Google will shut down Currents, the work-focused Google Plus replacement

' It’ll wind down starting in 2023 and be replaced with Spaces’

With *what*?! Any people here who used to be G+ refugees back in the day? I know there are a few. And now we're wondering when Spaces will be "sunsetted”.

#Google #GPlus #Currents #Spaces #ThisTooShallPass

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/10/22928042/google-plus-replacement-wind-down-currents-spaces

Glad to see forward-looking businesses keeping up with the times & planning ahead. #ads #socialMedia #OurGooblyMasters #GPlus

Mit einer knappen halben Stunde Verspätung schon bei der Bereitstellung des ICE in Dortmund jetzt auf dem Weg nach Nürnberg zum Treffen von Ex-#GPlus'ern und #Okuna-Usern auf der #Whiskymesse #SingleMalt.

Spent a lot of time rescuing 20 yrs of data & photos this week.

Much of my 2010s photography was trustingly shared with #EvilGoogle #GPlus (for 8 years) and then wiped out - along with myriad communities, groups, collections - April 2, 2019.

Happily I 'mirrored' some of my most popular collections on my own site. Here's a favorite: Cuba.

http://www.fenichel.com/cuba

Click/tap on photos &/or text links for a (free, un-tracked) self-tour around Havana, Cienfuegos, and Hemingway's home.

#Fenfotos

RT @doctorow
Hey, remember the first #enshittification of #Google, when every single Google app got #GPlus awkwardly crammed into it because individual googlers’ bonuses were calculated based on how and whether they got people to use G+?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-ceo-tells-employees-it-needs-all-hands-on-deck-to-test-bard.html

Hey, remember the first #enshittification of #Google, when every single Google app got #GPlus awkwardly crammed into it because individual googlers’ bonuses were calculated based on how and whether they got people to use G+?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-ceo-tells-employees-it-needs-all-hands-on-deck-to-test-bard.html

@BeckieSueDalton let's hope Collections and Groups will get added soon; two features I still miss from the #GPlus days :)

But yeah, of the various networks I tried out after G+'s demise, Mastodon is the one I still visit daily.
@briannawu

My most memorable DM on #Twitspace was with a quasi-friend from #Gplus who turned out to be a TERF.

Wondering how she's enjoying all the free speech. I could see it going either way, really...

#GPlus felt like home, but it was the kind of home where your parents are always imposing bad ideas on you for your own good.

#Facebook never felt like home, even though it was my first experience with social media and a place where I reconnected with a lot of people from 2 decades earlier. It was more like... I dunno... an awkward family party.

#Twitter never felt like home. How can you feel at home in a place where every room is a broom-closet?

#LinkedIn is just evil, and always has been.

Last week on here was 'early days Internet' energy, this week it's feeling like early Google Plus energy. e.g. majority of posts are still about the platform. Hopefully by next week we can get to early Twitter energy?
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #mastodon #gplus #googleplus

Last week on here was 'early days Internet' energy, this week it's feeling like early Google Plus energy. e.g. majority of posts are still about the platform. Hopefully by next week we can get to early Twitter energy?
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #mastodon #gplus #googleplus

People is now moving to Hive.
More of the same.

I don't think I'm going to open more accounts in corporate environments.

#Gplus ending, #Facebook politics interference and now the #Twitter thing has convinced me of the inconvenience of that.

#Mastodon or something like it is the way forward, now or later.

Get out of the wheel.

After #GPlus shut down, there was an attempt to create a new and friendly social network. It was called #OpenBook, but Facebook's lawyers forced them to change the name and it became #Okuna. It had to be stopped of financial reasons. Now I find a few of my former bubble here and please boost so I might find more of them again!

@allandaros @funkaoshi I have been watching #bonfire as another #gplus -ish mode of conversation and still in the #activitypub network. Still needs some baking though.

https://bonfirenetworks.org/

Oh look, it's my old #GPlus buddy @3DBigBoxGames :D
Welcome aboard!

@ChrisWere as someone with a low-end laptop, I liked the idea of Stadia. Unfortunately the monthly subscription wasn't something that fit my budget. In hindsight I kinda wished I had, because all the refunds sound lovely. xD
As for a title for your podcast, how about something like "(Thought-share / Share a thought) with Chris Were"?
One of the positive things of the Fediverse indeed is the bit more thoughtful comments. For instance compared to Instagram it feels less like a circlejerk where people just comment to get comments back, or otherwise promote their own account.
In a way it feels rather like the early and late #GooglePlus, but without the risk / guarantee that Google will just pull the plug. There are some things I wish would be added though, most notably:

• • consistent formatting support across protocols, or at least better fallbacks. This list being one example of that. On #glitchSoc I can use markdown to get a HTML-formatted list with bulleted list items. On plain #Mastodon however the whole list semantics get lost, and to a significant portion of users it wouldn't be clear that it was actually meant as a list. So, as a compromise I have to try to remember to add a manual bullet list character (•) so that it will at least appear as a list on non-formatting-supporting platforms. On others however I'll now likely have two leading bullets, and it'll likely get pronounced by TTS engines.I rather wish that the markdown gets sent and received as plain text by the platforms that don't support HTML formatting, rather than the HTML-formatted output which then gets outright stripped on the display end. Content-warning support between Mastodon and #Friendica is a similar thing.
• • migration of posts / #NomadicIdentity. It's great that we can migrate our follows and followers and various lists between #Mastodon instances. However, the thing I care about the most, my history of posts, would unceremoniously get left behind on the server. This isn't much of an issue if you are just moving servers because you like the community or features of another server better, as people can still access your older (public/unlisted) posts, but it is a loss when you migrate because the former server is getting shut down. I know that some Fediverse protocols do offer post migration, or even auto-mirroring, through nomadic identities, most notably those using the #Zot6 (or #Zap it's called now, I think?), but it'd be nice if Mastodon (which for better or for worse still feels like the leading platform of the fediverse) would also implement this, and if there was better support for migrating between these different platforms.
• • better visibility controls. It'd be nice if I could limit some posts to just a list of users, without having to tag them individually (and thus have it treated as a DM rather than a regular timeline post). Again, this is more of a Mastodon specific limitation; #Diaspora* and Friendica (iirc) most notably do support this already, with Diaspora*'s 'aspects' probably being closest to #GPlus's 'circles' feature.
• • 'Collections'. This was probably my favourite feature of Google Plus. Being able to group your posts under topics without having to rely on hashtags. You could add a separate header image for the collection as well as a description, both of which were nice additions, but the killer aspect of it to me was that you could specify if people would automatically follow that Collection when they'd follow your account. And like-wise, I could unfollow specific collections from people I'd follow, or follow just individual ones of them without following everything they posted. This made it possible to follow just someone's Doctor Who posts, or to follow someone's generic posts without having to listen to their political ranting.Sure, Mastodon has the $userprofile/tagged/#hashtag filter (e.g. https://toot.cat/@FiXato/tagged/Collections), but that is limited to public posts, and only supports a single hashtag at a time. Plus, you have to remember to use the right hashtag every time for each of your #collections. It feels like a hack, a bodge, rather than a full-fledged feature.

As for some (hopefully regarded as constructive) feedback to your podcast: I felt like it repeated itself a couple of times, and could probably have been 5 – 10 minutes shorter (which, yes, is kinda ironic (?) criticism given the length of my post 😅). After the Stadia segment you had your closing segment, which then basically went on into a segment about the #Fediverse, which I feel like could easily have been an episode of its own. For something I access through my Mastodon feed, I think 10 – 15 minutes is kinda the sweet spot when it comes to maximum length. (Though this might be more of a client-specific thing, as I couldn't continue scrolling my feed on Fedilab while listening, whereas that might've been an option on the web interface.)

@pengfold
welcome :)
After the #GooglePlusExodus I joined #Diaspora, #Friendica and #Mastodon. The Diaspora* pod I was on has shut down since, and while Friendica feels closer to #GPlus, I feel more at home at #Mastodon.
Maybe just a matter of having better curated by Mastodon feed, but in general I find the content in the timelines here more wholesome, despite Friendica having better self-moderation features such as auto-content-warning.
(Though perhaps the option for posters to add their own #ContentWarnings has led to a culture of more self-consciousness about what people post, rather than expecting the recipients to do so?)

@natecull See NSTIC -- National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

"A Manhattan Project for Online Identity" (2011)
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-analysis-identity-privacy.html

The Google+ angle:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181220165659/https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-death/283685/

EFF's take:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/real-id-online-new-federal-online-identity-plan

Final plan (if still online):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110415230954/http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/NSTICstrategy_041511.pdf

My previous discussion:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ladfrombrad/comments/aazsbm/a_manhattan_project_for_online_identity_nstic/

#NSTIC #Identity #GooglePlus #GPlus #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState

@mudd0359 Welcome to Mastodon!

You might find other #Pluspora or #GooglePlus / #GPlus refugees by using those hashtags. You can enter a hashtag in Search and then pin the resulting stream to catch any mentions of it.

Post a brief introduction of yourself as well and pin it to your profile to help others find you.

I'm also https://diaspora.glasswings.com/u/dredmorbius

#Welcome

@a that is more like Google Plus's #Collections, which was introduced later (and imho too late) in its lifetime.
It's probably the feature I miss the most from #GooglePlus, and I've previously gone into more details about why I miss Google Plus's Collections

Being able to filter a profile based on a list of predefined hashtags on the author's profile was a step in the right direction, but it's still a far cry from what #GPlus Collections was.

There's still plenty of times I wish I could only follow someone's tech posts, while opting out of their shit posts.
(And no, filters are not a solution, because those don't work on a per-account basis, and rely too much on keywords.)

@celia