• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    I had exactly this thought just over a month ago. After mulling it over for a few days, I decided that the only reasonable way to build it would be on top of Scuttlebutt. Alice shares her CV, makes it available via a pub, Bob shares a job description at the same pub, and the two can connect through there, etc.

    The advantage of SSB is the absence of the need for an always-on, big data cloud service. The project instead is managed by a swarm of phones all connecting intermittently. It’s very solarpunk.

    The big problem for me was the multiple device question. If Alice wants to interact with “FreeLinkedIn” both on her phone and her laptop sporadically over many days, you still need a cloud device to hold state, negating all the benefits granted from SSB. I couldn’t figure a way around this, and then got distracted.

  • Moltz@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    You’ll never get the recruiters to participate, because their companies will never let them. LinkedIn is corpo hive-mind central, friendly to corpos first and foremost. What you’re proposing wouldn’t be friendly to corpos, inherently, so they’ll never join, and they hold the strings because they are the ones with jobs to offer.

    You’re literally asking how to take the corporatism out of LinkedIn when that is precisely what allows it to exist. Why would any company participate on a platform that gives workers the advantage? Hint, they won’t.

  • atmorous@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    There is Vutuv (But it lacks a lot of what LinkedIn has) and was discontinued a couple years ago

    However, a person on Reddit is making a LinkedIn alternative

    Contact them to keep up with their development

    If I can refind the thread I’ll share it with ya