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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Finally deleted my LinkedIn account! (hachyderm.io)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that Activitypub federation and that sort of privacy are somewhat incompatible. Because someone could always just create a new instance and then federate the stuff you don't want shared with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The point would be sharing data that's not useful without the key. So you could share your public key and public metadata, but to access private data you'd need to get approved first. An approval request would be encrypted with your public key and contain a response key, and your response would contain your response encrypted with their key.

You obviously wouldn't be able to control what they do with your data once decrypted, but all of that back and forth can happen in the clear without giving up private information. It's the same way GPG/PGP works over email, just on a fediverse instead of SMTP.

It really wouldn't be all that hard to implement, I just don't think it would get any meaningful traction because LinkedIn is so reliant on the network effect.