dahukanna, 10 months ago

@smallcircles

“Don't tie your fate to 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐝𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬.” - ☠️LOL

hemish, 10 months ago

@smallcircles A lot of people got their #LinkedIn accounts locked, including me, recently and now they are asking to upload a government ID to activate it to "verify" that it's me.

smallcircles, 10 months ago

@hemish

Wow 😮 yet one more reason its time for a federated open alternative.

jnv, 10 months ago

@smallcircles Could be the case that most “thought leaders” on LinkedIn are taking a vacation? 🙃
In my opinion LinkedIn's “personalized” feed was always pretty bad, usually recommending 2+ weeks old content like event invitations. Switching to a time-based (“non-personalized“) was a huge improvement for me.

smallcircles, 10 months ago

@jnv yes, interesting. This may be the case.

There was an article years ago with an analysis of the LinkedIn social graph that showed that there really wasn't much going on on the network except for a small number of highly "active nodes" and that the algorithms were specifically tuned to distribute their content as wide as possible to make LI seem interesting and alive.

Most people aren't on LI for the content feed full of platitudes. Their connections are a 'rolodex' of relationships is all.

team, 10 months ago

@smallcircles we stoped news on platforms like xing, linkedin and twitter some time ago - we are in favor of #fediverse :-)

smallcircles, 10 months ago

@team yes. I think it is esp. well-suited right now for the line of work you are in. The better choice, seems to me.

team, 10 months ago

@smallcircles we believe it is a bad deal to make marketing invest dependent on strangers.

eternaltyro, 10 months ago

@smallcircles what is a good alternative to form a decent business network of people that are not personal friends?

smallcircles, 10 months ago

@eternaltyro it is a good question. There's a need for it, and frequent discussion on the #Fediverse by interested people. But these discussions get lost in timeline history immediately.

There used to be #Flockingbird but this project is now archived.

If someone wants to start a project, then collecting a group of those interesting folks should be first, I think.

Places where the idea can be elaborated are on #SocialCoding forum:

https://discuss.coding.social/c/community/ideas/20

And on:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas

eternaltyro, 10 months ago

@smallcircles you know, after seeing the forum, I have an idea myself. To combat the mentality of technological solutionism, we need a digital "ethics and social impact review board". A platform where people go to get their ideas eviscerated by researchers, social science scholars, and humanities scholars.

smallcircles, 10 months ago

@eternaltyro yes, a good idea. I've done a lot of community work in the line of "humane technology" and, while technology may help connect people from across the globe and have them interact in ways that enrich their lives, the technology itself can only ever be supportive.

Approaches to building is should start with uncovering and addressing real Needs, and then keep these into focus as the technology evolves.

A socio-cultural --> socio-technological --> technical drilldown, never tech-first.