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I'm still wishing the internet could go back to how it was in the 90's so I'm hoping it will continue to look the same in 12 years.
I remember getting a few of my friends to try G+ with me, then getting in and realizing we were the only ones there. Feels like Lemmy already has more people than that ghost town ever did.
Facebook and Google was always about friends family and local before any random and stranger interaction becomes relevant.
Reddit and Lemmy is all about strangers. Oftentimes you dont even want people to know you or care about that. So userbase is way easier to create without feeling as if it was too small.
Facebook started locally and slowly created circles until the entire world found their friends and families and joined themselves
12 Years ago.. I've zero interested in Google+
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+)
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Probably merged with all the other ActivityPub frontends into a single, hyper-customizable mega-app.
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Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven't experienced much of either yet. There's tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I'm just not seeing it yet ¯\(ツ)/¯
The trick is to start posting interesting content. We all have to do our part for this to take off.
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Geez it's just so incredibly sad to me that facebook has survived this long and even THRIVED while probably being the worst version of what they do, and being the most evil doing it
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Lemmy will be a dinosaur like hacker news and we'll all use a bunch of different softwares to connect to the fediverse
I just get never get any of my friends to use Google +. It was just me and a few of my tech nerd friends.
Any hype it had was killed by the gated access that required invites. Plus, Facebook didn't have your racist uncle on it yet. It was still fun.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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