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!
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.