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In a way LinkedIn is federated. You create a profile or post, and within minutes hundreds of shady data brokers and contact details resellers have a copy of your post available for their customers!
I don't really see the benefit, though. LinkedIn is functionally almost the same as Facebook, and can be replicated by adding a theme to a Friendica instance with a few custom fields. The biggest difference is that LinkedIn allows recruiters to ~~spam and stalk you~~offer you jobs, other than that it's just Facebook where most adults have decided to only talk about work stuff.
Fair enough.