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Death of Google+ Causing Angst

posted by martyb on Monday January 21 2019, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hard-to-be-social-without-a-network dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:38PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @07:38PM (#789729)

    BBS's should make a comeback! maybe we can just use ssh instead of telnet to keep it at least a little secure.

    getting people to change their ways from emojis and pictures to actual writing might be hard though. but sometimes it requires effort to be social anonymously and without adults/capitalism getting in the way.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @09:02AM (#789998)

    Well, emoji are perfectly fine Unicode (mostly anyway), and you can have both emoji and your BBS. I mean, you don't want US-ASCII only BBS, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @11:03AM (#790023)

    Move back to IRC?
    Build in support for posting images?
    Keep an auto history?

    What more could you want?

  • (Score: 2) by Apparition on Tuesday January 22 2019, @08:08PM

    by Apparition (6835) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @08:08PM (#790261) Journal

    As I posted last week, I've seriously been considering starting up a BBS over SSH. I'm just not sure if anyone other than me would use it and therefore worth the money to rent a VPS.