@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 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.
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.
@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:
@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.
@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.
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