• Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    The difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.

    But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.

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      7 months ago

      Google did what Google does

      I remember wrapping my head around “Google Wave” and being like “Hey that sounds nea–oh it’s gone already?”

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        If you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.

        I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.

        I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.

        The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I’ve ever really been a part of.

        It was wonderful ♥️

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          Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I’m still sad it’s gone

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          A wonderful product or a wonderful community? It sounds like you’re describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.

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            The platform was wonderful. Intuitive, powerful, everything every other platform was not. Google started killing it slowly long before it died, but in its heyday it was amazing.

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              I have to admit I mostly only used it for testing purposes. I worked on a product that integrated with it, and I remember it being frustrating to work with. I forget the details of what frustrated me about it, though.