Fediverse

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.

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

It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.

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.

Google mismanaged the shit out of it, which is a shame, because it really was a good platform.

I think the biggest miss Google had was with Google Wave. It was way ahead of its time, and absolutely crashed and burned at launch because of the invite-only model.

I bought a Google OnHub router, which was amazing. It was marketed as the most "future-proof" router at the time. Then Google made Google WiFi mesh routers around a year later, and OnHub was never marketed or mentioned again. Now, in addition to my already concerning privacy issues around Google services, I don't trust that they will release quality, supported products.

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.

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

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.

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

I think a big help to avoid this is if any "official" apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any single instance.
Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named "mastodon" available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to "Make it easier for the normies".

The fact that I dont' even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/gargon@mastodon.social is probably a good sign too.

The whole system is crap.

We should have gotten something that's actually decentralised and P2P like Aether.

What we got was centralised servers + a glorified RSS feed that enables even more echo chambers than Reddit did... The fediverse is doomed to remain irrelevant imho

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.

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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Wow, so many products I didn't realize were dead. I remember when they were pushing Duo.

Some of these are fucking wild

Killed over 1 year ago, Cameos on Google allowed celebrities and other public figures to record video responses to the most common questions asked about them which would be shown to users in Google Search results. It was over 3 years old.

Imagine googling "does Bruno Mars is gay?" and Bruno Mars himself shows up to tell you if he is or doesn't

Google Reader. Never forget...

This is extremely interesting. So many products that I've never heard of and many of them were actually around for 6-12 years before being axed or coming up on death soon. A lot of these I had heard of and even used occasionally over the years and I didn't realize were gone now.