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It HAD a professional edge? Okay, good to know. Maybe that's an american thing. And screw blowsky. It's the same shit, just a different asshole. I wouldn't trust this federation per se. They will manage to enshittify it sooner or later.
The study is tracking scientists leaving the platform.
There still are good news in this world 😊
My first thought was that you can’t lose something you never had, but the article doesn’t fit that idea. Apparently, some people once used it for tasks related to their profession. I guess that kind of use can give it a professional aura of sorts. Obviously, the rest of it is just one huge toxic dumpster fire, but some people are really trying to use it for something better.
Professionals don’t really get to choose their platform. They just use whatever happens to be the one that gets the job done of reaching the right people. If xitter no longer fits the description, professionals switch to the next thing.
Sure, there are circumstances that might totally force you onto those shitty platforms. But I would really hate it and try to prevent it as long as I could.
Guess when I would have to look for a job, I'd be screwed nowadays with LinkedIn. Which is even worse cancer....
I think the best thing about LI is the easy apply feature. It’s genuinely useful to standardize and streamline the application process. When every company has their own system, it adds such a threshold to applying that you don’t even want to go through all that trouble just to roll the dice and get rejected. It adds so much friction that it hurts both parties. Easy apply fixes that IMO.
The rest isn’t that useful, and some of it we could do without. Like those lions and motivational aphorism posts that fall apart if you think about them more than 3 seconds.
I'd be more concerned about the privacy. Applying to a company is one - possibly unavoidable - thing, but offering my vita, picture and all to a murican company on top? Nope. I'd rather create a tiktok-account tbh. Especially when I'm not murican myself, otherwise it Wouldn't matter much anyway.
The easy application might sound tempting to ease an already horrible system. But “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” ...and will loose both in the end.
Considering how I always put up jobs and my decision-process to choose the people (screw CVs and pictures), I feel very anachronistic now.
Oh, absolutely. The privacy aspect of this situation is just insane. Publishing your face and thoughts on Facebook was pretty messed up, and doing the same thing for career purposes isn’t any better.
The only reason why I made a LI account was basically the same reason why companies started making websites in the late 90s. If you don’t have a website, your company doesn’t exist, and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to doing business. If you don’t have a LI profile, you don’t exist and that’s just an unnecessary barrier to getting employed. The unfortunate realities of our world today...
And that’s not even the only disgustingly broken system we tolerate these days. Academic publishing, advertising, social media visibility, just to name a few. How did we end up with a mess like this.
Absolutly, bsky will beckmessert the new Twitter. With all the shit, but perhaps better covering the shut/censorship/bias pushing.
It’s just the 458 wave of people leaving Twitter. And some naive part within myself hooded, it’s the final.
And then there's me who never ever had an account there and surely will not at blowsky :-)
I only got an account because Friendica can connect to it this way. Otherwise, no need for another corporate silo, but with federation as a buzzword slapped to it.
Yup. And I'm kinda curious how they'll manage to put a bad label on "federation" in the end. How exactly they'll fuck shit up. For users, not them of course.