Comment on How would fedi fans feel about a paid LinkedIn alternative on the fediverse?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
I’m honestly looking at your idea, and really I am.
I think you’re trying to solve spam by making it a paid service, but paid and walled gardens go directly against the fediverse, whose protocol can be read and submitted to by anyone. So it’s either a paid walled garden, in which case it’s LinkedIn, or it’s open.
Instead, I’d say that you’re going for a verification system, to say I am this person and I am willing to prove it is. I think this could be done, and your platform would only care about others who are verified. Spammers aren’t willing to prove who they are, and for most of the fediverse I could see them going against something like a verification system. However on a platform like linked in that’s different, you could have a verification system and it’d be to its benefit.
My 2 cents at least
PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nope, no verification system…complete opposite…you’d just need to pay an I don’t care who you are (I’d even take crypto like Monero). I think being on week 4 of wrestling with LinkedIn’s verification system (being in LI jail for the 3rd time!) has made me sick of it.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
Oh, then no. As someone who heavily uses LinkedIn for my professional life and the fediverse for my personal, I would not use it. Fediverse is great for my personal life, LinkedIn is free and already used abundently. It’s how I’ve gotten my last several jobs. I would see no benefit in paying for a smaller less used service.
I think most people would agree with me, why pay for something that would have less recruiters and less benefit than using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a sell out’s game, sure, but I’m not exactly going there because I want to give out crunchy granola vibes either.
PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah, I see. Yeah, I keep forgetting that a lot of people use LinkedIn for job-searching (I mean, I kinda do too, but been active on it like 7 years without a single follow-through). I see it as a networking tool. Job-searching may be part of it, but business leaders and ultra wealthy use it to make connections and support each other (theoretically). Businesses/creators would be the target market. Maybe some job-search aspect to it at some point.