LinkedIn Tests Network Tab for More Personal Feeds – WeRSM

LinkedIn is testing a new Network tab that would give users a feed made up of people they explicitly follow or are connected to. The trial offers a more direct alternative to LinkedIn’s main feed, where algorithmic recommendations and suggested conversations increasingly shape what appears. The test was reported by LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan describing the tab as a way to help users stay connected to their network. The wording matters. LinkedIn is not presenting this as another discovery surface. It is positioning the feature around people users already know. LinkedIn wants the feed to feel less manufactured The Network tab arrives as LinkedIn faces a familiar platform problem: engagement can be abundant while the experience still feels strangely impersonal. Engagement pods have been used to inflate post performance, while AI-generated content is making professional feeds harder to trust and easier to flood. A feed limited to direct connections and follows does not solve either problem by itself. People in a user’s network can still post repetitive, promotional, or machine-generated content. But the tab gives LinkedIn a cleaner way to separate relationship-driven updates from the wider recommendation system. That distinction could matter for users who want to see what colleagues
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