Anthony AcciolyHi folks, is there a LinkedIn equivalent on the Fediverse? Or is anyone working on creating one?
My professional posts don't quite fit the tone and microblogging style of Mastodon, and they’re not really suited to long-form blogging either. It would also be great to have an ActivityPub job board.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
I have been slowly working on one — see the #ProToGo hash-tag.
But, @atomicpoet also mentioned to me before that someone else is working on a LinkedIn alternative, too.
@atomicpoet, thanks! I'll keep an eye on both efforts for sure!
ElischevaNot direct a one on one Alternative, but several Hashtags. #jobs #FediHire #fedijobs and acording to your professional subject. You can create a group with (yoursubject)@a.gup.pe
Networking of all Kinds is more informal here. Which Fedi-Plattform is best for you, it depends on the amount of Text, you want to write. Maybe Friendica (closer to Facebook), Pleroma or Sharkey are better suited for you. For more graphical content, Pixelfed is best.
@Elischeva91, thanks for the hints! Yeah, I should explore Guppe. Just to clarify my take: it’s not that I don’t love the content here, there are plenty of my favourite people in groups like @javabubble. I’ve also experimented with Friendica, Misskey forks, Micro.blog etc. But I miss something more work oriented that might appeal to tech authors and consultants who aren't on Fedi. Also, I’d like to import almost two decades of my own content. Hopefully to a separate account 😅.
Maybe another Idea: Wordpress has an Activitypub Plugin. So if you have a Wordpress Blog already, just add the plugin. So you publish on a Wordpress Blog, Who connects to the Fedi.
volkris@anthony instances like qoto forego idiocy of microblogging.
Just pick an instance without the constraints of character limits.
Grow Fediverse@anthony Some social media trivia that might be interesting or helpful for those who are working on a replacement Linked-In . . . Linked-In began its life long ago as a social media network called “SixDegrees”, which wasn’t about jobs or career at all. It only focused on helping users visualize who they were distantly friends with, after the “everyone is 6 degrees away from Kevin Bacon” saying. The “degrees” that you see in a Linked-In connection are the last visible remnant of the original site’s UX. Back then it focused primarily on chatrooms, profiles, and visualizing connections between profiles. It shuttered and then reincarnated into the Linked-In we know today.
Open Risk@anthony technically there isnt much of a difficulty, its probably for cultural reasons that in the fediverse nothing exists along these lines. Linkedin embodies conformity, corporate vacuity, self-promotion, commercialism etc.
But its true that the fediverse will not amount to much without inroads into more "normie" populations, oriented towards professionals and helping them escape the big adtech cauldrons.
shellsharks@anthony This was a thing once upon a time - https://github.com/Flockingbird. Seems dead in the water these days...
@shellsharks, will have a look. Thanks!