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I'm honestly looking at your idea, and really I am.
I think you're trying to solve spam by making it a paid service, but paid and walled gardens go directly against the fediverse, whose protocol can be read and submitted to by anyone. So it's either a paid walled garden, in which case it's LinkedIn, or it's open.
Instead, I'd say that you're going for a verification system, to say I am this person and I am willing to prove it is. I think this could be done, and your platform would only care about others who are verified. Spammers aren't willing to prove who they are, and for most of the fediverse I could see them going against something like a verification system. However on a platform like linked in that's different, you could have a verification system and it'd be to its benefit.
My 2 cents at least
Nope, no verification system...complete opposite...you'd just need to pay an I don't care who you are (I'd even take crypto like Monero). I think being on week 4 of wrestling with LinkedIn's verification system (being in LI jail for the 3rd time!) has made me sick of it.
One thing I like about the fediverse is it's very community-driven. If I come across a spam message on Mastodon, I'll start to report it to the community but find 10 others who are saying the same thing and within 5 minutes the dude is out. Meanwhile LinkedIn has a draconian verification system that treats its users like toddlers, while every other week I have someone asking to take over my UpWork account (and LI doesn't ban them).
Oh, then no. As someone who heavily uses LinkedIn for my professional life and the fediverse for my personal, I would not use it. Fediverse is great for my personal life, LinkedIn is free and already used abundently. It's how I've gotten my last several jobs. I would see no benefit in paying for a smaller less used service.
I think most people would agree with me, why pay for something that would have less recruiters and less benefit than using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a sell out's game, sure, but I'm not exactly going there because I want to give out crunchy granola vibes either.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I keep forgetting that a lot of people use LinkedIn for job-searching (I mean, I kinda do too, but been active on it like 7 years without a single follow-through). I see it as a networking tool. Job-searching may be part of it, but business leaders and ultra wealthy use it to make connections and support each other (theoretically). Businesses/creators would be the target market. Maybe some job-search aspect to it at some point.