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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ha I am actually still friends with people I met on G+ as well. Before Pokémon Go Niantic had a game called Ingress and we organized teams and strategized on Google+ groups and chat. I don’t know how google messed it up honestly with the way everyone with gmail had an account…you could chat and there was audio and video calling that worked pretty well. It was also very clean and modern for the time. Oh well, Alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Google never really recovered from the attempt at “FOMO” by restricting most from accessing the newly hyped social media network.

By the time Google opened it up, people were already moving on to other platforms.

Although some instances do restrict new signups, imagine if they all restricted access? It would not be the same here.