Is there a Fediverse alternative for LinkedIn?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: Over the past few years, scores of California tech workers have ended up in the exact same position: laid-off, looking for work on LinkedIn and sick of it. LinkedIn, part job site and part social network, has become an all but necessary tool for the o...
** update: please see replies below and judge yourself **
So it seems there is finally a Fediverse alternative to LinkedIn:
Going to explore this and (hopefully) leave my last BigTech connection....
Need to explore first. I am wondering a lot of things as well, but I embrace the initiative!
EDIT: Through some confusing verbiage in Nolto's privacy policy, my original comment on it's origins were inaccurate. I've left them below for posterity, but here's the rectification:
Nolto is developed by @JTensetti using Lovable but it is not a part of or "by" Lovable. It was built as a fun project but has taken off on a life of it's own. It's currently hosted on Supabase but I understand this might change in the future as this project gets more popular. Looking forward to seeing this flourish!
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@voorstad It uses AWS and Cloudflare. The company behind it is Lovable Labs, founded in Sweden but incorporated in Delaware with some hefty US venturecapital behind it, with links to Google. They're self styled as a "vibe coding platform".
To use one of my favorite dutch phrases; Imma watch the cat out of the tree.
But Open Source and federated, so we *could* fork and create own instances...?
And defederate if needed?
@voorstad I guess the best answer I can give is an uninformed "probably?"
Their repo is up on codeberg; https://codeberg.org/Tensetti/Nolto
But from my uninformed position, it looks super weird. It seems untouched since June 2025 when there were 279 commits by 1 maintainer and what appears to be an AI bot.
There are 30 open issues/feature requests since 10 days ago made by 5 people.
No PR's or discussion or merges, no history where things came from other than what I can now only assume to be a vibecode platform.
The issues are wild. There's a moderation button that everyone can see regardless of your status as a moderator or not, but the button doesn't actually do anything. siteverification doesn't seem to work, you can't reset your password.
The feature requests are wilder: It's not so bad that site verification doesn't work, you can't register yourself as a business anyway.
@voorstad So yeah, we could fork and build on, but we'd essentially be asking people to create their own LinkedIn based on this vibecoded ActivityPub template as many expected features aren't there.
It *looks* like it could potentially be a fedi alternative to LinkedIn, but at the moment it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to tell. It looks ike this was perhaps made public a little too early?
It's certainly a cool project, but it'll need a ton of work to be considered a viable alternative.
@voorstad well, at least having a federated business networking alternative will - however bad it might be - set an example.
It's at least something to either work on and improve, or do something else with a better foundation.
But at least it helps to focus attention. And yes, being open and federated, competing movements may take off and eventually improve the whole ecosystem.
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