Eugen RochkoGoogle+ shutting down is kind of large
Josh RoseI 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?
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