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Social Media was a mistake (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 119 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Hot take, Google+ was onto something with their "circles" thing. Basically you could choose the visibility of every post and comment you made to be limited to a subset of your contacts

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was indeed a great idea wrapped in, well, Google

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

Corporate social media is always destined to enshittification and being a tool of surveillance capitalism, being Google's just speedran it.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago

The core issue with Google+ wasn't the platform, it was that Giogle started becoming a spyware comany and rewuired real IDs and forced thst shit on everyone.

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Facebook also allows this to an extent. Or at least it did 5 years ago when I last used facebook. You did have to manually choose who could see the post everytime though. Not nearly as convenient.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah It'd take forever to click "All like-minded hoes in the world EXCEPT family members"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

i had a friend who accidentally got his posts set to only post to me. and i would reliably comment on everything because we were besties. apparently it really got to his mental health.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Facebook is like an MMO chatroom. I prefer the small servers.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Google+ started well enough, but when only google using nerds were the only ones using it using it( as it was designed by those people), they decided to make it worse and force it on everyone.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 2 points 2 months ago

And educational on basic set theory.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I don't recall, wasn't google+ the new product to come out of orkut? Or was orkut bought out by google when google+ didn't "perform as expected"