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Social Media was a mistake
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Hot take, Google+ was onto something with their "circles" thing. Basically you could choose the visibility of every post and comment you made to be limited to a subset of your contacts
That was indeed a great idea wrapped in, well, Google
Corporate social media is always destined to enshittification and being a tool of surveillance capitalism, being Google's just speedran it.
The core issue with Google+ wasn't the platform, it was that Giogle started becoming a spyware comany and rewuired real IDs and forced thst shit on everyone.
Facebook also allows this to an extent. Or at least it did 5 years ago when I last used facebook. You did have to manually choose who could see the post everytime though. Not nearly as convenient.
Yeah It'd take forever to click "All like-minded hoes in the world EXCEPT family members"
i had a friend who accidentally got his posts set to only post to me. and i would reliably comment on everything because we were besties. apparently it really got to his mental health.
Facebook is like an MMO chatroom. I prefer the small servers.
Google+ started well enough, but when only google using nerds were the only ones using it using it( as it was designed by those people), they decided to make it worse and force it on everyone.
And educational on basic set theory.
I don't recall, wasn't google+ the new product to come out of orkut? Or was orkut bought out by google when google+ didn't "perform as expected"