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   Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:49:47 JST Pete Zaitcev

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   @a @sun Maybe technically. But I recall a different narrative: only complete nerds were able to navigate the insane, arcane feature set of G+. The experience was a total shit for normal people, which is why it failed: nobody wanted to use it.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:49:46 JST Sick Sun

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     @zaitcev @a my impression was it wasn't great but the real reason was people weren't willing to exert even a little effort to understand the very basic feature of circles
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:55:13 JST Sick Sun

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     @coolboymew @a @zaitcev google broke an implicit promise, which was that all your accounts were going to be securely separate, and poeple really didn't like it. google's real name policy was based on their corporate interests and not something that many of their users actually asked for
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:55:14 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sun @zaitcev @a I'd say the real name policy was a big thing. Facebook was actually severely annoying people around then, people started seeing the downside of having family and coworker along in their facebook friends... The circle feature could've helped, but I think the biggest killer was indeed attempting to force real names. Nobody wanted a second facebook that was just like facebook
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:57:07 JST iced depresso

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     @sun @a @coolboymew @zaitcev groups.. :nothehe:
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:59:50 JST Sick Sun

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     @zaitcev @coolboymew @a gargron can pump fake-ass numbers for fediverse forever since measurement is so uneven, anybody promoting the fedi cites cumulative signup numbers even though almost everybody leaves after one post or less.
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 11:59:51 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @coolboymew @sun @a Moonman mentioned just now that G+ had 90 million users when it shut down. FB had 1 billion at the time and growing.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 12:00:48 JST Sick Sun

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     @zaitcev @coolboymew @a i was citing techdirt and a was saying the leaks put it at closer to 50