Flockingbird @flockingbird@fosstodon.org

@thedeltaflyer @krock @joshbdoc

Next week I'll spend some time in getting the TODO's and tasks online and categorised.

I certainly think there's thing to do for anyone. From writing up and categorising ideas, tasks and todo's, via investigating existing tools, templates for "resumes", to actually writing code.

Code is in Ruby, but we don't use an MVC framework like Rails. Instead we chose "event sourced" so that any tool/db/program that can "do stuff on commands" can be bolted on.

@nurinoas @krock @thedeltaflyer @joshbdoc

No we haven't. It's a hurdle we'll take if ever we arrive there.

'till then, its just another Open Source (MIT) project with a "benevolent dictator" (the sole dev, me) at the rudder. And two "anons" helping with the model, interviews, giving feedback and so on.

@krock @thedeltaflyer @joshbdoc thanks! We're still working on proof of concepts and demo stuff. But the source is open, ideas are welcome, and critique too. Feel free to dive in and see if it makes any sense. Feel free to ask anything. (documtation is naturally lacking severely in this stage.)

On the other hand: gig platforms have a great liberating potential. Freedom to work wherever, whenever on whatever you want.

And a great levelling potential. Offering people across the globe access to work on a single market. Potentially everyone, from Lagos to Bangalore to NYC can do a design gig for a marketing firm in London!

But that implies freedom to take your business elsewhere. Leave fiverr for sixxerr if one is treating you badly. To ride for Ünder if Über demands too much.

LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace, taking on UpWork and Fiverr - https://aimgroup.com/2021/02/22/linkedin-building-gig-marketplace/

Tying one's professional reputation, hiring chances, and therefore income, tighly inside a single platform. A dangerous idea: making a platform the sole gatekeeper of peoples' income and career chances.

@arran Neat!

I'm familiar with the ins- and outs, architecture, API, tech and setup of one of worlds' largest bill-splitting apps, so feel free to shoot me questions on the PM if you have any!

@nurinoas The relations won't get updated automatically. If you say you are still at university, who are "we" to doubt that? Only the author can edit such attributes or relations.

This is not new, though: is up to you to keep your resumé up to date and honest. If you feel like putting on your resumé that you currently work at, say, NASA: no-one is stopping you from putting that on your resume. Or on LinkedIn. We don't want to solve that in Flockingbird either.

@nurinoas To be clear: We propose a search-engine/index that works entirely on the existing mastodon, pleroma, pixelfed etc. It would only index public information! So, no: "hiding from same organisation" is not possible: anyone can use the search anonymously.

Also, to be clear: this is not part of Flockingbird, the software. Just a service for the community to use while we are building this software.

@dansup good call!

Though the ethical alternatives are competing for time and attention with the non-ethical ones.

Deceptive patterns then give the non-ethical alternatives the "higher ground", forcing the ethical alternatives to fight an uphill battle.

One way to circumvent that, is to not fight the fight. To position your ethical alt. as something that can be used besides, or on-top-of the non-ethical alt. Instead of being antagonistic to this alt. In language and features.
Just my $0.02.

@hanswolters Interesting. Thanks for sharing! Makes me wonder how people who don't work (pension etc) use LinkedIn. If at all.

Maybe to find people to hire? To hire help, or contractors?