12 years ago. Wonder what Lemmy will look like in 12 years?

Lemmy is still going to be here because it's not a Google product.

I don't really get what the hate was for Google+, it was better than the alternative/competitor at the time (Facebook)

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+

In 12 years, selfhosting will be so cheap and one-push-button easy that everyone will have their own instance and federated with each other. It will be called Neo-Geocities 2.0.

This is why you should never adopt Google services, there's a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.

The beauty of the Fediverse is that no single entity controls it... In 12 years, I'd wager we're still around.

I kind of feel like a single Lemmy instance will domonate dominate and become the defacto instance that everyone just joins.

Sorry, I'm in the minority that actually liked Google+.

I hope that it'll look less buggy. Today was awful.

Google+ didn't work because they didn't push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.

Yes - I'm being serious they didn't push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn't inadvertently leak your info.

If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we'd still have Google+ today.

Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we'd still have Google Talk. I don't recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don't have to use.

I feel like the fediverse is already way more active than what Google+ ever was.

I wonder if civilization will last 12 years

Only place I've ever accidentally uploaded a dick pic and so glad I had like 2 friends on there who never checked lol. It was a fun 2 weeks.

I honestly hope lemmy will not die. It will have to become simpler though. For many people, it will be simply way too complicated to wrap their head around the fact of many instances and most of them will worry about not being able to interact with people from other instances.

Also, the main lemmy web app is not necessarily good and alternatives such as wefwef are far easier to use.

I mean this post has 1200 upvotes. Considering most people don't engage with the voting system that makes me think that there's a decent amount of people here. At the very least it means there's a lot of people here who engage with the community. More come every day. If this post were on Reddit, it would be on r/all right now. That's not bad for a community with a fraction of the users.

I think that in 10 years this place will be doing alright. I think the growth that's happened in the last few months won't last, but I think that growth will still steadily happen. The reddexodus doesn't happen every day but with most social media platforms shitting their geriatric pants more and more lately, I think a consistent flow of refugees will come here.

I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.

Anyone remembers wave? Or what was it called - was definitely ahead of its time.

RIP

Original Google+ before nymwars was so good. The photo walks and the community was amazing.

The difference is that Google+ tried to be Facebook. And Lemmy is just Lemmy.

I loved Google+ at the time but I was invested in the Google services ecosystem back then.

If Reddit can make it for 12+ years, I’m sure Lemmy can too!

I'm still wishing the internet could go back to how it was in the 90's so I'm hoping it will continue to look the same in 12 years.

By then I predict the big corp news media will report on Lemmy like it’s the new 4chan. Unmoderated instances that no major instance links to will give them plenty of ammunition. Non technical users will believe it to the frustration of all Lemmy.

Not trying to be a downer when they attack you, you know you’re winning

I remember getting a few of my friends to try G+ with me, then getting in and realizing we were the only ones there. Feels like Lemmy already has more people than that ghost town ever did.

Please tell me someone remembers Google wave and the insane amount people were paying on eBay for an invitation. (Sorry, just randomly remember it when I saw Google+)

12 Years ago.. I've zero interested in Google+

Geez it's just so incredibly sad to me that facebook has survived this long and even THRIVED while probably being the worst version of what they do, and being the most evil doing it

Probably merged with all the other ActivityPub frontends into a single, hyper-customizable mega-app.

Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven't experienced much of either yet. There's tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I'm just not seeing it yet ¯\(ツ)/¯

All good things die eventually... Sad story bro

I just get never get any of my friends to use Google +. It was just me and a few of my tech nerd friends.

Lemmy will be a dinosaur like hacker news and we'll all use a bunch of different softwares to connect to the fediverse

has it already been 12 years?!

Had a big following on G+, did a few courses and had a lot of fun in that network. Still friends with many of the people I connected with on there.

Never quite got that feel on Reddit and Lemmy won’t have it either because identities are hidden. But that’s OK, all platforms have a purpose.

I still can’t stand Facebook. Even though it makes me money, I feel the ick being on there every time.

Does anyone remember the asian (?) Platform "multiply", long long ago, where you could upload music for your friends? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply_(website)?wprov=sfla1

I really liked it back in the day, then it died. I hope Lemmy will preservere...

Google+ was too much of a copy of the existing social networks at the time.

I'm still a Google Reader orphan though.

Google+ was so weird, for a considerable amount of time it was invite only, you needed some form of connection to get in – turns out this wasn't great as they assumed it would be. I can only assume that is the reason they pulled a massive U-turn and decided to foist it upon anyone and everyone after the fact, which, it would appear, was also a bad idea.

G+ was just one of many. APIs come and go with maps, spreadsheets, forms, fusion tables. Played with some custom map places which were actually useful. after G dropped support for large chunks of code I dropped the idea. Lemmy will stay basically same. Internet will move to texted voicemail recordings with bad transcriptions.

I'm not sure, but i'm keen to find out!

better than google +

The launch was actually pretty cool then they started limiting accounts and tottally took all the steam out

God, what will I look like in 12 years? 😅🥲

Fuckin google+... Lets not try to spill the salt while we get this thing going

Google did write golang and Google likes killing everything it touches Lemmy is written in go…