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title: "LinkedIn: chronological view"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2025/02/linkedin-chronological-view/
last_updated: 2026-02-08
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[How to Replace Linkedin's Algorithmic Timeline](https://preslav.me/2025/01/28/howto-replace-linkedin-algorithmic-timeline/) by Preslav Rachev:

> Here is a quick tip on bringing back your sanity when using LinkedIn. Whether
> you are familiar with algorithmic timelines work or not, it has certainly come
> to your attention that your home feed page is not chronologically organized.
> Instead, you see posts from people and organizations that LinkedIn's
> content-matching algorithms thought you might be interested in. Those are so
> good that you'd often catch yourself scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling,
> often, forgetting why you were there in the first place. Not only that but
> even if you found something actually worth your attention, LinkedIn will
> likely rearrange your feed completely the next time you open the page.

> This is a phenomenon called doomscrolling and is something that most social
> media applications make good use of. However, LinkedIn has turned that into
> perfection. The goal is no longer to deliver valuable updates from your
> professional contacts (which was its original purpose), but just to keep you
> engaged and coming back for more.

It turns out it's possible to set the preferred feed / timeline view to "Most
recent", instead of the default "Most relevant posts (Recommended)". Change the
setting
[in your LinkedIn preferences](https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/preferred-view). The
link works at the time of the publication of this post.

A bit of fresh air, and less
[enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification), I would say.

I don't use LinkedIn often. Especially for news, I don't think it's a good place
to become informed...however, while we're here, if you work in Tech, feel free
to connect with me (my profile is LinkedIn[^1] the footer of this site). A cool
"trick" I learned from a speaker at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/): if you write
an avocado emoji in your intro message then I'll (very likely) instantly accept
you the next time I log in (which is not often).

[^1]: Could not resist the pun.