Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by alex1138 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:28PM (#41374802)

By far the biggest thing people remember about Google+ was the hamfisting of it (several people lost their Youtube accounts) and yet people also reported that it was otherwise a good experience (compared to the Facebook feed); one thing Google had to contend with was Facebook not offering access to the social graph so they had to build the network effects by a more difficult route

eg Facebook replacing people's email addresses, one wonders if it was partly a way to fight Google+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by AlchemistCamp on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:01AM (#41375826)

I lost my original YouTube account due to Google+ spawning a new one from my gmail address I’d used to sign up for YT in the early days.

It’s been years and I’m still mildly annoyed about losing it.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by TeaBrain on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:27AM (#41376245)

Google also spawned a second one for me from my original gmail address, but I still use my original pre-google+ youtube account. After signing in to that google account on any given device, I have the option to switch between the two youtube accounts associated with the email.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by AlchemistCamp on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:33AM (#41376938)

That must be nice. Was your YT account also from before the acquisition?

My original account still exists and my face is in the videos as well but but I have no way to log in and support couldn’t or wouldn’t help me.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by TeaBrain on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:52AM (#41380874)

The original YT account associated with the email was created in mid-2010, so not pre-acquisition.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by saghm on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:38PM (#41381380)

It's good that you have access to both; out of curiosity, is there any differentiation in the way it list them in the menu where you pick which one to use, or is the order consistent? I can imagine being mildly annoyed if I had to guess every time I logged into a new device which one was the one I wanted, although obviously that's still better than just not having a choice.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by TeaBrain on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:45PM (#41383437)

The one created for google+ is usually listed first. After signing into my google account on a new device, the google+ one is also the one that I'm usually automatically signed into.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by actionfromafar on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:40AM (#41378419)

If Google had any direction and purpose, it could have kept not fucking up Circles until Facebook (almost inevitably it seems in retrospect) messed up.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by tim333 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:31AM (#41378729)

If Google just added customer happiness to their usual stuff it would fix a lot of things.

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