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Comment by philprx | Hacker News Reader

"Google, the finest place where startups and products go to die" ;-)

Honestly, how many surviving Google products were developed at Google instead of outside it and then got absorbed by it at some point? They keep absorbing working startups and often killing their products to work on new products, only for those products to always be incredibly niche and never survive more than half a decade or so. Basically only the actual business-oriented ones, with anything consumer-facing shutting down fairly quickly.

God, G+ was bad though.

G+ had a good idea at its core, though. Facebook lost its appeal for 24-year-old me as soon as all my random aunts and uncles were on there posting boomer memes and commenting on photos of me at a kegger, or whatever dumb stuff I was getting photographed doing back then.

The "Circles" feature was a nice way to address that in theory, but the execution was really half-baked and the network effect didn't help them.

Yeah, I actually really liked G+... it was a nicer experience for technical follows, etc. Twitter is a firehose and you can only effectively sample a little of it. Facebook is just a mess, I think the groups feature is somewhat nice, but other than that, it's chaotic. They're all trying to compete in wierd ways and making them all less useful.

Mastadon seems interresting, but frankly I'd rather go back to IRC, and see some useful extensions to /whois details for better interconnectivity and profiles, but not so closed and walled garden as slack. Aside, I do still use irc for programming and bbs related stuff.

When Discord was brand new and still a little rough around the edges I had a dream of making a federated IRC-and-Speex-based competitor.

I miss IRC.

Earth, the finest place where all living things born to die.

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