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I closed my LinkedIn account and moved to the German Xing. It was the only EU solution I could found that resembled the US one.

That's one thing I cross of my US dependency list.

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[โ€“] Pechente@feddit.org 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

โ€žActive enoughโ€œ seems funny to me as Xing used to be pretty active in the past but essentially got replaced by LinkedIn. It seems that Xing has also made some very poor business decisions in the past that contributed to this decline.

Would be great if itโ€™s growing again but in my memory itโ€™s just a dying network.

[โ€“] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago

It lost when they killed the groups. Xing had fairly active user groups with a lot of local influencers - in a positive sense, not the grifty one, people who could pull barcamps together and really fun networking events.

A lot of german people moved over to linkedin back then and interaction on xing dropped massivly.

It's now owned by Hubert Burda Media.

[โ€“] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Never heard about it before so I thought it was newer.

I feel like it could only grow again if the EU starts actively pushing companies to favor EU websites to reduce dependence on the USA.