Not so sure I like the title here (all of us have been long-dead, we all know, but only a dozen walking wounded left...
Not so sure I like the title here (all of us have been long-dead, we all know, but only a dozen walking wounded left in town?)
Round and round she goes, where it stops (and when) is "uncertain", the thing that causes anxiety. Well, as people smirk and say "I told you it's dead" (since 2012), a whole lot of people seemed to notice when G+ blinked out yesterday. Yes, entirely out or disconnected, in many spots.
https://9to5google.com/2019/01/10/google-plus-outage-january-2019/
Round and round she goes, where it stops (and when) is "uncertain", the thing that causes anxiety. Well, as people smirk and say "I told you it's dead" (since 2012), a whole lot of people seemed to notice when G+ blinked out yesterday. Yes, entirely out or disconnected, in many spots.
https://9to5google.com/2019/01/10/google-plus-outage-january-2019/
This post has 12 +1s. I really hope no one else will like it.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing where Google+ was dead, was the revenue. The only place where Google+ was a ghost town was the ads in the stream.
ReplyDeletePier Luigi Fiorini Hah, I thought the same thing. Now it's lucky 13. We're all ghosts! :))
ReplyDeleteSonne Cornelia Agreed, for the "don't be evil" company, they sure treat their most loyal customers/users awfully badly. (And it's not like they see zero revenue, really; we are served ads, our data gets sold, and we use and link to YouTube, which generates them big bucks. So...) Only my opinion - YMMV - but waiting on something which will "maybe" start a presence this year might leave you without anything meanwhile, without a backup &/or plans. Many agree with you about MeWe (though it has some thriving ex-G+ photography groups) Many are finding it very comfortable at Pluspora, with its big & growing #gplusrefugee population, and a simple but efficient platform for sharing words, photos, articles, music vids, etc., like "here". But no chat, no great phone app. Like MeWe, it's big on organizing, seeing/being seen via contacts and hashtags. But MeWe (the "walled garden") has "issues", a whole other topic. Pluspora is nice for many ex-plussers, and some like the Fediverse & Federation "pods" which are both "decentralized" (nodes) and some offer advanced tools for bloggers &/or easy hook-ins to other allied networks. Nothing replicates G+ for having it all in one place, with groups, communities, public posts, personal albums & collections, etc. Flickr excels in photo gallery layout and photographer presence, but isn't about "social" much.
ReplyDeleteFacebook does offer it all - at the price of giving your soul, dna, wisdom teeth, and privacy, to sell to the highest bidder. Some don't mind, and maybe "like" it anyway.
Ch-ch-ch-changes! And choices. Good to go about it mindfully, IMO, while lots of others are settling in and it's like a new era of newbies emigrating from the home from which we're being evicted. Bad Gplus! In the end, Google is uber-evil. :(
That's been the narrative the whole time ("Nobody uses G+! It's a dead platform! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!") so it shouldn't really be a surprise.
ReplyDeleteI figured something like this would happen when they announced they'd be shutting down bits and pieces along the way instead of all at once. And it's probably why the date got moved up. Someone realized that when they shut down component 27 the whole house of cards will collapse.
ReplyDeletePier Luigi Fiorini I me myself makes 36 of the dozen
ReplyDeleteIt looked like circles, profile and communities was still working - at some point it may switch to that setup, which will allow for data extraction but not for actual ease of use.
ReplyDeleteFrom a Google-oriented blog it's a weird narrative attitude, that's for sure.
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