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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[–] qzdyd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I also enjoyed Google+. I liked the app and the interface. The content was pretty good for a bit.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Lemmy is still going to be here because it's not a Google product.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] BeezKnuts@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

No one is more shocked that I am that this post got more than six votes lol

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The beauty of the Fediverse is that no single entity controls it... In 12 years, I'd wager we're still around.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and there will be 1000000s of different versions

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

10 of which will be enormous and will be the vast majority of what most users see.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

True. That's already happening now if you notice lemmy.world, mastodon.social, pixelfed.social, etc.

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[–] Dr_pepper_spray@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+

[–] flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's like how Reddit is I've read it, Lemmy is Let me tell you.. Think an excited person, "Lemmytellyousomething!!!"

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Oh I like that.

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[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I don't really get what the hate was for Google+, it was better than the alternative/competitor at the time (Facebook)

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was definitely much better than Facebook at the time. Especially the concept of circles that they implemented.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I kind of feel like a single Lemmy instance will ~~domonate~~ dominate and become the defacto instance that everyone just joins.

[–] ruben@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Since people post to channels that you can search for and subscribe to, there is no incentive for that to happen.

[–] CCL@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 2 years ago

unless one just feeds you tons of ads and harvests user data. That's one reason why Gab, which is a fork of Mastodon, was defederated from most of the 'verse before Gab just went ahead and turned federation off.

You could create a Lemmy instance that made it far less user friendly to connect to other communities, and "forced" other users to join its communities because 'that's where everyone is'. That's one of the reasons why there is so much fuss over how to handle threads.net when/if they turn on federation.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] josep@freiburg.social 3 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I wonder if civilization will last 12 years

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[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Omsorg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.

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