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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.

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bob@beamship.mpaq.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@jol @PlanetOfOrd
I knew it wouldn't be long before someone started looking into a LinkedIn type ActivityPub 😂
Not thrilled about it being a "paid" service though. I've not been on here for a year yet but this is the first I've heard of anyone wanting to do a paid for ActivityPub....
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- jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think the main challenge of the fediverse will be cost. The bigger the network becomes, the more data each instance will have to handle, because each instance will have to communicate with more instances and copy data from them. The average person without disposable income will probably not afford to run their own instance at some point. So unless we figure out monetization, the future of the fediverse at scale is at risk.
  
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- PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Years ago I think I would have been in the same boat about not being a fan of something like this being paid, but I think the main reason why big tech platforms have become enshittified is because we haven’t demanded value and instead demanded free. And because we’ve demanded free we have two camps: big tech that can yank our chain, and free/libre solutions that may survive just barely on donations and the good will of people (and wanting it to be free as in $ IMO is devaluing the importance of the fediverse). I think a good solution to promote software freedom and the fediverse is for some paid instances to be part of it.
  
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