watercolour; dark grey background with swirls and holes scattered around purple splotchy sky, in the foreground there's a ring woman olive green bare tree, above towards the left there's a fractayburst of light curving towards the tree, partial silhouettes of the tree at different sizes can be seen.
I'm not sure how it could be done without having central servers
Let's explore the following:
companies have their instances where they post their vacancies
there is a bunch of instances, bigger, smaller, some for one person only, where people post their resumes and use to browse the jobs
we could even add some tagging system into the mix, so you can follow a set of "#city#branch#technology" for example
In order for a job to appear on my instance, someone on the instance would have to follow the account of the company that posted the offer
for personal instances that would mean I would have to discover a company before it posts a vacancy. Most of the jobs I see on LI are from companies I have never heard of
for instances with multiple users, that would mean some would have the job post you are interested about and some not
if we tried to have regional instances (already a centralization), someone would have to maintain the federation list
some kind of discovery/bridge instance? Regional?
And then there is a question of privacy. I would not like someone on the instance of my current employer to possibly be notified of me sending a message to another instance
So decentralization of all that would be hard. And without decentralization, the instance would have to be pretty hefty and it will be just a matter of time until some big company tries to have a special deal with the body running the service. Or will simply drown out the feed compared to a company with just one job post
I guess it might work if the central instances were owned by employment offices. But at the time, most of local governance doesn't even post on fediverse
I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.
For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.
For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.
However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, had promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:
The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.
The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.
There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:
I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.
I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.
We need a Linkedin replacement
I just reviewed this awesome fediverse list, did a broad search, and checked out /alterative.to -- but no luck. ...