Mastodawn

A quick note on Nolto.
On 15 March 2026 its creator Jonathan Tensetti intentionally closed the service and deleted his Fediverse account.
What he built - Europe’s second decentralised LinkedIn alternative on ActivityPub - was gloriously vibecoded but effective. It showed, with hard data and testimonials, that the demand for a sovereignty-respecting professional platform is real.
I had been working in parallel: detailed research on technical choices, product mechanics, business-model viability under distributed/FOSS conditions, and how to test everything in practice for such a product. Nothing yolo — but nothing yet proven in production either. Jonathan precluded me by just yolo'ing the Nolto MVP. Thanks for that.
To move from proven demand to a solid, maintainable product I need proper capital, runway and possibly 1-2 additional people.
I'm looking for European-aligned funding - preferably from Germany, Poland or Denmark - networks that value independence and data protection without the usual bureaucratic overhead.
If you know the right people in those circles, please connect me with them before the current momentum fades.
Serious replies and boosts appreciated.

#Nolto #noltosocial #ActivityPub #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #linkedin #opensource #foss #networking

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chris Feb 27

@stvfrnzl
The source code of nolto will remain available for anyone who wants to explore it, improve it, fork it or continue the idea.
https://codeberg.org/Tensetti/Nolto
#noltosocial #opensource #socialnetworks

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Spar|fin|dig :: Jan Feb 18

@egovpod Ein erster Versuch scheint https://www.nolto.social gewesen zu sein, da hatte ich mich kurz angemeldet. War ganz interessant, auch dank der Möglichkeit, Daten von LinkedIn zu importieren. Hier wurde aber auch Kritik laut und mittlerweile ist das Ein-Personen-Projekt bereits wieder beendet (s. Screenshot).

#linkedin #nolto #noltosocial

scheme Feb 10

Something about a picture and a thousand words.

#VibeCoding #AISlop #slop #Nolto #NoltoSocial

Rimu Feb 2

nolto.social is vibe coded.

In their documentation at https://github.com/Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus/blob/main/README.md the first thing it says is "Built with ❤️ on Lovable.dev" https://lovable.dev/ a vibe coding service. Followed by extensive emoji use.

You can see in their git commits, the author is nearly always "lovable-dev[bot]" https://github.com/Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus/commits/main/

Also on their LLM-written home page they claim to federate with everything, which is impossible. Believe me, I have tried.

#nolto #noltosocial

fediverse-career-nexus/README.md at main · Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus

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Ulrik Nyman ⬡Feb 2

Hi All.

I have just created a profile on Nolto.social

This is a federated possible replacement for #linkedin

https://nolto.social/join/9F3UBW

#nolto
#noltosocial

PhilVia #JoinMastodon.org ⁂Feb 1

❌ LinkedIn
✅ NOLTO : https://nolto.social

#Nolto #NoltoSocial #LinkedIn #LinkedInExit

Big Belgian Bopper 🔻🐸Jan 27

Just found out about https://nolto.social, a privacy friendly #LinkedIn alternative. Small now indeed but let's make it grow! If you are on #LinkedIn, tell all the headhunters that you also live on #noltosocial.