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300 sats \ 4 replies \ @itsrealfake 7h \ parent \ on: Has Proton Gone Too Far? tech
I was so hyped about it when they dropped it, but it was a complete boondoggle, from my memory. Circles was a neat idea, but suddenly, I was responsible for maintaining a social network in two locations (FB & G+).
With the dual maintenance hinderence & with the still-fresh memory of dropping Wave, I didn't commit as hard as I could. Plus, as a community manager at the time, I was in the awkward position of trying to encourage the company to devote resources to the new thing, and the complexity of the social circle UX didn't make that push easy.
Circles were neat, and obviously NOSTR should take lots of inspiration from all that wonderful tech from 2008-14
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haha.. I guess that is a funny way of saying that you haven't heard a lot of positive recollections from G+
As I recall it now, I guess G+ was the beginning of the end of my appreciation of the "big tech" things that I liked so much. It was around the time that Ross got pinched. It was around the time that Boston happened... I remember watching all that from my office in Beijing... while the US sleeping all the expat observers were blown away by what we watched. Scary.
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