Before you start throwing 💩 , hear me out…

I’m a huge fan of the fediverse…it’s returning to the original design of the Internet…where everyone can communicate freely and openly and corporations have a very difficult time pulling anything creepy that LinkedIn/Twitter (yes, I’ll still call it Twitter)/Facebook does.

But I sense a huge frustration with businesses that want to network with others but feel their hands are tied by these walled gardens.

I figure, why not make the fediverse business friendly?

Right now most people on Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. seem to be more of the anarchist/weekend hacker types. So part of my concern with this is that it would taint the fediverse with a bunch of spam. But by the same token it would also help grow the job market and provide opportunities for people that they may not have had on LinkedIn. Of course, I’d stress for anyone on the site to operate in a community-first mindset.

So, some question…

  1. Would this type of instance be met with disgust? I mean, obviously the great thing about the fediverse is that you can block servers you don’t want on the network, but having the instance blocked would kind of defeat the purpose. 😅

  2. If you’re excited by the idea, what things would you like to see? In my own armchair brainstorming, I thought joint accounts would be a good idea, as well as analytics.

  3. Suggestion for already-existing platform? Can’t find a good one that would be ready-to-go to build off of. There’s friendica, but I’m not much of a fan of PHP, and it seems to not have great adoption, either.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    Why would I pay for something I don’t even want to use for free?

    I really don’t feel that the Fediverse needs to be business friendly. They tend to ruin everything they touch.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I see an alignment-problem:

    IF it is paid by the job-seekers, who may be destitute, THEN the rich job-seekers distort the market in their favor.

    ELSIF it is paid by the job-posters, who definitely intend to underpay all whom they hire, then it has motivation to help misrepresent things.

    Enshittification is inevitable, either-way.

    I hold that the Fediverse NEEDS a LinkedIn replacement, the problem is that a healthy such replacement is in the Public interest, & therefore the Public ought be paying for it.

    Which will never happen, in the lobbied-puppets “electorate” world.

    It isn’t even a political question, left or right, it is a market-integrity question.

    The greater the integrity of the employment-market, the stronger the country, obviously.

    Therefore removing the job-board/job-market from ALL special-interest-groups/torquers/machiavellians can significantly benefit the country(ies) who impliment correctly, in the long-term/strategic scope.

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    • PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Job-seeker/employer is only a drop in the ocean of what professional networking (and LinkedIn) is about. It’s a community of businesses that all help each other collaborate and build…a way to share ideas and make new connections…at least, I think that’s what everyone wants it to be.

  • Mars2k21@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I don’t personally use Linkedin so I can’t really comment on how a federated alternative would work or be useful for professionals and networking.

    What I will say is that paid/business-related and the general fediverse culture/design seems like oil and water. Especially the paid part. It simply won’t take off unless there is a mass exodus of people from Linkedin (very unlikely). And even then, having multiple instances for something as focused on Linkedin doesn’t seem viable. It’s probably better off centralized and disconnected from a large network like the Fediverse, in my opinion.

    The closest the fediverse can get to this is professionals using Mastodon or something in the same way they used Twitter before it imploded. Interesting idea though.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    LinkedIn is a burning dumpster fire, where the dumpster is intentionally designed to be anti-user, and the fire is kindled by narcissists and predators.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking about creating a federated LinkedIn but still haven’t totally nailed the concept, as it goes far beyond just posting content. But no, I doubt you could convince anyone to pay for it.

    My main frustration right now is that with the downfall of twitter, LinkedIn became the defacto business contact that people exchange at conferences and meetups. What I’d love to have is an alternative to that for starters.

    If you’re serious about that, I would love to have a chat.