Lemmy is still going to be here because it's not a Google product.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Touche...
Pour one out for project Ara, everyone... And the hundreds of other companies that had a bright future before Google bought and destroyed them.
It's a decade later, and I'm still bitter about Google Reader's unceremonious execution.
Gotta be Google Play Music I'm still bitter about. YouTube music doesn't hold a candle to it, and I've never quite been as happy with Spotify or Apple Music. Getting YT Premium with a good music service was great too, but they shot themselves in the foot.
And there's was just... no reason for it. They even delayed its death when they realized how crap YT Music was, and then later just... decided to do it anyways.
I kind of feel like a single Lemmy instance will ~~domonate~~ dominate and become the defacto instance that everyone just joins.
The whole system is crap.
We should have gotten something that's actually decentralised and P2P like Aether.
What we got was centralised servers + a glorified RSS feed that enables even more echo chambers than Reddit did... The fediverse is doomed to remain irrelevant imho
I think a big help to avoid this is if any "official" apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any single instance.
Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named "mastodon" available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to "Make it easier for the normies".
The fact that I dont' even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/gargon@mastodon.social is probably a good sign too.
I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+
They should've called it Google Circles. Google Plus just sounded like some kind of premium subscription to Google and not like a social network.
Google+ didn't work because they didn't push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.
Yes - I'm being serious they didn't push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn't inadvertently leak your info.
If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we'd still have Google+ today.
Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we'd still have Google Talk. I don't recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don't have to use.
This is why you should never adopt Google services, there's a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.
I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.
I never used Google Plus, what did you like about it?
per post scoping was nice.
I didn't have to manually tag each account, just select the circle and publish.
By then I predict the big corp news media will report on Lemmy like it’s the new 4chan. Unmoderated instances that no major instance links to will give them plenty of ammunition. Non technical users will believe it to the frustration of all Lemmy.
Not trying to be a downer when they attack you, you know you’re winning
Some of these are fucking wild
Killed over 1 year ago, Cameos on Google allowed celebrities and other public figures to record video responses to the most common questions asked about them which would be shown to users in Google Search results. It was over 3 years old.
Imagine googling "does Bruno Mars is gay?" and Bruno Mars himself shows up to tell you if he is or doesn't
I hope that it'll look less buggy. Today was awful.
Sorry, I'm in the minority that actually liked Google+.
Circles were a good idea
I thought circles was the best idea. I loved having a bit more control over posts. Unfortunately, only two of my friends used it, so it was worthless for me for the most part.
Circles prevented over sharing with the wrong people, which is the entire business model of social media.
Only place I've ever accidentally uploaded a dick pic and so glad I had like 2 friends on there who never checked lol. It was a fun 2 weeks.
Lemmy will be a dinosaur like hacker news and we'll all use a bunch of different softwares to connect to the fediverse