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Robert Fairhead<p>It's a mark of how little I understood how to use <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> that I tweeted my confusion in 2013. 😂 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fads</span></a></p>
Susanne Lilith<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>GooglePlus would make more sense as part of the fediverse rather than anything else.</p><p>Luckily there are better things for us now like Mastodon and NodeBB!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a></p>
Ellie Kennard PhotographyJust Rest There For a While<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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" 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:<br> "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."<br> (Sigh.)<br> <br> This is also my favourite tree which I featured recently.<br> <br> I hope you have a great Friday, all my Pixl- and Fedi-friends.<br> <br> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/EllieKPosts?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EllieKPosts</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/moon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/FullMoon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FullMoon</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Sunset?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sunset</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/Trees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trees</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/BlueHour?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlueHour</a> <a href="https://pxlfd.ca/discover/tags/BlueHourSky?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlueHourSky</a>
Chad Haney, PhD<p>I 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" target="_blank">#<span>SciCom</span></a> on <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a>, which I converted to a blog.</p><p><a href="https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medicalimaging.imagedistillary</span><span class="invisible">.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/</span></a></p>
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FiXato<p>Still missing <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a>'s <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Collections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collections</span></a> :(</p>
FiXato<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.town/@CyberpunkLibrarian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CyberpunkLibrarian</span></a></span> 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" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a>, and IIRC it was drawing too many right-wingers for my liking, though I could be misremembering.</p>
FiXato<p>You know what is another thing I miss from <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a>?<br>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.<br>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.<br><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/mastoDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoDev</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a></p>
SethVintage Hoodie! <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/GooglePlus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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.<br> <br> This is even the original logo for G+.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/GooglePlus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/Google?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/SocialMedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/LegacySocialMedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegacySocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/BlastFromThePast?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlastFromThePast</a>
Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:<p>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 &amp; backend devs 🙌</p><p>if you wanna talk abt that, please reply to this post or email me at contact@matlfb.com </p><p>boost appreciated 🚀</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/googleplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googleplus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fullstack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstackdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fullstackdevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fullstackdeveloper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fullstackdeveloper</span></a></p>
sergio_101<p>Does anyone else miss Google+ ?</p><p><a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>+ <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a></p>
Susanne Lilith<p><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> ist nach <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> das erste wirklich soziale Netzwerk, das den Namen verdient. Und die Möglichkeiten des <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> habe ich noch nicht mal ganz erfasst.</p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><strong>FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users</strong> (2023)</p><blockquote><p>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.</p><p>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. ...</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-</span><span class="invisible">seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their</span></a></p><p>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">1434600</span></a></p><p>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" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></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 <em>very</em> 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 <em>months</em> after the FBI raid.</p><p>The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse: </p><p>"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"<br> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user</span><span class="invisible">-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/KolektivaSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KolektivaSocial</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Kolektiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kolektiva</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EFF</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ElectronicFrontierFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicFrontierFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CyberRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberRights</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/OnlineRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineRights</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/JacksonGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JacksonGames</span></a></p><p><strong>Edit:</strong> This is a 2023 story.</p>
Ein Leuchtturm steht rum<p>Ernsthaft:<br>Aktuell wünsche ich mir die <br><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Circles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Circles</span></a> von <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> zurück. Das ist ja leider hier nicht möglich. :(</p>
Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go:<p>One of the things I really enjoyed at the beginning of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> was that you could share circles of people.</p><p>A little bit like sharing one folder with your favorites pages 😄 </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> and the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> in general would definitely benefit from something like this. It should be opt-in though. So others know you accept or not to be shared by your followers to their followers.</p><p>TLDR: a discovery mechanism for amazing people </p><p>I.e I'd like to read more on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nix</span></a> </p><p>1/2</p>
Expert Plus 🍀🔱<p>You must be kidding me, Jason.</p><p>Too early to celebrate, my dude :-) </p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threads</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>x</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elon</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/googleplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googleplus</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graveyard</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Rasta<p>And just for the record <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@juc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>juc</span></a></span> One of the great things about <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> was the diversity of people, often the best group, similar to here. <br>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. <br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TALK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TALK</span></a></p>
Phil Landmeier<p>For Google Plus users only: A Walk Down Memory Lane.</p><p>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.</p><p>Here is a blog post with screen shots of what our beloved social networking platform used to look like.</p><p><a href="https://shuttersparks.net/for-google-plussers-only/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shuttersparks.net/for-google-p</span><span class="invisible">lussers-only/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePlus</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPlus</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/G" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>G</span></a>+ <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/memories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memories</span></a></p>