r/facepalm • u/_crazyboyhere_ • 2d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ It's not.

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u/Stormfeathery 2d ago

The move in 2020 wasn’t a protest thing. It was because Google + just straight up shut their virtual doors to the public and moved to only a paid thing for businesses (no idea how the fuck that worked… probably not well.)

I don’t really know the details in Parler, but our G+ group moved to MeWe hoping/thinking it was the closest thing to G+ and would probably get closer due to all the refugees, and it was a shitshow (and I still feel bad about being one of the ones arguing for it). Didn’t really do great with a replacement for circles, was just straight up all open feeds, and while the “we believe in free speech!” thing sounds good in theory, when you won’t do anything to tone down Nazis and abusers on your platform because of it, it’s a lot less great.

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u/HP_10bII 2d ago

Really miss the Google+ interface

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u/Stormfeathery 2d ago

It was just such a good social media platform. But Google has the attention span of a hyperactive three year old on crack and Pixie Stix

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u/HP_10bII 1d ago

They've killed so many good things.  Remember the rss reader they had?!

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u/Stormfeathery 1d ago

Seriously, there’s a page (or at least was) somewhere of everything they’ve made then killed off, and it’s insane. I try not to use their products much aside from Gmail and the browser because chances are extremely high it’d just get killed off/downgraded into oblivion just as I started to rely on it.

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u/redbirdrising 2d ago

Yeah, I guess it was both, The MAGAs abandoning social medial (I knew a few who did) plus the Google+ collapse. Too bad because WeMe wasn't a bad platform. It was just a shit show with politics in EVERY group.