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[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 24 points 5 months ago (11 children)

The difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.

But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)
[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

If you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.

I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.

I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.

The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I've ever really been a part of.

It was wonderful ♥️

[–] Laser@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I'm still sad it's gone

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