@anna I had a friend who constantly brought it up (at the time it felt like another Google+ or MeWe). The Twitter downturn finally had me accept the suggestion/invitation to join. And I was hooked for idealogical reasons. 🙂

I’m excited about all the different facets of the Fediverse. Free software without paywalls feels like a playground to explore. It reminds me of the days of learning about alternative operating systems to Mac OS (period correct formatting).

The community movie night was also charming (sometimes—I’m not a horror fan 😅).

I appreciate the control I can have over so much of my experience.

#Fediverse #GooglePlus #MeWe

感谢 神楽坂雯麗 在我这年的生日通过我的女装社群加入申请~ 这是一个美妙开始。那时候社群还只有 93 人呢ww。也确实「开启新大陆之门」了（
#GooglePlus （13年前）

和 神楽坂萌绫 认识 10 周年！ #GooglePlus
2015年12月13日 - 2025年12月13日
其实不止十年了哦～～(/ω＼)

13年前的这一天，#GooglePlus 上，一位穿裙子的可爱姐姐 神楽坂雯麗 关注了我，使我的世界线变动了一点。

Google+ arşivimden 2012 yılındaki o paylaşımın görüntüsü. ツ

#Ibanez #guitar #googleplus

@sscherfke@pixelfed.de My first post on Pixelfed. I‘ll start with older photos that were once in my #googleplus public album and will then see how I‘ll continue from there.

Randomly remembered this Google+ -article about bragging rights from 2012.

That so many (seemingly: the writer said they'd gone through "hundreds of profiles" to find 50 with cool stories) had such singular stories such as "invented hashtags", really sells how the platform never reached the masses.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/740976/software-the-50-best-bragging-rights-claimed-on-google.html

#Googleplus #google

Ironically enough I hit 15k on #GooglePlus about a week ago in 2013. This is the biggest following I've had since. I sure can pick a #SocialMedia site, huh? Jay, quit kicking people off the lifeboat. I don't wanna shut out the lights on yet another one.

Found my 21-digit profile ID so I could try to retrieve my Google Plus out of the Internet Archive. Found some of my friends, but the archive missed me.

All the data Google keeps on me against my wishes, but they deleted that. Oh well.

#GooglePlus

Google+ (pronunciado Google Plus, Google Más o G+) fue una red social de Google lanzada el 28 de junio de 2011. Intentó competir con Facebook y otras redes sociales integrando otros servicios de Google como Blogger y YouTube, pero no tuvo éxito y fue cerrada para consumidores en 2019
#retrocomputingmx #googleplus #computerhistory

@nyquildotorg I loved the Ripples feature that early #GooglePlus had!
It was very neat to see it ripple through communities with reshares, and occasionally was a great way to find and tap directly into new audiences.
It probably also could be a privacy nightmare 😂
Early introductory example video of Google Ripples in action on Google Plus
Being able to scrub through the timeline and watch the post spread out to other people, with the size of the circles representing how big an audience it reached, and then being able to click on them to see the other circles it reached through them, filtering down deeper and deeper recursively. Getting an overview of the biggest 'influencers', languages, and stats like longest chain length, average shares per hour, and longest chain; I don't think I've seen a similar set of features since.
RIP #GoogleRipples and #GPlus.

It's a mark of how little I understood how to use #GooglePlus that I tweeted my confusion in 2013. 😂 #socialmedia #marketing #fads

Am I the only one for whom #Microsoft pushing #AI into every single product is the same, but absolutely the same scenario like #GooglePlus was? With the expected flop at the end as well?

@chmod777 for me it was during the sunsetting of #GooglePlus.
Looking at the join date of @FiXato@mastodon.social I've been here since 16 Sept 2018

@ChrisWere

Als damals Google+ einfach so beendet wurde, war ich traurig und auch wütend, weil ich ein Netzwerk verlor, das mir von den Menschen her zusagte. Über Umwege fand ich dann zu Mastodon und ich glaube, ich habe ein besseres Google+ gefunden und eine digitale Heimat.

#Mastodon #GooglePlus

Google+ .. Who remembers Google+ (Google Plus)?
I loved it, and created my account the night it was launched, and I ended up with 15,000 followers. #googleplus #socialnetworks #throwbackThursday

I wrote about SPECT a long time ago when I was doing #SciCom on #GooglePlus, which I converted to a blog.

https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/

It's been a while since I saw a #GooglePlus logo!
I always wore looked that service - the concept of circles was really nicely done I thought - but I guess not enough people felt the same way at the time ...

@mattgrayyes #Friendica (which has a shared ancestor with #Streams) can also be worth looking into. It's a bit more #Diaspora* / #GooglePlus / Facebook-like.
It has some media type filters available, as well as more fine-grained contact type filters, and supposedly can also have multiple profiles per account, though I couldn't quickly figure that out in my old test account.

#Hubzilla is also quite elaborate, but I never really got into it for the same reason Friendica never fully grabbed me; it felt too clunky and too unfocused in its features. That's what eventually made Mastodon my primary social media account after Google+ shut down; it was the most polished one, and had a more streamlined focus, as well as the more active mobile app ecosystem. I eventually settled on a #GlitchSoc fork instance because of its additional features such as formatting and longer post lengths, though nowadays I would also consider #Hometown because of its Article support.