It's been a long time coming but soon the wishful thinking social media site alternative Google+ is shutting down for good. Or for bad as the case may be for the hundreds of thousands of users who still call Google+ a home and who are severely lacking in options for a place to move to. There's always Facebook, but given the anti-Facebook culture prevalent in the G+ network over the years it won't be an option for many. While communities debate the move, admins of communities size up the prospect of migrating years of data to another platform. Google plans to execute the shutdown in April 2019.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday January 21 2019, @03:34PM (2 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by Apparition on Monday January 21 2019, @03:36PM (1 child)
Yep. Like I posted above, many moved to Mastodon, Hubzilla, and/or Friendica.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday January 22 2019, @03:23AM
Most of us have moved to Diaspora(Pluspora), or MeWe.
I really like Diaspora conceptually, and what's there works. It really needs a bunch of features added to be a replacement for G+ at even a basic level, but it's a start. MeWe is ... meh. A bit more polished, but not very nice to use. It does have some of the features needed, but the community feel is not (currently) the same. You'd need to have used it for a while, but G+ is a really interesting thing. I've met fantastic people there, and will stay in contact with many regardless of platform.
I always described the vibe as being like walking around at a party, moving from group to group and conversation to conversation. The general intelligence level is higher than Facebook, twitter, etc, but there are fewer people. This is not a bad thing.
I'm really going to miss it.