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Ellie Kennard PhotographyJust Rest There For a While Last night I woke at 3:45 and just caught the last of the blood moon eclipse but I wasn't able to take any photos. The moon looked quite pink, unlike the one here. I took this image during my participation in the <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/GooglePlus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> Mentorship Program for Photographers led by Robin Griggs Wood. What a great experience that was! This was my comment about the photograph and the mentorship then: "Like this moon ...I feel that I have been told "just rest here for a few minutes, and look around you. We are all here to support and help you define yourself." (Sigh.) This is also my favourite tree which I featured recently. I hope you have a great Friday, all my Pixl- and Fedi-friends. <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/EllieKPosts?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EllieKPosts</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/moon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/FullMoon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FullMoon</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Sunset?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sunset</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Trees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trees</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/BlueHour?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueHour</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/BlueHourSky?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueHourSky</a>

Chad Haney, PhDI wrote about SPECT a long time ago when I was doing <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/SciCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciCom</a> on <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>, which I converted to a blog.<a href="https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/</a>

Jupiter Rowland@<a href="https://livellosegreto.it/@prex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">prex</a> Sit down, get a snack and a drink, for this will be long. <blockquote>I wish someone made the federated G+</blockquote> "The federated G+" was literally made before Google+ itself. diaspora* Have you ever heard of <a href="https://diasporafoundation.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">diaspora*</a>? If not, let me take you back to 2010. Back then, it first came out that Facebook was spying on its users and selling their private data. In spring, four students asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding for an ambitious project: a free, open-source, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentralised alternative to Facebook named diaspora*. The word spread like wild fire. Tech media jumped upon it. Non-tech mass media jumped upon it. These four guys were about to develop a Facebook killer! Of the requested $12,000, they got over $200,000. They started working in May, 2010. In October, they presented a first very early alpha version of diaspora* that could only run on Macs as servers. It would take the likely suicide of the project founder, the replacement of the whole development team and several years to even release a first beta. To this day, diaspora* did not have a 1.0 stable release. In general, diaspora* did not become the huge, super-popular Facebook killer. It always remained obscure. Google+ Then came Google. They saw that people wanted to move away from Facebook, but they thought they had nowhere to go. And Google wanted to exploit the self-same source of income as Facebook. So they launched Google+. Google+ was a blatant, full-on, all-out rip-off of diaspora*. The circles that almost everyone "knows" were invented by Google? diaspora*'s aspects, stolen by Google. Google's entire new corporate UI design with the black navigation bar at the top? diaspora*'s design. <blockquote>Like, cirlces? So ahead of its times!</blockquote> Again: diaspora* had Google+'s circles before Google+ had circles. diaspora* has aspects, and Google stole them and named them circles. Google got away with it easily. Nobody knew diaspora*. Nobody knew what diaspora* looks like. And diaspora* itself had other things to take care of than a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against a power-mongering Silicon Valley teracorporation or even a C&D against Google. The slow death of diaspora* But seriously, diaspora* isn't worth looking at nowadays. It may have released a 0.9 beta last year, skipping 0.8 altogether. But it's withering away. Shortly before New Year's Eve 2024, three major diaspora* pods shut down. According to one statistics website, diaspora* lost more than half its user accounts within three days. For April 1st, 2025, the shutdown of diasp.org, one of the biggest and most important pods, has been announced. JoinDiaspora, the old lighthouse pod, has been gone for quite a while now. But diaspora*'s issues lie not only in its slow development, but also in its design decisions. It's beautiful, but it's minimalist to the point of being lack-lustre. Also, diaspora* does not support ActivityPub and never will. It only supports its own protocol. The developers have explicitly decided against supporting ActivityPub because Fediverse projects don't "implement ActivityPub", they "implement Mastodon". This, however, also means that diaspora* cannot connect to most of the Fediverse by far. Friendica But: There's even better than diaspora* and Google+ that's free, open-source, decentralised and federated. And it was there before Google+. I'm not kidding. Remember, it took four students, $200,000 of crowd-funding and five months (May to October, 2010) to create a first, very unfinished preview of diaspora*. But the same year, it took one developer and protocol designer with some three decades of experience (@<a class="" href="https://fediversity.site/channel/mikedev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mike Macgirvin 🖥️</a>), zero crowd-funding and only four months (March to July, 2010) to create a first, very fleshed-out and useable release of something initially called Mistpark. At this point, when the four diaspora* creators were still tinkering, Mistpark was already more powerful than both diaspora* and Mastodon are today. It already had everything a social network needs. It had diaspora*'s aspects before diaspora* had aspects and long before Google+ had circles; only it called them lists. And Mistpark's lists were diaspora*'s aspects and Google+'s circles on coke. Since early 2012, Mistpark has been known as <a href="https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendica</a> (<a href="https://friendi.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official website</a>). Since mid-January, 2025, it is the primary go-to alternative to Facebook in the Fediverse. And it has continuously been fully federated with Mastodon for as long as Mastodon has been around. Since January, 2016. Again, I'm not kidding. Friendica's descendants But Mike didn't stop there. He went on and improved the same concept further and further by forking his own creations and advancing them technologically. In 2011, he invented the concept of <a href="https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nomadic identity</a> (something that Bluesky claims to have invented much later, but has yet to prove to be functional) to make identites more resilient against server shutdown, and he created another all-new communication protocol named Zot (today known as Nomad) for that purpose. In 2012, he handed Friendica over to the community and forked it into something called Red, later the Red Matrix. It was the first not only decentralised, but nomadic social server application in the world. In 2015, it was redesigned, vastly expanded in features and renamed <a href="https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hubzilla</a> (<a href="https://hubzilla.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official website</a>). To this day, Hubzilla is the one most powerful and feature-rich Fediverse server application. It is not a vague concept or in early development; instead, it has been a rock-solid multi-purpose daily driver for longer than Mastodon has been around. Another one of its key features is what's the second-most advanced and fine-grained permissions system in the Fediverse, something that Mastodon doesn't have at all. Its privacy groups are diaspora*'s aspects or Google+'s circles on coke and 'roids because you can do things with them that are impossible even on Friendica, much less diaspora* or Google+, not to mention what Mastodon calls lists. They aren't called privacy groups for nothing. In 2018, Mike handed the development of Hubzilla over to the community to concentrate on the further advancement of Zot. This led to: <ul><li>Osada (2018, discontinued in 2019)</li><li>Zap (2018, discontinued in 2022)</li><li>another Osada (2019, discontinued later in 2019)</li><li>yet another Osada (2020, discontinued in 2022)</li><li>Redmatrix 2020 (2020, discontinued in 2022)</li><li>Mistpark 2020 a.k.a. Misty (2020, discontinued in 2022)</li><li>Roadhouse (2021, discontinued in 2022)</li><li><a href="https://joinfediverse.wiki/(streams)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">(streams)</a> (<a href="https://codeberg.org/streams/streams" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">code repository</a>, 2021)</li><li>Forte (<a href="https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">code repository</a>, 2024)</li></ul> Except for the first Osada, all of them were or still are nomadic. Except for Zap until some point in 2019, all of them supported or still support ActivityPub. And they all had or still have an advanced permissions system which, at least on (streams) and Forte, even slightly surpasses Hubzilla's. Their access lists are at least on par with Hubzilla's privacy groups. Finally If you're looking for a decentralised Google+ drop-in replacement, that'd be diaspora*. But diaspora* is dying, and it will never federate with Mastodon. If you're also interested in something that's even better than Google+, check <a href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/0a75de76-eb27-4149-b708-f20b2f79d392" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams)</a>. #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Long" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Long</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=LongPost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LongPost</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWLong</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLongPost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWLongPost</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=FediMeta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FediMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=FediverseMeta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FediverseMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWFediMeta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWFediMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWFediverseMeta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWFediverseMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fediverse</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Google%2B" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google+</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=GooglePlus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GooglePlus</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=diaspora%2A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">diaspora*</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Mistpark" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistpark</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Friendika" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendika</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Friendica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendica</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=RedMatrix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RedMatrix</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Hubzilla" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hubzilla</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Osada" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Osada</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Zap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zap</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Mistpark2020" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mistpark2020</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Misty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Misty</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Redmatrix2020" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Redmatrix2020</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Roadhouse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roadhouse</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Streams" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streams</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=%28streams%29" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">(streams)</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Forte" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forte</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Lists" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lists</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Aspects" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aspects</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Circles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Circles</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=PrivacyGroups" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PrivacyGroups</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=AccessLists" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AccessLists</a>

FiXatoStill missing <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>'s <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Collections</a> :(

FiXato<a href="https://hackers.town/@CyberpunkLibrarian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@CyberpunkLibrarian</a> that still exists? I remember it was an alternative being built during the demise of <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>, and IIRC it was drawing too many right-wingers for my liking, though I could be misremembering.

FiXatoYou know what is another thing I miss from <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>? Being able to preview the snippet for links before posting, and the ability to select which of the page images to accompany the snippet. Especially if it would be combined with an optional alt text for the snippet media. Yes, I know I could also just upload a screenshot or manually download and attach the relevant image, but this would feel a lot more streamlined. <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/mastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastoDev</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a>

SethVintage Hoodie! <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/GooglePlus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>

SethBlast from the past. Found my old Google+ hoodie in the closet. Man, back in 2010-11 Google+ had so much promise. But Google killed it. Ugh. This is even the original logo for G+. <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/GooglePlus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/Google?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/SocialMedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/LegacySocialMedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegacySocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/BlastFromThePast?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlastFromThePast</a>

Stu<a href="https://linuxrocks.online/@SolusSpider" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SolusSpider</a> it's all fun. Cliff and I go way back when we met on <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>.We also have some history here lol to say the least <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@cliffwade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cliffwade</a>

Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:im absolutely convinced that creating a googleplus alternative in the fediverse would have an insane potential. I would totally love to design and iterate on it, I would just need frontend & backend devs 🙌if you wanna talk abt that, please reply to this post or email me at contact@matlfb.com boost appreciated 🚀<a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/googleplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#googleplus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fullstack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstackdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fullstackdevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstackdeveloper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fullstackdeveloper</a>

sergio_101Does anyone else miss Google+ ?<a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>+ <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)<blockquote>In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...</blockquote><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their</a>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600</a>This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse: "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer</a><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/KolektivaSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KolektivaSocial</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Kolektiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kolektiva</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EFF</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ElectronicFrontierFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectronicFrontierFoundation</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CyberRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CyberRights</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/OnlineRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnlineRights</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/JacksonGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JacksonGames</a>Edit: This is a 2023 story.

Unofficial PetaPixel BotMySpace CEO: Facebook Didn’t Kill MySpace, Google Did – For Music <a href="https://petapixel.com/2024/08/30/myspace-ceo-facebook-didnt-kill-myspace-google-did-for-music/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://petapixel.com/2024/08/30/myspace-ceo-facebook-didnt-kill-myspace-google-did-for-music/</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/googleplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#googleplus</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/myspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#myspace</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

Expert Plus 🍀🔱You must be kidding me, Jason.Too early to celebrate, my dude :-) <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threads</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twitter</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elon</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elonmusk</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/googleplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#googleplus</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#graveyard</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

RastaAnd just for the record <a href="https://zirk.us/@juc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@juc</a> One of the great things about <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> was the diversity of people, often the best group, similar to here. Facebook people would drop out, saying, this is too hard, or I don't get this.. and that's fine. Those were the people we didn't get and didn't want. we had good conversations, sharing world events, people talked about the country they lived in, taught a few basic words, culture, showed pictures. That's how you get popular, you create too, and share. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TALK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TALK</a>

Phil LandmeierFor Google Plus users only: A Walk Down Memory Lane.Five years ago today, Google commenced the shutdown of Google Plus. The process took several hours as different geographic regions of the world went dark, one after another.Here is a blog post with screen shots of what our beloved social networking platform used to look like.<a href="https://shuttersparks.net/for-google-plussers-only/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shuttersparks.net/for-google-plussers-only/</a><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPlus</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/G" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#G</a>+ <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memories</a>

chris@strafpla.net<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwildeboer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> was a little more complex and whimsical that the rest of the social networks, so it had some self selection. Maybe Google+ just was killed off before it went bad, so that leaves us with the positive memories - which is nice. I am still following some people in the fediverse who had Google+ accounts. (I don’t like that they took the “+” away from search.)

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕<a href="https://toot.cat/@woozle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@woozle</a> That ... could be pretty cool. I also think it's likely reasonably straightforward.Main concerns:<ul><li>G+ was a post/discussion oriented platform, far more similar to Diaspora* or Facebook. The Fediverse might work for the initial posts, but wouldn't be as appropriate for the ensuing discussions (many of which on G+ were actually where the majick happened.)</li><li>What G+ threads worth preserving really want is a platform with good discovery, categorisation, and search. Probably more of a blog ... or ... (shudder, should I really tempt you?) Wiki Though posting abstracts to the Fediverse might make for a useful advertising mode.</li><li>Flooding people with years worth of G+ posts would probably be ... annoying for many.</li></ul><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>

Woozle HypertwinWeird idea: a thingy that imports <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> posts from Google Takeout and puts them up as fedi toots with the correct date and everything (and "Google+" as the client app).

David Brent 📚Got a quote from this guy for some tree work, and I feel like if I can actually find him on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>, then he deserves my business.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WeekendThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeekendThoughts</a>

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