mysoulishome12 years ago. Wonder what Lemmy will look like in 12 years?
Lee Duna12 Years ago… I’ve zero interested in Google+
buycuriousIf Reddit can make it for 12+ years, I’m sure Lemmy can too!
YutopianistThat's what I'm thinking! As long as we can build our own positive reputation, I'm sure we'll make it!
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 😜
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when your bro accidentally sends you a pic that wasn’t meant for you #shorts #comedy #funny
TechnoguyficationRisky click of the day
almost watched a tik tok knockoff. that was close.
I don’t really get what the hate was for Google+, it was better than the alternative/competitor at the time (Facebook)
Poorly supported, forced integration with other google services, facebook was good enough TM for most.
debouncedand from what i remember, staying true to typical google fashion, they fucked it up by not opening up the "beta" when they had a critical mass forming behind it. then only to force everyone into having a profile a year or whatever later. lol, too late. i think most of us understood that anything associated with google is assumed to be a never-ending "beta", so no idea what they were thinking or waiting for.
I think it was definitely the super long beta period where you needed an invite killed it. I knew a ton of people who were interested that gave up
kaduThat’s easy to say now, but Orkut (another Google social network, mostly used in Brazil) also had a beta invite system… And that helped it grow tremendously. The secrecy and “status” of getting invited made people go wild - they would even sell invites.
The strategy can work. It’s just very timing sensitive.
I’m not sure if I’m mis-remembering, but I believe my first Gmail account was by invitation. It was pretty much just an email account back then
Correct, I got my account invite from The Screensavers show with Kevin Rose. They were giving them out randomly to viewers.
Orkut was young when Facebook access was still restricted to college kids only. Google+ was dumb. You’d get and then it was just tumble weeds.
Google+ forced itself on people. I didn’t want it so I stopped using my Gmail entirely. I imagine word of mouth caused people to avoid it.
And the ridiculous part on top of that is that it was the exact opposite situation at first. When it first launched, you had to be a friend of a friend of a Google employee to register or you weren’t getting in. It took me a about a month before a friend of mine studying CompSci at university with the kid of some Google employee was able to pass an invitation my way.
I get the purpose was to generate hype by making it seem “exclusive” like Facebook was in the early days, but it took way too long before the people who genuinely wanted to use it were allowed to openly register for it. It was like that for 3 months, and a lot of people who gave up on trying to get an invite lost interest after the initial buzz died down.
And then Google wasn’t satisfied with upsetting the people that wanted to use it, so they had to go and upset the people who didn’t want to use it by later forcing it on everyone with a Google account.
It’s kind of funny, isn’t this exactly what Meta is doing to everyone with an Instagram account? You have a shadow profile on Threads regardless if you signed up or not.
I wonder why the reaction is so different, maybe because they both are social media? Or maybe just good timing with the whole Twitter debaucle.
I think there is still concern. When Threads launched, the media was full of articles outlining commonly-stated concerns about privacy and the involuntary connection between Instagram and Threads.
The problem is that zoomers who are flocking to it in droves don’t seem to care about any of that. And I don’t think it’s due to ignorance, but probably more like generational defeatism.
Yes, there has for shure been a shift in the culture. Privacy doesn’t seem to be that big of a concern for most.
I’m not so sure it’s just the zoomers that are to blame, plenty of older people don’t seem to care either. But I do feel for the younger generation, having never known the freedom and joys of the pre-corporate internet. Then again, maybe ignorance is bliss after all.
Yea I was annoyed that they were making me sign up for google+ for my youtube account so I never tried it I just set it up so I could keep using youtube.
ConditionOverloadI liked it a lot, honestly. Was a very cool community and Google’s app for it was awesome. The web interface was great too.
It was good but it didn’t really add enough or solve an actual problem besides. At the time, there wasn’t as much negative sentiment around Facebook. The circles were a neat concept but too much work to use for the average user.
It’s strange to note that if Google had just casually worked on the feature, started gradually integrating it with YouTube etc, they might have beat insta to the punch and also really capitalized on Facebook hate. Instead they made one massive marketing blunder after another.
twistedtxbThe concept of who you chose to share your status was cumbersome. It at least not auntie or uncle friendly
I don’t remember what it was called? Spaces?
I don’t remember what it was called? Spaces?
Circles. It was a killer feature at the time, the idea of different feeds for different groups, all in one profile. Too bad there weren’t enough groups to make it useful.
Being able to share certain posts with everyone (including your parents/grandparents) vs just your friends vs your work colleagues was a brilliant feature that seems to have just been substituted with private group chats instead. Seriously when I was a teenager the amount of stuff I thought about posting but didn’t because it would appear for everyone…
Google wasn’t comfortable in letting it grow naturally over time. They tried really hard to push on people by combining it with other more popular google products when it didn’t really make sense (i.e. Youtube). Also, as a teen at the time google plus just felt nerdy and weird. It didn’t really feel like something they cool kids would use so no one used it.
For a while, Google bonuses were tied to social integration. That’s why you saw the huge influx of insanity.
Yeah that’s how I felt too. I remember being excited about g+, then I also remember aggressively turning off any association to g+ because no one was on it and it kept pushing it in my face. Come to think of it gmail was similar, invite only and that, but it wasn’t forced even at release and they made it look a lot nicer than what yahoo and hotmail had going on at the time.
FartsWithAnAccentGoogle mismanaged the shit out of it, which is a shame, because it really was a good platform.
crunchpasteIt was definitely much better than Facebook at the time. Especially the circles idea they implemented.
It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.
LucidlethargyI still miss Google plus so much… It had the most intelligent groups of people I’ve ever experienced on social media both then, and now.
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.
end0flineWell, not really the same thing but I saw this the other day. I think it is awesome, but that is probably only nostalgia talking. It is a geocities website for the current day!
Both Neocities and Yahoo! licking their lips over that name.
rikaxnipahI can believe that, honestly.
maegul (he/they)Related tech: small-tech.org
Black_GulamanSo, like p2p clients?
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 there 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.
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.
Track_ShovelI’m on a big blocking spree, but moslty for non English communities.
196 is fucking brilliant though
I also enjoy 196. The rest I block. So much femboy shit on Lemmy too.
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
DingDongBellBad publicity is still publicity
If they call it 4chan people will point to Beehaw as proof parts of Lemmy are “acceptable”
The launch was actually pretty cool then they started limiting accounts and tottally took all the steam out
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆I checked it out because I got early access but then never used it because nobody else was using it 🤷🏻♂️
Please tell me someone remembers Google wave and the insane amount people were paying on eBay for an invitation.
(Sorry, just randomly remember it when I saw Google+)
z3n0xCore memory unlocked. I don’t even remember what Wave was supposed to be, but people treated it like it was the Second Coming.
It was some sort of collaborative platform for people working on projects or something like that
MrNemobodyGoogle+ was too much of a copy of the existing social networks at the time.
I’m still a Google Reader orphan though.
dismalnow2013 was a terrible year for media consumption.
Google killed the only thing about Google that I had any sort of true feelings for. It was exactly what I wanted in a feed reader. It almost killed my affinity to read the news during my commutes.
It was the same year that The Onion stopped printing paper copies, too.
It was also the year The Hangover 3 was released at the request of nobody, but I digress.
RIP Google Reader.
I’ve seen the Hangover 1 a ton of times. I’ve never seen The Hangover 3.
Fuckin google+…
Lets not try to spill the salt while we get this thing going
Margot RobbieLemmy is still going to be here because it’s not a Google product.