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LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can't stand in for me). The stated reason: "unusual activity." The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.

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[–] JohnHammerSky@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But then what's the solution? How do you find jobs without LinkedIn? The corporation hell prefers "efficiency", they'll always prefer these centralized solutions to find workers.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no evidence that LinkedIn provides work, I attempted to use it for several years to find work and was entirely unsuccessful.

Among the quagmire I left, all I saw was Assumed Intelligence slop and bots attempting to harvest contacts.

There was a time when LinkedIn was useful as a tool to grow and interact with your network, these days it's Xitter with more characters.

[–] JohnHammerSky@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found my job at LinkedIn. And a few interviews as well. I'm not working now, but in the past I found it there.

It's unbearable for sure, but I don't see any other option.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

All the same jobs get posted on the various job boards like indeed, dice, career builder, etc