I hope not 😢
12 Years ago… I’ve zero interested in Google+
Only place I’ve ever accidentally uploaded a dick pic and so glad I had like 2 friends on there who never checked lol. It was a fun 2 weeks.
Lol are you sure it was an accident or did it only become an accident when your 2 friends didn’t look 😜
This was pretty good lol
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/shorts
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Risky click of the day
almost watched a tik tok knockoff. that was close.
In 12 years, selfhosting will be so cheap and one-push-button easy that everyone will have their own instance and federated with each other. It will be called Neo-Geocities 2.0.
Both Neocities and Yahoo! licking their lips over that name.
So, like p2p clients?
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Oh man, this takes me back…
I can believe that, honestly.
Related tech: https://small-tech.org/
There is now Neocities.org so I’d say you’re spot on :)
Had a big following on G+, did a few courses and had a lot of fun in that network. Still friends with many of the people I connected with on there.
Never quite got that feel on Reddit and Lemmy won’t have it either because identities are hidden. But that’s OK, all platforms have a purpose.
I still can’t stand Facebook. Even though it makes me money, I feel the ick being on there every time.
Ha I am actually still friends with people I met on G+ as well. Before Pokémon Go Niantic had a game called Ingress and we organized teams and strategized on Google+ groups and chat. I don’t know how google messed it up honestly with the way everyone with gmail had an account…you could chat and there was audio and video calling that worked pretty well. It was also very clean and modern for the time. Oh well, Alphabet.
Google never really recovered from the attempt at “FOMO” by restricting most from accessing the newly hyped social media network.
By the time Google opened it up, people were already moving on to other platforms.
Although some instances do restrict new signups, imagine if they all restricted access? It would not be the same here.
This is why you should never adopt Google services, there’s a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.
Same reason I don’t get emotionally invested in Fox TV shows.
I’ll still grumble about Gifted getting cancelled for the next 80 years /sigh
At least they let me turn my Stadia controller into a regular Bluetooth controller ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bought Cyberpunk for Stadia and received a Chromecast Pro and a Stadia controller with it for free. I sold them both which covered the cost of Cyberpunk which later got refunded when Stadia went offline. So I actually made money by using Stadia.
I miss my Google music…
I think the biggest miss Google had was with Google Wave. It was way ahead of its time, and absolutely crashed and burned at launch because of the invite-only model.
I bought a Google OnHub router, which was amazing. It was marketed as the most “future-proof” router at the time. Then Google made Google WiFi mesh routers around a year later, and OnHub was never marketed or mentioned again. Now, in addition to my already concerning privacy issues around Google services, I don’t trust that they will release quality, supported products.
Chromecasts are pretty solid
It’s been a while since I’ve used a Chromecast, but they were always reliable.
I threw mine in the trash in less than a month, didn’t even bother trying to resell it and just wanted it gone. What a pile of fucking shit that thing was. I spent more time troubleshooting than watching.
I can’t say I had these problems back when I was using them, but that doesn’t mean much because mine are sitting in a box somewhere and worthless since most TVs and streaming players support it now.
I have a gen 1 Chromecast that I use almost daily, such a beast
I heard that Google is about to drop support of their older chromecasts. (You might want to look into this to confirm though)
I hope not!
I started reading your comment and thought “please be about Wave” haha. The funniest part about Wave is how they learned no lessons from it.
The invite-only model worked great for Gmail because it was an actual service with real utility and people wanted in (1GB storage was huuuuge). But with social networks, the courting ritual is reversed, because without a critical mass of users the product has no utility.
So what do they do with G+? Invite only 🤦♂️
And by then they had something like half the world running Android, with Google accounts… and didn’t just let them in. Youtube should have been a simple “if you want to check out G+, your Youtube account will get you in, otherwise carry on.” Instead they make it invite only and then bully youtubers into registering.
It’s just mind-boggling how little they understood about social networks after building such a wonderful piece of software for it.
I loved Google+ at the time but I was invested in the Google services ecosystem back then.
By then I predict the big corp news media will report on Lemmy like it’s the new 4chan. Unmoderated instances that no major instance links to will give them plenty of ammunition. Non technical users will believe it to the frustration of all Lemmy.
Not trying to be a downer when they attack you, you know you’re winning
Bad publicity is still publicity
If they call it 4chan people will point to Beehaw as proof parts of Lemmy are “acceptable”
I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.
I also liked YouTube chat. I had Messenger at the time, but I could contact my family on YouTube chat too. So I deleted my Facebook account and switched to chatting over YouTube. Then they shut it down, so I just let it be and stopped talking with my family.
I never used Google Plus, what did you like about it?
per post scoping was nice.
I didn’t have to manually tag each account, just select the circle and publish.
The “circles” were awesome. It was a breeze to tweak your feed based on which circle you put someone in. Rather than get all the posts from a very hit or miss account I could pretty much say “only the top posts”.
Eventually, Facebook and Twitter copied the feature, so Google+ lost its advantage.
I can’t remember much of it. But I was using it everyday.
/u/[email protected] Are you on Diaspora? I heard that’s where most of the Google+ refugees ended up.
I liked the idea of circles. I’m part of multiple social circles and what might be interesting for one could very well be meaningless for another circle.
Google+ didn’t work because they didn’t push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.
Yes - I’m being serious they didn’t push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn’t inadvertently leak your info.
If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we’d still have Google+ today.
Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we’d still have Google Talk. I don’t recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don’t have to use.
Nah dude, there’s no way that would have worked, the reason why g + backfired was literally because everyone on yt was forced to make a g account to just comment.
I think you misunderstand what they’re saying. You shouldn’t have had to make an account. G+ should’ve just been a part of your existing Google account.
I don’t recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don’t have to use.
But… it is optional. Opt-out, sure, but optional nonetheless. I have disabled it on my work phone.
As far as I’m concerned, barely anyone uses iMessage outside US. If it weren’t for the US market, it would have been discontinued long ago.
To be fair, most Americans don’t know anything exists outside of America.
They started out like that, but then they tried to force it down everybody’s throats and it backfired. It was mismanaged from start to finish, which is a shame because it really was good despite Vic Gundotra.
Eh, the whole reason I refused to use it WAS because they forced it on me so hard. Being forced into having one of you wanted to watch YouTube did my head in and I refused to use it. Same reason I don’t use Microsoft edge even though it’s a little less shit now
That’s what they did with Google Buzz, and that was even less popular than G+ every was.
If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we’d still have Google+ today.
Is this comment for real, or sarcasm? Did the upvoters forget about Google Buzz already?
Absolute truth. I was onboard with G+ early. I handed out invites to everyone I could. I pushed my spouse to use it. Ultimately what killed it was it being invite-only, and mainly only tech enthusiasts were on the site initially. When other people got invited by them, and the newer users didn’t see their friends and family on the site, they just left and never revisited it. That was my experience anyways. The model Threads used will be the model that all large social media sites use to roll out new social media products, it just makes the most sense.
Google+ was so weird, for a considerable amount of time it was invite only, you needed some form of connection to get in – turns out this wasn’t great as they assumed it would be. I can only assume that is the reason they pulled a massive U-turn and decided to foist it upon anyone and everyone after the fact, which, it would appear, was also a bad idea.
It had some cool features, like how you could group/rank who you were following. It was just missing users
I think the best allegory I saw was someone trying to get into an exclusive club with a really long line. They finally get in and the place is empty so it sucks
I’m wondering if Bluesky is doing the same thing to itself
Google+ was the home of the online TableTop RPG scene out of whatever reason. We used hangouts for videochats back in the day, because you could directly stream them to YT, which was also favoured by the RPG Streamers at the time. It was wild, Google Hangouts frames were hot shit to portray your character stats and stuff. I really miss those times…
If I recall, they’ve just finished up a round of seed funding. I’ve heard precious little about the project itself, though. You may be on to something.
better than google +
Original Google+ before nymwars was so good. The photo walks and the community was amazing.
Yeah, Google really ruined it by forcing everyone to sign it with YouTube.
Google did write golang and Google likes killing everything it touches Lemmy is written in go…
Lemmy is written in Rust. I currently don’t know if there is fediverse server software written in Go tbh
It was a joke and a jab at Google. But how does rust get hacked. That’s unnerving
Is it now? Github says it’s Rust at 80%. And a layer of rust is a good protection again further rust 😃
This is not how rust works, rust is blooming and eating ever deeper. Green Copper-Patina on the other hand is a protective layer.
I had “weathering steel” in mind, butt you’re right, even in this case, rust still eats at it, just slower.
I don’t think anyone is going to create a coding language called Green Copper Patina.
Thinking about it that way, that would actually be a good name, but I bet it would be a favourite in the Linux crowd.
Honestly I am just going off of my preconceptions on this golang presumption. I tend to bet often that a rust or go based product is going to win out in most cases.
The launch was actually pretty cool then they started limiting accounts and tottally took all the steam out
