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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by neodymiumphish on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:21PM (#34075941)
This makes me think that maybe Google Plus (God, what a shitty name), could have succeeded. The focus on sharing into circles of users who wanted your content would have made it a system where you pick who should view a given post. This circle-oriented sharing may have led to less self-promotion than the other platforms.
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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:39PM (#34076043)
Gchat is an absurd story of not realizing what was in front of it.
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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by Gigachad on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:29PM (#34075991)
It's still just not as good as group chats. It has no community vibe as each person is posting to a different group of people. If I join a programming group chat, I'll get to know everyone there and the content will almost all be around the topic of the group. If I open something like Google Plus, it's going to be some content probably related to what I might like to see, but it's still just a public forum with no community.
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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:25PM (#34075966)
In practice the issue was few people understood and properly used circles. I mostly just used them to sort kinda a primary and secondary feed. One to keep up with, and one for casual browsing.
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