Two Hollywood Phonies (@autumn)

Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town

google should try social media again nooo trust me itll work this timeee

Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town

i know a lot of people who genuinely used and liked g+, not saying it was bad. im saying they still shut that shit down 😭

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@autumn i hate google so much for this

Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town

@fiore i never even used it when i was a kid because i was deathly scared of social media. what was the whole idea with it? i think i only had an account because i watched youtube lmao

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@autumn the cool idea was “circles” imo . you basically had like idk , 5? different “levels” to posting (like on fedi you can post for followers only , something like that)

so like , you could post something visible only to your “work” circle , or somethng only for your “family” , or something else as “public”

Yaseeniko

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone

@fiore @autumn the circles thing was so good that Facebook copied it into the “lists” feature. Both circles and lists also worked as negatives, ie you could EXCLUDE a post from a circle or INCLUDE a post into a circle.

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@yassie_j @autumn YES it was great

somebody should maybe implement a AP-compatible server for that i think ..

Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town

@yassie_j @fiore that's such a cool feature wtf. i would love to have that

Yaseeniko

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone

@autumn @fiore for example, I have a “relatives” list, so any of the shenanigans I got up to (like talking to women) could be EXCLUDED from their view, but I also have a “close friends” list so personal posts could be INCLUDED in their view.

The other bonus of the list/circles feature is that people within them could see each other’s comments even if they weren’t friends. So, for example, in my Close Friends list, I have two friends who didn’t know each other – they could still see each others comments and even reply to each other.

But most crucially is that people outside of the Close Friends list could not see the post, nor see their comments at all. Their friends would not know they left a comment unless they were in that list.

This is where the “follower-only” of Mastodon falls down hard.

Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town

@yassie_j @fiore yeah that's how i thought that follower-only worked until i learnt it didn't lmao. seems like a really cool feature i wonder if there would be any difficulty actually implementing it into this protocol

Yaseeniko

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone

@autumn @fiore it would be like having allow-only Federation for one post at a time, which sounds simple on the surface but probably ballache to implement

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@autumn @yassie_j i think you dont need it built into the protocol , you can just automatically tag people ina “dm” thread

but ig the “excluding” people wouldnt work very well in that case

Yaseeniko

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone

@fiore @autumn plus it would unintentionally create a hellthread

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@yassie_j @autumn oh true yea haha

φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink

@yassie_j @autumn well i mean . the feature is basically hellthreads but without the notifications . if you rlly think abt it

Yaseeniko

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone

@fiore @autumn the funny thing is that G+ was actually not that bad, especially compared to Zucc

The fact that they forced it into EVERYTHING made everyone hate it

But I legit think if they let it grow organically, which it would have because Google has infinite advertising budget, it could have been a strong competitor

I remember I had a few people move directly over there and then they had to come back to Facebook when Google killed it lol