Google+ was so weird, for a considerable amount of time it was invite only, you needed some form of connection to get in – turns out this wasn’t great as they assumed it would be. I can only assume that is the reason they pulled a massive U-turn and decided to foist it upon anyone and everyone after the fact, which, it would appear, was also a bad idea.
It had some cool features, like how you could group/rank who you were following. It was just missing users
I think the best allegory I saw was someone trying to get into an exclusive club with a really long line. They finally get in and the place is empty so it sucks
I’m wondering if Bluesky is doing the same thing to itself
Google+ was the home of the online TableTop RPG scene out of whatever reason. We used hangouts for videochats back in the day, because you could directly stream them to YT, which was also favoured by the RPG Streamers at the time. It was wild, Google Hangouts frames were hot shit to portray your character stats and stuff. I really miss those times…
Anyone remembers wave? Or what was it called - was definitely ahead of its time.
Google+ didn’t work because they didn’t push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.
Yes - I’m being serious they didn’t push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn’t inadvertently leak your info.
If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we’d still have Google+ today.
Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we’d still have Google Talk. I don’t recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don’t have to use.
I don’t recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don’t have to use.
But… it is optional. Opt-out, sure, but optional nonetheless. I have disabled it on my work phone.
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+)
Core memory unlocked. I don’t even remember what Wave was supposed to be, but people treated it like it was the Second Coming.
Lemmy is still going to be here because it’s not a Google product.
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.
Google did write golang and Google likes killing everything it touches Lemmy is written in go…
Is it now? Github says it’s Rust at 80%. And a layer of rust is a good protection again further rust 😃
This is not how rust works, rust is blooming and eating ever deeper. Green Copper-Patina on the other hand is a protective layer.
