well, this here. it takes time to build, of course, but #mastodon can fully replace #linkedin

The only thing that gives me pause is that everything seems to be hosted in the US, and they use services like amazonaws.

And your pedagogy zines project sounds genuinely fascinating, I've recently become really interested in zines and DIY/small publishing.

Joining also lets people make a profile page. They're similar to websites but much simpler. Here is mine: https://hcommons.org/members/foureyedsoul/

This year I've started making a few little zines related to pedagogy, accessibility, or open education. (I was inspired by this zine a colleague made. It's hosted on a different Jekyll site I helped make: https://infolit-idaho.github.io/infolit-for-everyone/zines/#sift-zine )

For the pedagogy zines project, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to just make another Jekyll site (since I'm familiar with that process) or if I might expand the project into something I do with other people.

If I do end up making it a group thing, I'll definitely use Knowledge Commons for the website. Other people typically find WordPress far easier to pick up than Jekyll's publishing process!

This actually looks much closer to what I'm looking for than Linkedin... thanks for sharing this.

So you have a personal webpage there?

Building some professional profile or just as a distributed address book?

https://hcommons.org

I wouldn't quite say that it's a *full* replacement for LinkedIn—I'm on both, personally—but I certainly think of it as a better alternative.

Since you're interested in Digital Humanities, having a different type of personal site (or a few project-specific ones) might also be useful?

For instance, I taught myself to use Jekyll and GitHub Pages precisely as a small demonstration of having specific technical interests/skills, and that seems to have worked out nicely as a thing to discuss in job interviews.

I'm now an Instructional Designer, so being able to talk about a range of tech (from Jekyll to WordPress to more approachable) has been very useful. So again, having complementary sites might be worthwhile?

A personal website feels more intentional and human, and more representative of actual work, projects and interests.

I often hear from someone who has looked me up online with a search engine, that they read the stuff I have on the site.

I much prefer this, to the pseudo public wall of LinkedIn.

How do you use it in practice? Do you actively send the link to people/applications, or is it more something people organically find through your email signature/social profiles?