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I hear you, but leave to where? Are we being expelled from society for not accepting this bullyish control.
And we are leaving behind the masses, the society that cannot find alternatives and will continue there and give them their information, if just 50% of the people do that, it is a huge success for them.
We have to think how to reclaim these spaces, otherwise we are going to lose
Maybe better than reclamation is to make our own federated version. Like we're on lemmy because we decided not to take bullyish behavior from Reddit
TBH I feel that is a really important point.
OK, fine, Linkedin, most ppl can just leave it. We managed before it existed, we'll manage without it. But your point is bigger than Linkedin. It's like a cancer. It spreads everywhere. It comes for things we all want or need to do. For the basic elements of living in the modern world.
I feel your pain man. But IDK what to do. Except keep fighting the good fight. It feels like trying to hold back the tide.
I don't think it's possible to reclaim LinkedIn. It's not exactly a democratic platform and I doubt user outrage will change anything unless their user attrition rate goes through the roof. They can just tweak their algorithms, mute or limit the reach of users to hide discontent from others too. Better to just leave and try to get #fedihired instead.
this spaces should be public, with twitter also, it is like making the village square private.
a public linkedin should be next, same as a public twitter, in the direction of Mastodon, but it needs to increase in legitimacy
While I understand your point, before I left LinkedIn I spent several years looking for work, nothing changed after leaving, other than not having to deal with the "offers" from "agents" who didn't reply, let alone look at my experience before making a stupid "job offer" in exchange for my contacts.
Leaving LinkedIn increased my quality of life significantly, even though I'm still looking for work.