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[–] fubo 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google+ had more than one thing wrong with it. Just for example ...

The precursor to Google+ was called Google Buzz, and it was rolled out to Gmail users in a way that exposed privacy & security problems with Gmail contacts. This led to a lawsuit and a settlement which Google had to obey when releasing their next "social media" attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy

As a result, Google+ became a heavy-handed effort that tried to hew closely to the settlement's privacy & consent requirements while assimilating seemingly-unrelated projects such as YouTube comments.

[–] jarfil 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMHO Google+ had one good thing: Circles. You could define groups of people to share stuff with, without those people having to "join a group".

I don't think people understood it well, though.

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon sort of has this.