BizzFed – Professional Network. No Algorithm. Federated

BizzFed is a proposed professional networking platform that positions itself as a "federated" alternative to LinkedIn. It is built on the ActivityPub protocol, the same decentralized standard used by Mastodon (the Twitter alternative). The core pitch: instead of one company's algorithm controlling what you see, each user or organization runs their own "instance" (a server node) that can freely communicate with others on the network — similar to how email works across different providers (Gmail, Outlook, etc.). The project appears early-stage; the site currently shows a landing page with a manifesto and a mailing-list signup. If it gains traction, it would let professionals own their data and connections rather than handing them to a corporate platform like LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) or XING (owned by New Work SE). The name and many interface mockups are clearly modeled on LinkedIn's visual language, which may raise trademark questions down the line.