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Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)

submitted 8 months ago by jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

information sources:

List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users - Wikipedia

Fediverse Observer

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LinkedIn is very useful for job searching and networking. I don't post on there, but it was key to getting several job offers.

I'm not aware of any other professional social networks.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess it just annoys me that they built a product on incredibly shady practices and have somehow managed to wedge themselves in to the business world under the guise of being "legitimate". Trusting anything on their site, to me, feels as risky as trusting anything you see on Yelp -- sure a real person might have posted the review, or maybe the business paid their blackmail tax to not get de-listed, but how many better opportunities are not being shown because the company deleted all their positive reviews?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, sure, it's not good if they did sketchy stuff to bootstrap their network. I hadn't heard there before but I wouldn't be surprised.

But I don't think it's really the same as Yelp. Or at least not how I use it. Trust isn't really a factor. I don't use LinkedIn to review a company. I don't look at their soulless posts about how great their team is. I use it to see "do I know anyone who works at this place that has an opening I want?" Then when I see my old friend is a manager there, I shoot him a message (possibly not even via LinkedIn if it's someone I know well) and ask if it's someplace I would want to work at. There's not really a lot of room for fake in that process.

Also sometimes recruiters just message me. Some of them suck but that's not really particular to LinkedIn.

You're not thinking of Glassdoor, are you? Because that's more like yelp and I don't especially trust the positive reviews on there.

I don't really want to go to bat for Microsoft though. I'd be happier if there was a better professional network out there. But, you know, capitalist hellscape.