A real cyber security specialist only has shill accounts for osint and if they do have a real account, they definitely don't share shit like this on a public account.
I recently came dangerously close to having to use LinkedIn as my job was up in the air for awhile due to RTO shenanigans. I knew it was always a site for shilling but when I reactivated my account to update my resume, my God the amount of corporate back patting was insane. People I knew IRL as down to earth hardworking folks, were shilling so hard for a company that couldn't give two fucks less who they are and were using every buzz word from the white-collar, salaried company bootlicker playbook in every post.
Now, I know that's "the game" and if you want to get ahead you have to play, so I can't blame them for grinding, but at the same time, fuck that. I guess I'm fine being where I am and never moving up because I refuse to play that BS.
Itâs mostly an HR circlejerk and people who make their jobs their entire personality. Donât get me wrong, there are people in my field who post valuable stuff on there, but they are a tiny minority.
I always considered it more to be a kind of reverse tinder.
It's the platform where women contact me to tell me they like what they see and to ask me for my phone number to have a talk. And once they have it, they won't leave me alone.
It's how I feel it must actually be like for women on actual dating platforms. Minus the unsolicited pics.
I don't even know why there are recruiting companies on there when companies can just post their job openings and do it themselves. If they truly believe these recruiting offices are vetting candidates.... I was once offered a job for an actual architect when I was a solution architect in IT....I told him I'd love to give it a try, even though I've never designed houses before. He didn't even reply :(
I feel like the Fediverse hasn't yet reached the Eternal September moment, and I'm happy for that. A smaller footprint means we get to have our own culture.
On the other hand, even though it means losing this culture, I would like to see greater general adoption of the fediverse and decentralized social media in general. Sure, there will likely be some big-name domains serving fediverse instances, the same way email is primarily served by Gmail et al, but anyone should be able to spin up their own instance and interact as well. I don't believe Internet communication should be locked behind various walled gardens, and people should re-acclimatize themselves to a version of the Internet where anyone can host and contribute.
I'm curious on how a federation would handle an Eternal September. If we [the community] play our cards right, we could get "newbie instances" - in those the newbies would either adapt themselves to the rest of the culture of the Fediverse or forge their own, in a non-conflicting way with the others. It would be kind of cool.
It's a fine picture of various platforms, but I'd have trouble calling Twitch, Discord, and YouTube "social media." Discord is basically IRC with more bells and whistles and no one ever called IRC "social media."
Social media wasn't a thing back when IRC was big but it did basically the same as modern social media sites do today: people connected and talked.
And I would argue that Twitch/Discord/YouTube do different things than Facebook or Twitter in the end all of those places are there to connect and talk about stuff (and to harvest money and data).
I'd wager the majority of them are dead/inactive accounts. I remember graduating from undergrad and thinking I had to make a LinkedIn account to get a job, used it for maybe 45 minutes, and never touched it again. I feel like this is the case with a lot of people
I'm suprised as well. But it says monthly active users. So I'm guessing they count distinct logins per month, which a dead account can't do. I'd guess it's probably bots looking for keywords and building profiles for recruiters.
YouTube is vulnerable due to their low payouts and high ad insertion. Youâd think someone like Amazon would be trying to steal some of that huge market share with a competing service.
And yet Facebook is the one platform I use the least often. I just don't see the appeal, let alone why I'd ever give a flying crap about what other people are doing. I only have a facebook page because my other family members use it to post and keep in touch.
That's kind of my point, whoever made this doesn't know what they're talking about. So who knows if they did anything else correctly, even though the only other thing is pulling user accounts from Wikipedia.