LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced a trial of a Network tab that shows content only from people and pages you have explicitly connected with or follow, sitting alongside the main feed; Social Media Today reported it on September 20, 2026.
2026-09-21 · by Moe Ameen
LinkedIn is trialing a Network tab, an alternative feed made up entirely of content from the people and pages you have explicitly connected with or followed. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced the test, and Social Media Today reported it on September 20, 2026. In Srinivasan's words, "The Network tab helps you stay connected to your network, ie the people you have explicitly connected or followed," adding: "We all want more real connection with real people, and we hope this plays a small part in rebuilding that world."
The tab is positioned as an option alongside the main feed, not a replacement for it. Where the default feed is algorithmically ranked and pulls in out-of-network content LinkedIn thinks you will engage with, the Network tab narrows the view to your first-degree connections and the accounts you follow. It is a direct response to two problems LinkedIn has spent 2026 fighting: engagement pods that inflate post metrics through coordinated liking and commenting, and AI-generated "slop" crowding feeds — the same backlash behind LinkedIn's "Seems like AI slop" report button and its inauthentic-activity enforcement.
This is LinkedIn's latest run at an alternative feed rather than a first attempt. The platform has tested connections-only feeds before, and trialed topic-based suggested feeds in June 2026 to surface trending conversations; neither of those graduated to a broad launch. LinkedIn did not publish a timeline, rollout scope, or duration for the Network tab test, so treat availability and the exact behavior as an early snapshot — a signal about where LinkedIn wants engagement to move, not a shipped feature to plan around yet.
A connections-only feed rewards one thing above all: consistent, human-sounding presence in front of the people who already follow you. That is a volume-and-voice problem, and it is exactly what [Kompozy](/) is built to solve — without tripping the AI-slop enforcement LinkedIn is running the Network tab to escape.
Point Kompozy at one source — a talk, a client story, a long post that landed — and a [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) locks your voice, phrasing, and banned words so every output reads like you, not a bot. From that one input it generates a full week for LinkedIn: text posts, document-style [Carousel Posts](/glossary/hyperframes), captioned [Persona Shorts](/glossary/persona-shorts) fronted by a consistent face, and [Clipped Shorts](/glossary/clipped-short) cut from long-form video — the formats that keep you showing up in a network feed. [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) then schedules and publishes on a steady cadence across the eight social platforms plus blog and email, and every piece clears a per-post review gate before it goes out. The Network tab is LinkedIn asking who actually shows up for their network; Kompozy is how you answer yes on LinkedIn and everywhere else, at a frequency and quality no manual posting habit can hold.
It is an alternative feed LinkedIn is testing that shows content only from your first-degree connections and the people and pages you follow, instead of the algorithmic main feed. LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced the trial, and it was reported on September 20, 2026.
No. It is positioned as an option alongside the main feed, not a replacement. The default feed remains algorithmically ranked and can surface out-of-network content, while the Network tab narrows the view to accounts you have explicitly connected with or followed.
To push back on engagement pods that inflate post metrics and on AI-generated "slop" filling feeds. It is part of LinkedIn's broader 2026 effort to rebuild "real connection with real people," alongside its "Seems like AI slop" report button and inauthentic-activity enforcement.
By posting consistently and sounding genuinely human, since a network feed rewards regular presence over out-of-network virality. A tool like Kompozy generates on-brand posts, carousels, and shorts from one source and publishes them across LinkedIn plus the other social platforms, blog, and email on a steady cadence.