Why LinkedIn feeds feel unusable in 2025 (and what I learned trying to clean mine)

Over the last year, my LinkedIn feed slowly became harder to use.

Not because of a lack of content — but because of too much noise.

I kept seeing:

• “Liked by X” posts from people I don’t follow

• Promoted posts that look like normal content

• Jobs in my home feed (even though there’s a Jobs tab)

• Reshared content with zero context

• Ads disguised as posts

None of this is random. LinkedIn optimizes for engagement, not relevance.
The result is a feed that constantly pulls your attention away from what you actually opened LinkedIn for.

While experimenting with ways to reduce this noise, I learned a few things:

1. Most users don’t realize how much content they’re ignoring
   You scroll past far more posts than you read — but your brain still pays the cost.

2. “Engagement-based” feeds reward interruption
   Posts shown because someone else liked them often have nothing to do with your interests.

3. Manual curation doesn’t scale
   Unfollowing, muting, or clicking “not interested” helps… temporarily.

I’m curious how others experience this.

👉 If you could remove ONE thing from your LinkedIn feed forever, what would it be — and why?

I’d love to learn how different people use LinkedIn (recruiters, founders, sales, devs, etc.) and what actually gets in their way.