Josh Rose
Eugen RochkoGoogle+ shutting down is kind of large
I do hope they come to Mastodon and not yet another centralized silo 😇
tombert@Gargron The two-dozen people who still use Google+ should spread the word to move here!
Aerials@Gargron i hope it too!
cbrachyrhynchos@Gargron For me at least, the biggest feature of Google+ not available on Mastodon are communities. Tagging (which is barely used on Mastodon networks) isn't a replacement.
lucy🦆@cbrachyrhynchos @Gargron that's actually the main purpose of instances on the fediverse
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Max Kaehn@Gargron New features that would make Mastodon really attractive for that would be:
1. The ability to create a public or private “community” on a given instance, which a user on any instance could join (under the control of that community’s moderators) and post.
2. Longer-form posts composed in Markdown format, which would only show a snippet in the regular timeline but could expand into something bigger (taking up 2 columns in the regular UI).
1. The ability to create a public or private “community” on a given instance, which a user on any instance could join (under the control of that community’s moderators) and post.
2. Longer-form posts composed in Markdown format, which would only show a snippet in the regular timeline but could expand into something bigger (taking up 2 columns in the regular UI).
Sebastian@mithriltabby @Gargron You could call it groups, right?
@hinterwaeldler @Gargron Given that this is Mastodon, don’t we have to call the feature “Herds”? (And the appropriate collective noun for elephants during i18n.)
@mithriltabby @Gargron Herds! I love it! 👍
@Gargron I’m also seeing enthusiasm for G+’s Collections feature, where people can subscribe to one person’s collection rather than their entire feed. So having the ability to follow someone, but only see posts with at least one of a set of hashtags, could replicate that in Mastodon.
Mark Atwood ✅@Gargron they are more likely to come to Mastodon if Mastodon implements more enough of ActivityStreams to replicate the G+ experience. Otherwise they are going to Facebook, or maybe to MeWe.
Galápago555 ✅@Gargron Eugenio, we all know that Mastodon is the perfect plave for anyone looking for a safe haven. I bet they'll come.
Thomas Elmiger@Gargron I am already here 😀
cybik@Gargron i dunno, as an idea mastodon is nice, as an implementation it's fairly good, but it's missing some je-ne-sais-quoi.
valhalla@Gargron I'd think that #friendica is more suitable as a g+ replacement, as it's not a microblogging platform but more a general social one.
Now that it almost has ActivityPub support, that's just as good as joining mastodon, right?
StuartB
Luis Prof@Gargron Like a boss
Sydney “The Word” Falk 
Ondřej Pokorný@Gargron Let's get all G+ users on Mastodon. ;)
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Heurism [KNZK]@Gargron did you see that the average length of stay for G+ users had dropped to 5 secs?
Sneaking Mission@Gargron we’re all moving to peach now
Biason::Julio::new();@Gargron Google shutting down services is pretty damn common.
Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎@Gargron Is that the last big Google me-too project gone?
Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈@Gargron yet another failure of google at social networking, after orkut, waves and I may be forgetting some :)
Brian Pepple@Gargron: Yeah, a lot of Free Software developers I know use that as their primary social media site. Be interesting to see if they migrate to any other service or just ditch social media all together.
Dan Johansen
knzk forever 
@Gargron wait, so what happens to the whole thing about merging google+ and youtube accounts? cause i hated that.
@citrustwee That wasn't a thing for a few years now
@Gargron oh, shit. okay
Firlow 🌈
@citrustwee @Gargron That's been a thing you can kinda stop for a while, it just. kinda happened.
Tim W@Gargron is it, though?
"90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds"
rstevens 🐳💨✅@Gargron i like google+. nobody replies to me there. (sadface)
Khalid
some dude@Gargron the only thing I know g+ for is it’s where googlers went to bitch about google and then delete posts when they got popular
Mike Macgirvin ☸@Eugenio @Michael Vogel @Vi @0x1C3B00DA @valhalla We just have to resolve some of the fundamental differences between the two network styles. As we discovered in Osada (also a general social platform), microblogging sites are highly dependent on mentions for delivery and notification. The Facebook-style networks don't need or want this extra cruft.
Brandon@Gargron
That's how I learned about Mastodon.
That's how I learned about Mastodon.