I hope that it'll look less buggy. Today was awful.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Sorry, I'm in the minority that actually liked Google+.
Circles were a good idea
I thought circles was the best idea. I loved having a bit more control over posts. Unfortunately, only two of my friends used it, so it was worthless for me for the most part.
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I enjoyed it as well. It was pretty cool. Then I became busy with other stuff and one day I heard the news that G+ would be shut down.
If only you stayed active on it, Google wouldn't have shut it down.
Kidding lol. I used it too, it was pretty sweet. It felt like a mix of Twitter and Tumblr.
It was a pretty cool platform but their biggest problem was making it invite only, therefore forcing it to be smaller than competing platforms. Invite only may work for Gmail but not for social media.
I also enjoyed Google+. I liked the app and the interface. The content was pretty good for a bit.
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I mean this post has 1200 upvotes. Considering most people don't engage with the voting system that makes me think that there's a decent amount of people here. At the very least it means there's a lot of people here who engage with the community. More come every day. If this post were on Reddit, it would be on r/all right now. That's not bad for a community with a fraction of the users.
I think that in 10 years this place will be doing alright. I think the growth that's happened in the last few months won't last, but I think that growth will still steadily happen. The reddexodus doesn't happen every day but with most social media platforms shitting their geriatric pants more and more lately, I think a consistent flow of refugees will come here.
No one is more shocked that I am that this post got more than six votes lol
I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+
They should've called it Google Circles. Google Plus just sounded like some kind of premium subscription to Google and not like a social network.
I really enjoyed Google+ specifically for the Circles feature. I'm pretty sure it was the age unrestricted global Hangouts chats that killed it.. Probably what this scene from Silicon Valley is about.
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I don't care about the name much, but it's going to make searching for anything on here through a regular search engine cumbersome. Lemmy is just going to bring up results to the late motorhead singer
It's like how Reddit is I've read it, Lemmy is Let me tell you.. Think an excited person, "Lemmytellyousomething!!!"
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The beauty of the Fediverse is that no single entity controls it... In 12 years, I'd wager we're still around.
I would wager most of nowadays instances have either fallen into obscurity or just finished existing, I think we will see instancea more focused in scalability if thr fediverse grows in popularity, whoch will kind of dominate the space.
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and there will be 1000000s of different versions
10 of which will be enormous and will be the vast majority of what most users see.
True. That's already happening now if you notice lemmy.world, mastodon.social, pixelfed.social, etc.
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With open source and interoperability, this is a good thing, because then you can choose the experience you wanna have. You're not bound to a single vendor-locked platform that's subject to continuity issues or a degraded experience that forces you to move elsewhere and start over in terms of following/followers. You simply pack up and migrate to another instance.
I'm still wishing the internet could go back to how it was in the 90's so I'm hoping it will continue to look the same in 12 years.
I kind of feel like a single Lemmy instance will ~~domonate~~ dominate and become the defacto instance that everyone just joins.
Since people post to channels that you can search for and subscribe to, there is no incentive for that to happen.
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I think that's against the plan with Lemmy and distributed instances, but they can improve sign up, and make it possible to migrate your user between instances, or do some unique username across all instances.
A cool feature would also be that a user could backup all their posts and votes.
Simple fix, just don't join big instances, create new communities on small instances and self-host. If everybody does so, nobody has an interest into coercing users in a hermetic system, because they have far more to loose through possible defederation
The whole system is crap.
We should have gotten something that's actually decentralised and P2P like Aether.
What we got was centralised servers + a glorified RSS feed that enables even more echo chambers than Reddit did... The fediverse is doomed to remain irrelevant imho
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I don't really get what the hate was for Google+, it was better than the alternative/competitor at the time (Facebook)
It was definitely much better than Facebook at the time. Especially the concept of circles that they implemented.
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This is why you should never adopt Google services, there's a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.
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I honestly hope lemmy will not die. It will have to become simpler though. For many people, it will be simply way too complicated to wrap their head around the fact of many instances and most of them will worry about not being able to interact with people from other instances.
Also, the main lemmy web app is not necessarily good and alternatives such as wefwef are far easier to use.
We just need to be better about simplifying the explanation. Don't tell people "it's a federated website using an activitypub backend to communicate like mastodon, but only links to federated lemmys not including mastodon instances...." Tell them "it's a fourm that shares posts and comments with other fourms that agree to work together". If they want more detail they can easily find it themselves.
Federation is the invisible glue that makes it all work.. I have my own server but i can talk to you on lemmy.world without having to think about it or do anything special. Most people joining in the future won't need to care federation even exists, just like they don't care SMTP exists.
That said I suspect there will be a few mega servers anyway.. just like gmail.. people seem to like being where everyone else is.
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I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.
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