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Thank you YouTube algorithm for the timely reminder

https://youtu.be/3i5r5_Pw_sY

#LinkedIn #Job

For some months now I am actively hesitating to publish my work-related stuff on #LinkedIn (or any other centralized social network for that matter) so I am thinking of using the #fediverse for it.

Do you have any advice for using fediverse as your #work -related social network? My use case for such a network would be: inspiring others to do good work, building and maintaining my professional "brand," and helping myself or my employer attract new talent.

Some topics to consider: Same account, separate account? Server software (Mastodon, Pleroma, ...)? Discovering (potential) colleagues, being discovered by them? Pointing existing LinkedIn users to your fediverse account? Adjusting language/tone of communication based on fediverse nuances?

I am eager to learn. Boosts are appreciated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/remote-work-amazon-executives/680108/

If you can only measure productivity by person hours in chairs, then you're doing it wrong.

There is no good reason why knowledge workers need to be in an office building.
It's a waste of real estate that could be used for housing and entertainment.

The only folks that I've seen that are adamant about "return-to-office" are older #boomers who need to feel control over another person.

And to all the #linkedin folks that say we are slacking off, then prove it...

LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko

#AI #GenAI #LinkedIn #Microsoft

Librecast has closed its page on #LinkedIn and will be closing the Matrix Room on Matrix.org.

https://librecast.net/2025-07-31-matrix-and-linkedin.html

LinkedIn changed how they code their landing page and I needed to adjust my uBlock Origin rules to hide the cluttered up "news" (really, ads) feed they put down the side of the page. If like me you want an uncluttered experience and use uBlock Origin, here's a rule that hides that feed:

www.linkedin.com##div[componentkey="newsAndGamesCard"]


#uBlockOrigin #LinkedIn #cruft #clutter #ads

This post is not an invitation to scold me for using LinkedIn or Microsoft products, nor to suggest I leave it or find alternatives.

Following the success (sarcasm!) of my previous post "Battle of IMs", I decided it's time to write another post where I try to articulate in a technical but snarky way my view on the wonderful world of social media, and which one is best among the mainstream and non-mainstream ones. This is a long post, reviewing 14 different "socials".

https://gagliardoni.net/#20250818_battle_of_socials

#socialmedia #social #privacy #selfsovereignty #security #digitalsovereignty #mastodon #nostr #bluesky #ssb #securescuttlebutt #facebook #meta #tiktok #threads #x #twitter #diaspora #friendica #linkedin #xing #instagram

Bit of a content warning that I'm about to share some #LLM-generated slop. Just two short bits, to make a point.

I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams

I like to poke LinkedIn once in awhile with an "AI" critique to see what I can stir up. One reason I do this is to keep an eye on the changing form of the booster rhetoric. Nowadays a lot of folks respond to critique with some form of "today's LLMs are bad but tomorrow's will be amazing", the true believer/quasi-religious response with a touch of false humility for flavor. Yesterday I got a "AI critics are just as bad as AI boosters" false dichotomy, which by my read was a variant of the "AI critics are hysterical and irrational" with the twist that the speaker was suggesting that boosters are too. That felt new-ish to me. Granted, the hubristic "we're the smart guys in the room, you should do what we say" framing is ancient in the tech industry. Suggesting the boosters are also not the smart guys in the room is an interesting move because it's an attempt to go meta. Neither the boosters nor the critics are the smart guys in the room; the smart guys in the room are actually the ones who can see that (and so you should do what they say, which is more LLMs always).

#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM

In my new article for @assignedmedia.org, I share how #LinkedIn moderators are allowing #misgendering and other #HateSpeech against #trans users following a recent change to their policies.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/linkedin-allowance-hate-speech

All right, we all love a good, batshit LinkedIn post. This is my new favorite. Maybe I'll just start blogging on LinkedIn for the heck of it. #LinkedIn #LinkedInGoneWild #WatershipDown
Leadership Skills You Can Learn from Watership Down in 2023: The Year of the Rabbit
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-skills-you-can-learn-from-watership-down-2023-amy-stewart

Is there already an ActivityPub vocabulary for job openings, or cvs?

I'm trying to make my CV-webpage more visible, and also create a job-bot, that everyone can set up with their sources, and queries.

Obviously the idea is, to help people find jobs, and fill vacancies, without having to resort to a centralized network, like e.g. LinkedIn.

I'm aware of these efforts, though they're not ActivityPub related:
https://microformats.org/wiki/job-listing
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-resume

#ActivityPub #job #CV #LinkedIn