#googleplus — Public Fediverse posts
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I've got some bad news for the people who have followed me from #GooglePlus to the #Fediverse via #Diaspora -- You're the main reason why I stuck with #Friendica instances but the devs have rendered the latest version pretty much unusable as of tonight. I'm going to have to abandon all Friendica at this point and simply bid you all a sad farewell then migrate to the exceedingly better Mastodon. I've got my eye on Beige Party but you guys also know that the Israel issue is going to be problematic in terms of finding a Gaza-friendly instance. I'll have to keep shopping around til I find one.
Adieu. Luvz you.Edited to add, on the following day, and looking at elements that are loaded when I change page--it's the ongoing loading of links to YouTube with Google that screw up the paging, on top of the autorefresh that takes place even when Settings has autorefresh turned OFF that are the main culprits, and that includes when YouTube posts all launch into auto-play with no way of turning that shit off.
The second that one tries to click on what's on the screen, the screen jumps to something else and one constantly is clicking on the wrong things, producing screens one doesn't want/never intended to click on. This is also despite Settings which put a limit on how many posts are displayed by page. Spending so much time trying to backtrack to where one wanted to go is nearly impossible when this persistently happens.
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I've got some bad news for the people who have followed me from #GooglePlus to the #Fediverse via #Diaspora -- You're the main reason why I stuck with #Friendica instances but the devs have rendered the latest version pretty much unusable as of tonight. I'm going to have to abandon all Friendica at this point and simply bid you all a sad farewell then migrate to the exceedingly better Mastodon. I've got my eye on Beige Party but you guys also know that the Israel issue is going to be problematic in terms of finding a Gaza-friendly instance. I'll have to keep shopping around til I find one.
Adieu. Luvz you.Edited to add, on the following day, and looking at elements that are loaded when I change page--it's the ongoing loading of links to YouTube with Google that screw up the paging, on top of the autorefresh that takes place even when Settings has autorefresh turned OFF that are the main culprits, and that includes when YouTube posts all launch into auto-play with no way of turning that shit off.
The second that one tries to click on what's on the screen, the screen jumps to something else and one constantly is clicking on the wrong things, producing screens one doesn't want/never intended to click on. This is also despite Settings which put a limit on how many posts are displayed by page. Spending so much time trying to backtrack to where one wanted to go is nearly impossible when this persistently happens.
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Why did Google+ fail despite Google's massive resources?
📉 ate to the market
📱 Weak user engagement
🔒 Privacy issues
🌐 Couldn't beat Facebook's network effect
Read the full story and startup lessons👇
https://startuporigins.xyz/why-did-google-plus-fail/
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Why did Google+ fail despite Google's massive resources?
📉 ate to the market
📱 Weak user engagement
🔒 Privacy issues
🌐 Couldn't beat Facebook's network effect
Read the full story and startup lessons👇
https://startuporigins.xyz/why-did-google-plus-fail/
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heute vor 15 Jahren: Google+ startet ...
#vor15jahren #socialnetwork #googleplus
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Googles-Angriff-auf-Facebook-1269584.html -
Seems like those days would last forever.
#GooglePlus was the future and believed in it! But I am happy we have Mastodon and no big company that went IPO can take our freedoms away!
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Seems like those days would last forever.
#GooglePlus was the future and believed in it! But I am happy we have Mastodon and no big company that went IPO can take our freedoms away!
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New server, new #introduction
Joined Mastodon during the #GooglePlus exodus, but didn't dig in until 2023.
I'm an #ActuallyAutistic father of two. I help authors manage their #WordPress websites, live events, and newsletters and work with local #MutualAid groups to build online platforms. I love to read #scifi, play #videogames, take #photos of #fungi, and attend #concerts.
Most of my toots will be about #photography, #tech, #SocialJustice, and #art with a sprinkling of #food and #plants.
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New server, new #introduction
Joined Mastodon during the #GooglePlus exodus, but didn't dig in until 2023.
I'm an #ActuallyAutistic father of two. I help authors manage their #WordPress websites, live events, and newsletters and work with local #MutualAid groups to build online platforms. I love to read #scifi, play #videogames, take #photos of #fungi, and attend #concerts.
Most of my toots will be about #photography, #tech, #SocialJustice, and #art with a sprinkling of #food and #plants.
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@stefan @scottjenson Indeed, flexible groups, both private and public, open en closed, seem to have a great potential. (a potential #GooglePlus never managed to sell, but I tend to think this has rather random, non-substantial reasons)
In any case, the popular format of #friends (#facebook) and connections (#LinkedIn) is hard to visualize or define as "circles" really: they constitute a personally unique set of connections that may be displayed much more like neurons, instead.
No matter how complicated to visually imagine, friend-connections (and their popular #platform implementation) make intuitive sense to people and people like to have friends. Most people won't make friends in the current #Fediverse, however.
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@stefan @scottjenson Indeed, flexible groups, both private and public, open en closed, seem to have a great potential. (a potential #GooglePlus never managed to sell, but I tend to think this has rather random, non-substantial reasons)
In any case, the popular format of #friends (#facebook) and connections (#LinkedIn) is hard to visualize or define as "circles" really: they constitute a personally unique set of connections that may be displayed much more like neurons, instead.
No matter how complicated to visually imagine, friend-connections (and their popular #platform implementation) make intuitive sense to people and people like to have friends. Most people won't make friends in the current #Fediverse, however.
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In der #edeka app kann man in der Prospekt ansicht den "Katalog teilen"
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In der #edeka app kann man in der Prospekt ansicht den "Katalog teilen"
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@kristinHenry depends on your definition of #SciArt l do miss posting #SciCom but it's never been the same since #GooglePlus shutdown.
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@kristinHenry depends on your definition of #SciArt l do miss posting #SciCom but it's never been the same since #GooglePlus shutdown.
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Part three of my three-part introduction is finally up: What can you expect from my blog and what other services will my blog replace?
https://pygospa.codeberg.page/posts/blogging-since-2001-ish/
#introduction #introductions #blogosphere #boycottbigtech #unplugamazon #unplugmeta #unplugtrump #facebook #googleplus #instagram #wordpresscom #goodreads #trakttv #letterboxd #backloggd #discogs #boardgamegeeks #archive #oldposts
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Part three of my three-part introduction is finally up: What can you expect from my blog and what other services will my blog replace?
https://pygospa.codeberg.page/posts/blogging-since-2001-ish/
#introduction #introductions #blogosphere #boycottbigtech #unplugamazon #unplugmeta #unplugtrump #facebook #googleplus #instagram #wordpresscom #goodreads #trakttv #letterboxd #backloggd #discogs #boardgamegeeks #archive #oldposts
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I hope...wherever he is, that Vic Gundotra ('Father' of Google+) is having a nice day!
It was probably one of the last 'good' Google products.
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I hope...wherever he is, that Vic Gundotra ('Father' of Google+) is having a nice day!
It was probably one of the last 'good' Google products.
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Panic?
Oh... kay #Google !Dear deep #Privacy watchers:
I don't understand half of this, & generally avoid Google products if I can; don't do cloud, and stay un-logged in when possible.
I haven't enjoyed/respected Google since the genocide of the beloved #GooglePlus community, and the repeal of #DontBeEvil ...
BUT... even as a non-paranoid, non-Google-platform user who studies #media & #words ... Is this not ominous?
#technology #tracking #data #PID #security #icloud #telemetry
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Panic?
Oh... kay #Google !Dear deep #Privacy watchers:
I don't understand half of this, & generally avoid Google products if I can; don't do cloud, and stay un-logged in when possible.
I haven't enjoyed/respected Google since the genocide of the beloved #GooglePlus community, and the repeal of #DontBeEvil ...
BUT... even as a non-paranoid, non-Google-platform user who studies #media & #words ... Is this not ominous?
#technology #tracking #data #PID #security #icloud #telemetry
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感谢 神楽坂雯麗 在我这年的生日通过我的女装社群加入申请~ 这是一个美妙开始。那时候社群还只有 93 人呢ww。也确实「开启新大陆之门」了（
#GooglePlus （13年前） -
和 神楽坂萌绫 认识 10 周年！ #GooglePlus
2015年12月13日 - 2025年12月13日
其实不止十年了哦～～(/ω＼) -
13年前的这一天，#GooglePlus 上，一位穿裙子的可爱姐姐 神楽坂雯麗 关注了我，使我的世界线变动了一点。
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Google+ arşivimden 2012 yılındaki o paylaşımın görüntüsü. ツ
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@[email protected] My first post on Pixelfed. I‘ll start with older photos that were once in my #googleplus public album and will then see how I‘ll continue from there.
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Randomly remembered this Google+ -article about bragging rights from 2012.
That so many (seemingly: the writer said they'd gone through "hundreds of profiles" to find 50 with cool stories) had such singular stories such as "invented hashtags", really sells how the platform never reached the masses.
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Ironically enough I hit 15k on #GooglePlus about a week ago in 2013. This is the biggest following I've had since. I sure can pick a #SocialMedia site, huh? Jay, quit kicking people off the lifeboat. I don't wanna shut out the lights on yet another one.
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Found my 21-digit profile ID so I could try to retrieve my Google Plus out of the Internet Archive. Found some of my friends, but the archive missed me.
All the data Google keeps on me against my wishes, but they deleted that. Oh well.
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Found my 21-digit profile ID so I could try to retrieve my Google Plus out of the Internet Archive. Found some of my friends, but the archive missed me.
All the data Google keeps on me against my wishes, but they deleted that. Oh well.
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@nyquildotorg I loved the Ripples feature that early #GooglePlus had!
It was very neat to see it ripple through communities with reshares, and occasionally was a great way to find and tap directly into new audiences.
It probably also could be a privacy nightmare 😂
Early introductory example video of Google Ripples in action on Google Plus
Being able to scrub through the timeline and watch the post spread out to other people, with the size of the circles representing how big an audience it reached, and then being able to click on them to see the other circles it reached through them, filtering down deeper and deeper recursively. Getting an overview of the biggest 'influencers', languages, and stats like longest chain length, average shares per hour, and longest chain; I don't think I've seen a similar set of features since.
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@nyquildotorg I loved the Ripples feature that early #GooglePlus had!
It was very neat to see it ripple through communities with reshares, and occasionally was a great way to find and tap directly into new audiences.
It probably also could be a privacy nightmare 😂
Early introductory example video of Google Ripples in action on Google Plus
Being able to scrub through the timeline and watch the post spread out to other people, with the size of the circles representing how big an audience it reached, and then being able to click on them to see the other circles it reached through them, filtering down deeper and deeper recursively. Getting an overview of the biggest 'influencers', languages, and stats like longest chain length, average shares per hour, and longest chain; I don't think I've seen a similar set of features since.
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Am I the only one for whom #Microsoft pushing #AI into every single product is the same, but absolutely the same scenario like #GooglePlus was? With the expected flop at the end as well?
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Am I the only one for whom #Microsoft pushing #AI into every single product is the same, but absolutely the same scenario like #GooglePlus was? With the expected flop at the end as well?
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@chmod777 for me it was during the sunsetting of #GooglePlus.
Looking at the join date of @[email protected] I've been here since 16 Sept 2018 -
@chmod777 for me it was during the sunsetting of #GooglePlus.
Looking at the join date of @[email protected] I've been here since 16 Sept 2018 -
GooglePlus would make more sense as part of the fediverse rather than anything else.
Luckily there are better things for us now like Mastodon and NodeBB!
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I wrote about SPECT a long time ago when I was doing #SciCom on #GooglePlus, which I converted to a blog.
https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/
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I wrote about SPECT a long time ago when I was doing #SciCom on #GooglePlus, which I converted to a blog.
https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/
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It's been a while since I saw a #GooglePlus logo!
I always wore looked that service - the concept of circles was really nicely done I thought - but I guess not enough people felt the same way at the time ... -
It's been a while since I saw a #GooglePlus logo!
I always wore looked that service - the concept of circles was really nicely done I thought - but I guess not enough people felt the same way at the time ... -
CW: ActivityPub / Fedi server nitty gritty
@mattgrayyes #Friendica (which has a shared ancestor with #Streams) can also be worth looking into. It's a bit more #Diaspora* / #GooglePlus / Facebook-like.
It has some media type filters available, as well as more fine-grained contact type filters, and supposedly can also have multiple profiles per account, though I couldn't quickly figure that out in my old test account.#Hubzilla is also quite elaborate, but I never really got into it for the same reason Friendica never fully grabbed me; it felt too clunky and too unfocused in its features. That's what eventually made Mastodon my primary social media account after Google+ shut down; it was the most polished one, and had a more streamlined focus, as well as the more active mobile app ecosystem. I eventually settled on a #GlitchSoc fork instance because of its additional features such as formatting and longer post lengths, though nowadays I would also consider #Hometown because of its Article support.
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CW: ActivityPub / Fedi server nitty gritty
@mattgrayyes #Friendica (which has a shared ancestor with #Streams) can also be worth looking into. It's a bit more #Diaspora* / #GooglePlus / Facebook-like.
It has some media type filters available, as well as more fine-grained contact type filters, and supposedly can also have multiple profiles per account, though I couldn't quickly figure that out in my old test account.#Hubzilla is also quite elaborate, but I never really got into it for the same reason Friendica never fully grabbed me; it felt too clunky and too unfocused in its features. That's what eventually made Mastodon my primary social media account after Google+ shut down; it was the most polished one, and had a more streamlined focus, as well as the more active mobile app ecosystem. I eventually settled on a #GlitchSoc fork instance because of its additional features such as formatting and longer post lengths, though nowadays I would also consider #Hometown because of its Article support.
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@prex Sit down, get a snack and a drink, for this will be long.I wish someone made the federated G+
"The federated G+" was literally made before Google+ itself.diaspora*
Have you ever heard of diaspora*?
If not, let me take you back to 2010. Back then, it first came out that Facebook was spying on its users and selling their private data. In spring, four students asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding for an ambitious project: a free, open-source, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentralised alternative to Facebook named diaspora*.
The word spread like wild fire. Tech media jumped upon it. Non-tech mass media jumped upon it. These four guys were about to develop a Facebook killer! Of the requested $12,000, they got over $200,000.
They started working in May, 2010. In October, they presented a first very early alpha version of diaspora* that could only run on Macs as servers. It would take the likely suicide of the project founder, the replacement of the whole development team and several years to even release a first beta. To this day, diaspora* did not have a 1.0 stable release.
In general, diaspora* did not become the huge, super-popular Facebook killer. It always remained obscure.Google+
Then came Google. They saw that people wanted to move away from Facebook, but they thought they had nowhere to go. And Google wanted to exploit the self-same source of income as Facebook. So they launched Google+.
Google+ was a blatant, full-on, all-out rip-off of diaspora*. The circles that almost everyone "knows" were invented by Google? diaspora*'s aspects, stolen by Google. Google's entire new corporate UI design with the black navigation bar at the top? diaspora*'s design.Like, cirlces? So ahead of its times!
Again: diaspora* had Google+'s circles before Google+ had circles. diaspora* has aspects, and Google stole them and named them circles.
Google got away with it easily. Nobody knew diaspora*. Nobody knew what diaspora* looks like. And diaspora* itself had other things to take care of than a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against a power-mongering Silicon Valley teracorporation or even a C&D against Google.The slow death of diaspora*
But seriously, diaspora* isn't worth looking at nowadays. It may have released a 0.9 beta last year, skipping 0.8 altogether. But it's withering away.
Shortly before New Year's Eve 2024, three major diaspora* pods shut down. According to one statistics website, diaspora* lost more than half its user accounts within three days. For April 1st, 2025, the shutdown of diasp.org, one of the biggest and most important pods, has been announced. JoinDiaspora, the old lighthouse pod, has been gone for quite a while now.
But diaspora*'s issues lie not only in its slow development, but also in its design decisions. It's beautiful, but it's minimalist to the point of being lack-lustre. Also, diaspora* does not support ActivityPub and never will. It only supports its own protocol. The developers have explicitly decided against supporting ActivityPub because Fediverse projects don't "implement ActivityPub", they "implement Mastodon". This, however, also means that diaspora* cannot connect to most of the Fediverse by far.Friendica
But: There's even better than diaspora* and Google+ that's free, open-source, decentralised and federated. And it was there before Google+. I'm not kidding.
Remember, it took four students, $200,000 of crowd-funding and five months (May to October, 2010) to create a first, very unfinished preview of diaspora*.
But the same year, it took one developer and protocol designer with some three decades of experience (@Mike Macgirvin 🖥️), zero crowd-funding and only four months (March to July, 2010) to create a first, very fleshed-out and useable release of something initially called Mistpark.
At this point, when the four diaspora* creators were still tinkering, Mistpark was already more powerful than both diaspora* and Mastodon are today. It already had everything a social network needs. It had diaspora*'s aspects before diaspora* had aspects and long before Google+ had circles; only it called them lists. And Mistpark's lists were diaspora*'s aspects and Google+'s circles on coke.
Since early 2012, Mistpark has been known as Friendica (official website). Since mid-January, 2025, it is the primary go-to alternative to Facebook in the Fediverse. And it has continuously been fully federated with Mastodon for as long as Mastodon has been around. Since January, 2016. Again, I'm not kidding.Friendica's descendants
But Mike didn't stop there. He went on and improved the same concept further and further by forking his own creations and advancing them technologically.
In 2011, he invented the concept of nomadic identity (something that Bluesky claims to have invented much later, but has yet to prove to be functional) to make identites more resilient against server shutdown, and he created another all-new communication protocol named Zot (today known as Nomad) for that purpose.
In 2012, he handed Friendica over to the community and forked it into something called Red, later the Red Matrix. It was the first not only decentralised, but nomadic social server application in the world. In 2015, it was redesigned, vastly expanded in features and renamed Hubzilla (official website).
To this day, Hubzilla is the one most powerful and feature-rich Fediverse server application. It is not a vague concept or in early development; instead, it has been a rock-solid multi-purpose daily driver for longer than Mastodon has been around.
Another one of its key features is what's the second-most advanced and fine-grained permissions system in the Fediverse, something that Mastodon doesn't have at all. Its privacy groups are diaspora*'s aspects or Google+'s circles on coke and 'roids because you can do things with them that are impossible even on Friendica, much less diaspora* or Google+, not to mention what Mastodon calls lists. They aren't called privacy groups for nothing.
In 2018, Mike handed the development of Hubzilla over to the community to concentrate on the further advancement of Zot. This led to:- Osada (2018, discontinued in 2019)
- Zap (2018, discontinued in 2022)
- another Osada (2019, discontinued later in 2019)
- yet another Osada (2020, discontinued in 2022)
- Redmatrix 2020 (2020, discontinued in 2022)
- Mistpark 2020 a.k.a. Misty (2020, discontinued in 2022)
- Roadhouse (2021, discontinued in 2022)
- (streams) (code repository, 2021)
- Forte (code repository, 2024)
Except for the first Osada, all of them were or still are nomadic. Except for Zap until some point in 2019, all of them supported or still support ActivityPub. And they all had or still have an advanced permissions system which, at least on (streams) and Forte, even slightly surpasses Hubzilla's. Their access lists are at least on par with Hubzilla's privacy groups.Finally
If you're looking for a decentralised Google+ drop-in replacement, that'd be diaspora*. But diaspora* is dying, and it will never federate with Mastodon.
If you're also interested in something that's even better than Google+, check Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams).
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Google+ #GooglePlus #diaspora* #Mistpark #Friendika #Friendica #RedMatrix #Hubzilla #Osada #Zap #Mistpark2020 #Misty #Redmatrix2020 #Roadhouse #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Lists #Aspects #Circles #PrivacyGroups #AccessLists -
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@CyberpunkLibrarian that still exists? I remember it was an alternative being built during the demise of #GooglePlus, and IIRC it was drawing too many right-wingers for my liking, though I could be misremembering.
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@CyberpunkLibrarian that still exists? I remember it was an alternative being built during the demise of #GooglePlus, and IIRC it was drawing too many right-wingers for my liking, though I could be misremembering.
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You know what is another thing I miss from #GooglePlus?
Being able to preview the snippet for links before posting, and the ability to select which of the page images to accompany the snippet. Especially if it would be combined with an optional alt text for the snippet media.
Yes, I know I could also just upload a screenshot or manually download and attach the relevant image, but this would feel a lot more streamlined.
#mastoDev #mastodon