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/

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I know we love to hate on LinkedIn, but honestly there are plenty of reasons to want social features about employers and jobs. Reviews, salary discussions, union organization and all such stuff that employees could leverage against employers, for instance.

Of course that's not what LinkedIn is largely used for because it's full of employers trying to brand themselves or influencers trying to make an image for themselves. But it could be different, I think.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    Reviews, salary discussions, union organization and all such stuff that employees could leverage against employers, for instance.

    These are all things that could be designated to one or the other, as appropriate. There's no reason they need to be in the same place and every reason not to.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    Not sure I understand - you think some of those things don't belong on the fediverse? What do you mean "one or the other"?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    1 = social media

    "the other" = Professional business platform

    I think these things should be separate.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like that's an unnecessarily narrow view of what the fediverse can be. The fediverse is not only for any single particular social networking use case, like micro-blogging (Mastodon) or forums (Lemmy, Pyfed etc). It can be much more than that, and all of it at the same time. There's no reason why the fediverse should restrict itself to only certain social media use cases.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    sounds like linkedin x glassdoor, really. except people on glassdoor are assholes too.

    maybe it cancels out.

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