cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49832828

There are three potential reasons for members of this forum to have a look at https://vutuv.de/

You are tired or annoyed of LinkedIn.
You are searching for a job or a candidate.
You are technically curious and want to have a look at the inner workings of such a project. We use everything Phoenix Framework has to offer and connect to the Fediverse.

vutuv compared to LinkedIn is not closed gated and it is free for everybody. You can read every posting and visit any profile without having to register first. Have a look at my profile at https://vutuv.de/wintermeyer

All the data is hosted on our servers in Germany. Nothing is send to the cloud. No third party cookies.

Please give it a try and please do give me feedback. Here or if you find a bug or want to post a feature request in our GitHub repo. Thanks!

^quote from developer about vutuv https://elixirforum.com/t/vutuv-de-an-open-source-linkedin-alternative-built-in-phoenix/76166/

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    8 hours ago

    I have only received jobs for the last 10 years via social features. I hate it, I don’t enjoy it, but networking and people skills are the way to a good network. I started blogging and recruiters started pinging me regularly. It has a place

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      7 hours ago

      Thats great, you can network and have people skills on social media and link from there to your professional bio. There’s no reason for them to be in the same place.

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        6 hours ago

        Except, I don’t want those people in my regular circles on my regular accounts, I keep work and personal separate. I’d prefer to have a separate account, just like this that’s linked to my professional life. This fills that need for me

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          So create a separate account. There’s no reason it needs to be on a dedicated platform.

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            So you want to separate things so they’re all in their own little spheres… so that there’s less dedicated services?

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            Where would I put my CV and professional details, my skills and abilities? I don’t know man, I see some real value here, what’s the harm of it?

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              Where would I put my CV and professional details, my skills and abilities?

              On a separate, professional site.

              what’s the harm of it?

              The harm is filling a professional website with a bunch of noisy nonsense no one cares about. I don’t need to see your federated OnlyFans profile when I’m looking for an employee.

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                Don’t subscribe to users from there then, and even then doesn’t sound like this would be federated?

                On a separate, professional site.

                That’s quite literally what this app appears to be trying to do.

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                  doesn’t sound like this would be federated?

                  Then why is “fediverse” in the title of the post?

                  That’s quite literally what this app appears to be trying to do.

                  Except it’s not, it’s trying to be another social media platform.

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                    Yes? I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make now. CVs, skills, etc sound specific to this so they wouldn’t be federated. Social features like posts, replies, comments would be, as they match ActivityPub, they’re not extending the protocol or anything for it.

                    So I really don’t understand why you’re so upset at the app. If you don’t want the professional stuff then it’s as simple as not signing up for an account. If you don’t want any social things from them then it’s the same as any activitypub: defederate or block.

                    You don’t like it, I think that’s obvious, but I don’t understand the multi-comment thread where your argument seems to be “I don’t like it so it shouldn’t exist”. You don’t have to understand why other people find it useful for it to be useful to those other people.