That’s a tall order and almost paradoxical in nature by default. I’m quite confident hosting your own portfolio on your own website is the closest we’ll get to this.
Have you already looked at Gitlab, codeberg, gitea or forgejo?
This is the way. I plan on creating a website to host my portfolio to potential employers. That’s a lot better than having a LinkedIn page.
Is-a.dev was a thing once too I think
It Still is: https://github.com/is-a-dev/register
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.
Decentralized doesn’t mean cloud. You can have an instance in a computer you own that it’s always on.
No, I was wanting to go the step further and target “offline first” to avoid the need for too many “always on” services. From a philosophical perspective, I think our internet should be able to function without the resources required to run something 24hrs/day.
You can absolutely build a LinkedIn clone on top of something like ActivityPub for example, but I’m not sure how one might do that from an “offline first” perspective though.
Does it need to be a new piece of software though?
I’m thinking it might be a lot easier to put some effort building a professional community on Mastodon (maybe on it’s own instance) than building it from scratch as a new platform.
Networking.
OK you networked and met 10 people. How do you keep in touch? Right now that happens with LinkedIn. You don’t give your personal phone number to random strangers at a tech conference.
Of course not the personal number, but my business number. And then I call people I want to stay in touch with. No LinkedIn needed.
But that’s one way it used to be, making connections that requires effort to engage with (calling, emailing, etc). If you want to give up the convenience of any particular online social network you have to do the work to foster those relationships differently.
Give your email out to people. Ask for theirs. Send the emails. Call them if they give you their number.
There might be, but the fact that you don’t know it illustrates the problem: market share and popularity.
Friendica? Linkedin is the same format as Facebook, just with a different theme.
Socialhome!
Xing is at least not owned by MAAM
