[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

[Mica Semrick]

We'd love to have all you wonderful people on pixls.us! I'd like to think we are a less creepy platform than LinkedIn as well. We have the social login feature and a bunch of good people!

- mica

On January 23, 2019 11:34:10 PM PST, Stefan Mueller <stefan.mueller.83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>@Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> what do you think about
>pixel.us
>@Simon Frei, writing is a bit more comfortable in the app but the main
>point is, that you have all your discourse in on app, easily accessible
>and
>notification pop up only there if you want (as I want)
>
>Le mer. 23 janv. 2019 à 09:34, Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com> a écrit
>:
>
>> According to reviews this app is just a webview of discourse. Which
>> isn't bad, but you can just as well open it in your favorite mobile
>> browser (which works pretty well, apart from the terrible typing,
>which
>> is unrelated :) ).
>>
>> On 23/01/2019 09:27, Stefan Müller wrote:
>> > it looks like pixel.us runs a https://www.discourse.org/ instance,
>> > that's great :), the only thing what is missing is the mobile API
>to
>> > access it with
>> > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discourse.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 23.01.2019 09:11, Remco Viëtor wrote:
>> >> On mercredi 23 janvier 2019 08:13:30 CET Stephane Ascoet wrote:
>> >>>> I asked the German Wikipedia for LinkedIn, especially the
>criticism.
>> >>>> LinkedIn sends unsolicited invitation emails to non-members, if
>not
>> >>>> responding, re- prompts. I have already received 2 invitations
>from
>> >>>> you,
>> >>>> which you probably did not even initiate. ((:-)) It is
>interesting,
>> >>>> to an
>> >>>> e-mail address, which I used perhaps 1 or 2 times provided.
>LinkedIn
>> >>>> probably read your e-mail history. I think there are no serious
>social
>> >>>> networks in this world.
>> >>> Hi, I fully agree. When I was on LinkedIn, I saw in my "proposed
>> >>> contacts" at least one people I didn't want to see(for personnal
>and
>> >>> complicated reasons I won't reveal here). The only way to make
>the link
>> >>> was to read her address book(or worse). I write "worse" because,
>yes, I
>> >>> couldn't think they could do such a thing than reading mail, but
>I read
>> >>> or heard something about this. I though it was on this list but
>after
>> >>> verification, it seems not. It was about an attorney service.
>They
>> >>> don't
>> >>> have the right to talk to the opposite side, or it could create
>very
>> >>> bigs problems. However, the opposite side received an invitation
>to
>> >>> join
>> >>> this attorney's network. It created huge problems, they had much
>> >>> work to
>> >>> calm the hurricane it made in the justice institutions. The only
>way to
>> >>> make the link between both of them was to read mails where
>opposite
>> >>> side's adress was written in the attorney box.
>> >>>
>> >>> I closed my account(after having send a mail to my contacts that
>> >>> probably did have no effect) when I realized that this site with
>a
>> >>> professional layer were in fact just like the other ones and I
>don't
>> >>> understand why so much activist geeks are on it, especially
>because I
>> >>> don't have the feeling that employers use it so much in
>france(but I
>> >>> may
>> >>> be wrong).
>> >> LinkedIn indeed tend(ed) to spam others, based at least on the
>> >> address book of
>> >> members.
>> >> To the best of my knowledge, I do not have an account on LinkedIn.
>> >> They seem
>> >> to agree, as I used to get regular invites to join LinkedIn,
>> >> supposedly from
>> >> members/through members. Although that practice seems to have
>calmed
>> >> down
>> >> lately.
>> >>
>> >> So, please do not replace this list by anything like LinkedIn,
>until
>> >> such
>> >> methods are abolished.
>> >>
>> >> Remco
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
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