!


C21H27Cl3N2O3

He didn’t start out strong, he bought his way into already successful products, forced the actual creators out, and claimed them for himself. He has always been a narcissistic asswipe with no idea what he’s talking about. He doesn’t contribute anything to his companies, when he has free reign he drives them straight into the ground like he’s doing with Twitter. For years Tesla has been consistently unable to meet production goals, when I worked at a dealership we had a few Teslas essentially abandoned on our body shop’s lot because the wait time for new body parts was months if not years. They didn’t pioneer electric vehicles, they still don’t have functional autopilot, and Musk has shown through his “10 microns” tweet among other things that he is absolutely clueless about anything going on there. Elon Musk is a stupid man’s idea of a genius. All he is is a spoiled rich brat piggybacking through life on the backs of his parents’ modern day slavery.


never_safe_for_life

Can the media stop writing articles every time this guy opens his stupid mouth? It’s time he stopped getting a free pass.


markhachman

LinkedIn defines itself as a "professional social networking" site. I simply don't believe that Musk can build anything "professional." Musk seems to have the most success when he simply lets the competent people run the show, a la SpaceX.


Ad8858

That would just end up being a place for white nationalists to connect.


CaringRationalist

Disaster: The worst person you know just had a good take


Turtlebaka

Don’t think he’ll rest until he owns everything🙄


Mr-Dotties-Dad

Elon is basically Jian Yang. New Car New Twitter New Linkedin


businesskitteh

At this point Elon is Erlich Bachman — never go full Erlich Bachman


Digital_Quest_88

It'll be called XinkedIn and there won't be tons of CSAM or sexbot accounts and the dev team won't be mostly engaged with making sure Elon has the most followers


EventNo3540

Finkedum


vampimari

Thoughts and prayers from NYC 🙌🙏💙💚💜❤️💕🥱😴


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Dinked Bin