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This is where the most discussion has been (serious and satirical) about when, where, and how big the switch will flip. Most (IMHO) are assuming-anticipating continued decrements and the clocks tend to run out at midnight, April 2, with our Cinderella world chariot quickly (?) returning to a pumpkin, and then no mas. Here's one of a few countdown clocks, for those asking. (Don't stare too long at the accident or into the eclipsing sun!) Seems to be that 1 April will be the day of watch parties, some documenting, and a whole lot of watching. As others have no idea ... Well, here's to us... All of us collectively who shared this lovely world. Originally shared by Michael Fenichel COUNTDOWN CLOCK - For clock watchers and nail-biters... Here's one of a few live countdown clocks, all - like some of the parties &/or deathwatches - assuming/guessing "the switch" is pulled at midnight (somewhere) . So most see April 1 as the "beginning of the end" ...

Limiting my goodbye-party posts here (with so many no-nonsense, no time participants.) But a reminder (doh!) - This is the end, my friend... The last full working weekend to clean up remains and do some last salvaging of a live G+. (But I've posted, and continue "until the end", some music posts of relevance, both publicly and to the "Lights out" community, where some party/wakes are.) #googleplus #gplusrefugees #googlecountdown #end #googleisevil

Notes from the (G+ and beyond) Field For all 6 who may read this. ;) With 11 days on the shut-down clock.... quiet time #1 First, I got a direct ("mandatory") email from Google+ today. (Wondering: did lawyers mandate this? Not shocking it's not just from good will!) G-PLUS EMAIL: "You’ve received this email because you have content in Google+ for your personal (consumer) account or a Google+ page you manage. This is a reminder that on April 2, 2019 we’re shutting down consumer Google+ and will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. Downloading your Google+ content may take time, so get started before March 31, 2019. No other Google products (such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive, YouTube) will be shut down as part of the consumer Google+ shutdown, and the Google Account you use to sign in to these services will remain. Note that photos and videos a...

Welcome to the Widget Watch... Originally shared by Michael Fenichel Check Your Calendars If you're reading this and don't know.... "Welcome to Google+, enjoy your stay." For anyone still here, who has lived in this wonderful community over the past 8 years, trusting that "don't be evil" Google would never callously or malevolently disrupt the way of life and vitality of its own community - much less destroy it altogether, with ever-decreasing notice and ever-increasing collateral damage, such as wiping out years of lives & data. The widget is going-going-gone, maybe by the time this is read, if it is read. The site is still up and - for the fist time in 8 years "they" are right - it's a ghost town! #thisisevil #googleplusRIP #googlepluswidget #gplusrefugees #socialmedia

Originally shared by Shelenn Ayres #signalflare We've only got a few weeks left on G+! Around the hyperverse and the fediverse, I can be found if you need some help #gplusrefugees :) https://wheretofind.me/@shelenn Friendica is built by the community for the community and has more features than G+ or FB! You control the user interface (how it looks for you), your content (how it works for you), and your privacy (how others see your content and connect with you). It replaces circles, collections, and communities "out of the box" but also integrates easily with other social media like blogs and Twitter. http://social.isurf.ca is on the latest release candidate. Come check it out! It's free and there are a great bunch of people connecting not only with each other on Friendica, but also with others throughout the Fediverse (Pluspora, Hubzilla, Mastodon and more) - all 2.7 million users and growing. You can move later to another node if you like or at some point even hos...

Originally shared by Shelenn Ayres #signalflare #gplusrefugees You can join many of us in the Fediverse with community forums, news feeds, collections, groups, and full integration with export to Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, and import/export mirror to Twitter and pump.io. No need to wait for features to be developed. Latest software release this month with a new release scheduled soon. We are the Free Social Network decentralized and federated with Diaspora, Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica, and more. We are 2.6 million strong and growing. There is no one single authority or company. We are not a walled garden. As long as users exist we all exist together as one. The power is in the hands of the users. No ads, no BS, no hate speech allowed. Follow the quick tips to get started.

From Group Google+ Help: Fourteen Point Two Million Served We Are Here To Help Others The following post was just entered at Google+ Help . It may or may not continue to live there. Perhaps it will be killed off. Striking down this post would of course directly contradict the basic and overarching mission of Google+ Help . We shall see. Anyway, I am claiming social victory. For this effort and several other kinds of online social engagement on this platform. Yesterday I did outreach to G+ India , N > 700K. Last year I reached G+ Voices Of Africa , N > 127K. I have truly completed outreach for G+ migration worldwide. Simply put, no one else begins to come close. In late January I posted essentially this same content to a major G+ social media platform group, N > 220K I think. The post was very quickly struck down by yet another troll moderator. There are lots of irrational and arbitrary anti-social troll moderators on this platform. Looks like I've collected pretty m...

Clarity, perhaps... "Don't be evil?" Hah! Originally shared by Michael Fenichel Make those plans for the afterlife! https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133?hl=en&authuser=0 #gplusrefugees #googleplus #googleplusrefugees #gplusmassmigration #gplus #googleisevil

New Intro Video from HyperSpace! Since the G+ API is off, these don't embed/display properly here, but here's the post associated with this video share: https://hyperspace.app/post/5c4f25bfee8e420006541fc9?asset=Skd6SohXV A good 'crash course' to get you started quickly: https://hyperspace.app/post/5c333972a50492000698cb8c?asset=rJjdYheM4 #gplusrefugees #ownyourcontent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIQCmuM3Cg

Failure of Communication: No mention of imminent Google+ shutdown on G+ About or App pages Google’s failures of communication on the G+ shutdown are staggering. Crickets, after initially promising: Over the coming months, we will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data._technology https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ And on December 12, 2018: over the coming months we will provide users with information to help them migrate off of G+. https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/FSzektSjjrQg This extends to the Google+ About page and Google+ App page in the Android store. Here’s today’s Internet Archive grab of the Google+ About page. “Discover amazing things.” https://web.archive.org/web/20190104232119/https://plus.google.com/about But not a mention that the service will be shut down in 111 days. Here’s today’s Internet Archive grab of the G+ App on the Android store. https://web.archive.org/web/201...

A quick tour and crash course of HyperSpace. The perfect place to migrate from Google+, in my opinion! #gplusrefugees #HyperSpace #communities #socialmedia https://alpha.hyperspace.app/post/5c333972a50492000698cb8c?asset=rJjdYheM4

Alternative assessments: Diaspora I've been a user since May of 2012, about a year after G+ launched. I'd been inactive for about 4 years prior to the G+ sunset announcement. First post: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1622938 Diaspora is not everything I'd want, but it seems a reasonable social home for now . I'm almost certainly going to make several of the federated platforms key parts, though not the core of my online presence. That will be a blog managed off of my desktop system itself via Git. I am using Mastodon, I have a Hubzilla profile, and plan on looking at Friendica. Solid and other options are things I plan to look at in future. Diaspora: the Good Community. The people I've most wanted to be able to stay in touch with from G+ seem to be headed to, or reachable from, Diaspora. Those I'm less interested in hearing from are hard to argue out of heading off to a vastly more racist, nationalist, fascist, and idiot-infested alternative. I m...

Hello! / ¡Hola! / Bonjour! / Ciao! 2019 Slowly winding down G+, manually deleting content. I gave up testing Dispora/Pluspora as engagement / numbers aren't there. Looks like MeWe is a winner, I've found a few high quality groups full of #gplusrefugees #g+orphans https://mewe.com/i/johnsoanes Also testing Friendica https://social.isurf.ca/profile/lost2gether and Klasterme https://www.klasterme.com/user/profile/778c680f68aefb5200d6a516caa4299b

Announcing G+MM AMA: Cake.co founder Chris MacAskill, Thursday 1 November 2018 at 5 pm US/Eastern Chris MacAskill, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 9 PM UCT (5 PM US/Eastern, 2 PM US/Pacific), on Thursday 1 November 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Cake.co is a topic-centered microblogging service with excellent image support. For a good overview, see: https://www.cake.co/conversations/CTvLf2K/welcome-to-cake-google-refugees-here-s-how-to-get-started-using-cake/XG5bDgZ This is the third in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed! Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything (Also in the G+MM sidebar links.) #googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus #CakeCo https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

Announcing G+MM AMA: Socialhome creator Jason "jaywink" Robinson, Tuesday 30 October 3pm US/Eastern Jason Robinson, the creator of the Socialhome federated social networking server , has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 8pm UCT (3PM US/Eastern, 12 noon US/Pacific), on Tuesday 30 October 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Socialhome is similar to a Diaspora or Mastodon server, but with a different UI. Unlike Diaspora or Mastodon it will speak multiple protocols so will simultaneously be able to talk to any other server that talks Diaspora or ActivityPub protocols. It's still in early alpha state. This is the second in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed! Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything (Also in the G+MM sidebar links.) #googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #mastodon #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus https://plus.google.com/commun...

Announcing G+MM AMA: Mastodon creator Eugen "Gargron" Rochko, Monday 22 October 1pm US/Eastern Eugen Rochko , ( https://mastodon.social/@Gargron ), the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 5pm Central European Time (1PM US/Eastern, 10AM US/Pacific), on Monday 22 October 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an “instance” of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called “toots” for others to see, subject to the adjustable privacy settings of the user and their particular instance. The platform includes artists, writers and entrepreneurs such as Chuck ...

Announcing: G+MM AMAs The Google+ Mass Migration forum (at G+) will be running a set of AMAs – ask me anything interviews – focusing on sites and platforms under consideration by present G+ members seeking to move elsewhere. We’re compiling a set of candidates, the first invitations have been sent out and accepted!! Eugen Rochko, ( https://mastodon.social/@Gargron ), the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 5pm Central European Time (1PM US/Eastern, 10AM US/Pacific), on Monday 22 October 2018. Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an “instance” of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called “toots” for others to se...

A Hubzilla host on The Federation for those interested in taking a look Another is https://hub.toot.cat run by Woozle Hypertwin. This from Mark Thomas Originally shared by Mark Thomas I liked #G+ so much, I bought it! Welcome to GogglePlus!, better than ever before! :-) Connect to a major new ownerless decentralised social hub concept with over 2.2 million users, across 2000 nodes, 21 projects, and 6 protocols. #^ https://the-federation.info/ It includes in the same network things like #Pluspora, #Mastodon, #Diaspora, #Friendica. #GogglePlus is one of the hubs, built using #HubZilla framework. On the GogglePlus hub you can: Connect to anyone on the wider hub on those networks above, known as the Federation or Fediverse Have a huge array of security and privacy settings, easy or detailed as you like. Know that no-one is accessing or selling your data, its yours only. It has all the features of Facebook, GooglePlus and major social networks and a lot more. Premium content- Set if you wa...

Google+ Exodus Recommended Practices What you should be doing now : As of October, 2018, given the announced shutdown of Google+ effective August 2019, you and/or your community should: Exchange permanent contact information with contacts and groups. A pinned Profile post is easiest to find. Update your profile "About" page with forwarding addresses. Any addresses you don't want public can be shared in private Circles or Communities, or directly. Talk over and decide on your online/social-media presence after August 2019. Your closest relationships, family, friends, work, professional, or other immediate community will likely be your biggest influence. Start thinking about data: what you want to keep, what you can delete, and how you want to use it. Make a Google Data Takeout Archive. Not because this is the last time you'll need to do this, but because it's likely the first and you should familiarise yourself with the process and its limitations. Start asse...

Established G+ Exodus Communities As of 13 October 2018, pluspora.com - increased membership from perhaps 100 before the G+ termination announcement (October 9?) to 5500 within a few days afterward. The MeWe community “Google Plus Refugees” has 124 members. community “Google+” has 20 members. The Cake interest category “Google” has 189 followers. Recent posts address the demise of G+. The category also tracks other Google-related matters including related consumer devices and working at Google, and others. I’d like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and any other relevant stats as well. Thanks to Cade Johnson #googleplus #gplusrefugees #PlexodusWiki https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Diaspora_Communities https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Diaspora_Communities