Just leave the proprietary platforms. Delete all your accounts. Cold turkey. I don’t miss any of this crap that constantly gets worse as well. In fact your life will probably be better because there are overall less things you need to take care of. It’s liberating.
I deleted my account months ago
Rimu doesn’t like Pepe lol
the fuck is a rimu and why would one care
XING if you want something in EU and still be somehow visible.
For Federation https://vutuv.de/
Vutuv looks kinda sloppy tbh
okay after digging through the repo, I also would say that it is heavily AI assisted. E.g. this Pull Request (which is the first one I opened randomly) seems like 90%+ AI:
https://github.com/wintermeyer/vutuv/pull/1434
I speak German and the PR text is just strange AI slop text. It reads like a Google Translate text from 2009 and is overly verbose.
That UI is just like a common web framework, which heavily trained by AI.
They seem to use Claude Code, but the page itself does look like standard framework to me. But tbh I don’t know.
you can take a look at their source here: https://github.com/wintermeyer/vutuv
The GitHub is what I mostly based my assumption on… seems very reliant on LLMs to me. Can’t say for sure obviously, I’m sure some humans just write this way. But most don’t.
yes I fully agree
Xing is very Germany-focused though.
Everyone should make account deletion requests quickly!
But can you do that without providing ID?
Lemmy is not going to like this but… Depending on your career and if you are looking to change jobs, you might just want to bite the bullet.
As much as people rightfully hate it, LinkedIn is THE platform for jobs in certain industries. You can make this your hill to die on, just be aware that there may be no real alternatives, and you may find yourself alone without a life raft.
It’s like being against WhatsApp in South America. That’s great for you, but 90% of people and businesses use that as their method of communication, often as the ONLY method of communication.
You’re gonna have to weigh for yourself if it’s worth it or not.
So just give up?
Look, you can hate pants. Despise them. Proudly state that society is dumb for embracing them and adamantly refuse to wear them. That is your right. You can make that choice. You will be going against the grain and against societal expectations and will likely run into difficulties and challenges that people who just decide to go ahead and wear pants wont face, but that is your choice to make.
If you are in a position in life that you can say “fuck you”! Then more power to you. But if you are job hunting, or think you will be in the future, well… Again, you don’t HAVE to, but things will be significantly harder for you if you don’t. Yes it sucks. Yes it’s unfair. But it’s not something most people can feasibly do anything about.
And as long as there are people, who willingly gulp down every us-american surveillance and privacy-killing endeavors, nothing will ever change. Glory to the holy empire just because I want one of those jobs? How pathetic, sorry.
With that pragmatism one could really justify everything. If only the majority does it too, or is just oblivious and/or ignorant of the underlaying problems.
As you said, the same reasons why this fucking abomination called WhatsApp still exists.
No thanks, I prefer being able to stand my reflection in a mirror. Because knowledge of an evil, while also participating in it, makes me complicit.
Xing.com is German
French one here: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en-GB
Don’t use linkedin myself, but iirc I saw that Fediverse has an alt for that. I think it was vutuv?
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I did say I only saw that it exists, not how it works.
Looks like your account is permanently restricted (if you do not give them your ID).
So it is not possible to delete my account without giving them my ID?
Yep, my acct has been held hostage with this bs for months now. You won’t get anywhere with their support, because they will not treat you as it’s owner
Well, it’s a us-american company. You get what you paid for and had it coming.
I was able to log in with my password and didn’t need any ID, but I deleted the account so I will not end up in your situation. I have deleted several old accounts during the summer, so this was just one more account that is now deleted.
You might give the fairly new Maindeck a try
There’s one called “Sifa.id”, but I’m struggling to work my way through their marketing speak to work out what they actually do.
It sounds like it’s loosely connected to the fediverse, except the Bluesky one, not the normal one.
There is the German platform xing
This is a security feature for account recovery, not data hoarding.
Corporate bootlicking.
No, they randomly blocked my acct with this, suggesting malicious access. But i have mfa enabled and there is no sign of misuse. Good luck explaining that to them if they won’t acknowledge you as the acct holder until you give your id and ALL it’s details to Persona. Privacy and security my ass
