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.

  • HandlesEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Of all the social networks out there, I think there is a reason that nobody else has tried to replicate LinkedIn in the Fediverse yet. It’s just not a very attractive idea in the first place.

    The only value I see in that pkatform is as a professional network where users can present their work profile separately from, I dunno, their interesting life stuff? I’m not sure because I haven’t used LinkedIn since Microsoft bought it. Even then it was the kind of tedious who-works-where-now oneupmanship that got old real quick.

    I don’t see actual platforms in that vein working in the Fediverse where people can just make alt accounts — on special interest instances that cater to their specific line of work, if such exist. The corporate soul crunching of potential employers monitoring your LinkedIn account for signs of unemployability is just not something you want to carry over anywhere.