We need an alternative that supports cooperatives and guarantees decent moderation.
The survey is open for 1 week. To gauge feedback for the project.
26/9/2025
We need an alternative that supports cooperatives and guarantees decent moderation.
The survey is open for 1 week. To gauge feedback for the project.
26/9/2025
Thanks for the feedback. This post is just meant to discuss where the concept could lead to. I haven’t committed fully yet to the potential project as I have a lot of questions about it. Not many of us are as talented as Dansup or Rimu.
There is an open-source project at:
https://alternativeto.net/software/joblist-today/about/
A LinkedIn alternative will face the same issue that ANY alternative social media face: the network effect. You want to be on the social media that everyone uses to find others and be found. If this is true when you are sharing pictures of your cat, it’s even more true when you are trying to sell yourself for a job. The number of contacts you have on LinkedIn is an important metric when recruiters check your CV (mmm a senior with only 30 contacts? Reject) and no brand new alternative will replace that.
However, it doesn’t need to replace LinkedIn from day 1. Just like you can share your personal webpage or Mastodon profile on LinkedIn, you could share your Alt-LinkedIn and drive traffic to it.