I hope that it’ll look less buggy. Today was awful.
If it’s anything like what “All” shows me, it will be mostly furries, sissies, anime, and 196 with just a splash of conservative. Unless you block it, Lemmy got some weird shit yo.
Google+ was too much of a copy of the existing social networks at the time.
I’m still a Google Reader orphan though.
Fuckin google+… Lets not try to spill the salt while we get this thing going
Lemmy is still going to be here because it’s not a Google product.
Google made a huge mistake shutting down Google+. If they had built it out to integrate with Youtube, where people could have a space to Tweet, have a Main Page feed like Facebook, and post videos all in the same platform, they would have dominated the market.
I still have a hard time believing that no-one has created a platform that encompasses all of those things. Meta is doing it piece-meal but it’s all disorganized. It should be one unified platform.
That’s why I hope some developers start working on a way to integrate Lemmy and Mastodon and like… PeerTube together into a single frontend. I’d love to be able to manage my Mastodon posts and BS on Lemmy in the same website.
Touche…
Pour one out for project Ara, everyone… And the hundreds of other companies that had a bright future before Google bought and destroyed them.
Google play music : …(
Feel the Fediverse!
This is extremely interesting. So many products that I’ve never heard of and many of them were actually around for 6-12 years before being axed or coming up on death soon. A lot of these I had heard of and even used occasionally over the years and I didn’t realize were gone now.
It’s amazing how many cool projects they’ve funded the creation of, but never really advertised, and subsequently killed
Wow, so many products I didn’t realize were dead. I remember when they were pushing Duo.
Some of them weren’t really killed, just renamed. Duo for example is now Meet
2017 - 2023
Service
YouTube Stories
Killed 15 days ago, YouTube Stories (originally YouTube Reels) allowed creators to post temporary videos that would expire after seven days. It was over 5 years old.
I found one I’m happy about. Good riddance!
What, but they still have YouTube Shorts.
Do shorts disappear?
Thank goodness…
Google did write golang and Google likes killing everything it touches Lemmy is written in go…
I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.
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.
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.
Does anyone remember the asian (?) Platform “multiply”, long long ago, where you could upload music for your friends? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply_(website)?wprov=sfla1
I really liked it back in the day, then it died. I hope Lemmy will preservere…
This is why you should never adopt Google services, there’s a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.
I miss my Google music…
Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven’t experienced much of either yet. There’s tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I’m just not seeing it yet ¯\(ツ)/¯
The trick is to start posting interesting content. We all have to do our part for this to take off.
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.
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?
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.
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
I wonder if civilization will last 12 years
just one more turn…
Wait… this was referenced in a futurama’s episode? That show is pure gold
I’m waiting for it to start
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.
Just took a quick peak at wefwef.
You consider that easier?
Significantly. If you are used to the UI it is a very fast experience. The learning curve can be a bit sharp unfortunately.
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.
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G+ was just one of many. APIs come and go with maps, spreadsheets, forms, fusion tables. Played with some custom map places which were actually useful. after G dropped support for large chunks of code I dropped the idea. Lemmy will stay basically same. Internet will move to texted voicemail recordings with bad transcriptions.
