And that’s really it for Google+

... To complicate matters, Google kept Google+ around, even after the launch of Currents, but in an email to G Suite admins, it has now announced that Google+ for G Suite will close its doors on July 6, after which there will be no way to opt out of Currents or revert back to Google+.

And with that, Google has driven the final nail into Google+’s coffin. The Google+ mobile apps will be automatically updated to Currents. All existing links to Google+ will redirect to Currents.

Going forward, Google+ will only live on as a hazy memory, filled with circles of friends, all of which were forced to use their real name (at least at the beginning), +1 buttons everywhere, sparks and the promise of fun games, ripples and more. ....

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/and-thats-really-it-for-google/

#GooglePlus #Plexodus

Slightly OT: if you are in it for the long run, why it makes sense for users to bet on open-source and open-standards:

Because in the long run, proprietary, closed-source solutions tend to become evolutionary dead-ends.

Which might also be one of the reasons for having a serious look at the open-source social-media platforms (e.g. https://fediverse.party/). They may not look as hip and evolve as fast as their proprietary commercial competitors, but might still be around in a decade or so.

#gplusarchive #repost #bot #googleplus

Originally posted on Google+ on Wed Jan 02, 2019 (Google+ Mass Migration)

https://blog.kugelfish.com/2014/10/why-open-source-software-works.html

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

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G+ Migration Post Mortem: What went well, what went poorly, what are lessons learned?

We're now well into the post-Google+ period, and I'd like to open up the question of how things went.

I've got my own mental list of things which went well or poorly in the process, of the latter, many of which involve myself.

This is open to contributions and discussion.

Discussion here or at PlexodusReddit.

There's a Plexodus Wiki Post Mortem page open as well.

#Plexodus #GPlusRefugees #GooglePlus #PostMortem

G+ Migration Post Mortem: What went well, what went poorly, what are lessons learned?

We're now well into the post-Google+ period, and I'd like to open up the question of how things went. I've got my own mental list of things which...

Programming vs. Software Engineering? Or why I think that "Software Development" best captures the essence of what we do.

#gplusarchive #repost #bot #googleplus

Originally posted on Google+ on Sun Apr 15, 2012

http://blog.kugelfish.com/2009/02/thing-we-do-or-why-this-category-is.html

After the death of #GooglePlus, there was the death of #Sola
Announced on April 1st, we got a 10 day notice.
Can't blame the founders for their good taste, I guess.

Nothing ever lasts forever

This is interesting. The demise of #GooglePlus has made me more active on social media than I have been in better than a year.

Diaspora still feels way too clunky to me, Mastodon is fine but has fewer G+ exiles, and Twitter is noisy but still sorta OK.

For the Newbies: Markdown Quick Reference

My most popular Diaspora post to date has been my Markdown Quick Reference, which shows both the raw and formatted text for various Markdown features.

New arrivals from #GooglePlus and elsewhere may appreciate this.

(Posted as a link as I cannot reshare my own posts.)

#Markdown #Tips

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/54c680b0b40801366b870218b798024d

Markdown Quick Reference

Markdown Quick Reference There are some fun things you can do with Markdown...

The feel of #GooglePlus on April 3, 2019, where only G Suite accounts remain.

Friends+Me Google+ Exporter can still access images & video

If you're like me, well, first, my deepest sympathies, but you've used F+MGE to capture your posts and other text content, but were saving images for later, only to be caught by the Google+ shutdown.

Turns out that googleusercontent.com is still serving up those images (this may be data that's harder for Google to remove), so you can still fetch media content through Google+ Exporter.

Hop on that now if you're interested.

#GooglePlus #GplusRefugees #Plexodus #DataExport #FriendsPlusMe

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. #GooglePlus

Hello and a big welcome

to everyone new to diaspora*

With Google+ closing today, you might have just signed up to diaspora* looking for a new home. We're so pleased that you've decided to give diaspora* a try. It's fantastic that you've joined us! We have a big existing community of former G+ users, and you could try tags such as #gplusrefugee and #googleplus to connect with people you know from G+.

We hope that you quickly find your way here, and enjoy getting connected with people and content.

Here's a few tips for getting started:

• There are some step-by-step tutorials on our project website covering the basics of how diaspora* works, and how to get connected with people. There's a link to these in the side-bar, should you ever want to read them in future, and there's also an in-app Help section you can access through your user menu (at the right-hand end of the header bar).
• You can search for people by name or by diaspora* ID (which looks like an email address), if you know it, from the search field in the header bar. You can invite people to join you in diaspora* by sending them a link to our project website, from where they can choose their own pod to register with. Your friends don't need to be on the same pod as you in order to connect and communicate with you.
• One good way to start getting connected with people is to start following some #tags of subjects that interest you (maybe #music, #photography, #linux, or #activism ... whatever interests you) so that you will see content on those topics in your stream. You can then start following people whose posts you find interesting, by placing them into one of your aspects.
• If you have any questions, post something with the #question or #help tag, and people will try to help you. Make sure to make your post public so anyone who can help is able to see it!

diaspora* has some very simple community guidelines, which we hope everyone will feel able to follow so that all members can have the best possible experience here.

We're trying to improve diaspora* all the time, fixing bugs, honing performance and adding new features. But how fast we can do this is limited by the time developers have. To improve diaspora* faster, we need more developers! If you've just signed up and can code, or know someone who can and who might be interested in joining our team, get in touch!

<3 diaspora*

#newhere #neuhier #nouveauici #nouvelleici #nuevoaqui #nuevaaqui #nuovoqui #nuovaqui #nuovoutente #nuovautente #nieuwhier #новичок #νέοςεδώ #diaspora

Archive Team are 59% through their stretch goal of archiving G+ Communities

"Googleplus2" a/k/a G2 is a project to archive all public G+ community content. This was a "stretch" goal of the Google+ archiving project.

The tracker here shows the full project, there are 81,270 or so work sets of 100 communities, and as of a few moments ago, the project was at 59% complete, with about 6 hours left to run at present rates.

The contents should appear at the Internet Archive in about a month or so, it'll take time to move it all there.

Tracker status below:

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus2/

#googleplus #gplusrefugees #plexodus #archiveTeam #internetArchive

OMG - grade erst den Wayback Link entdeckt ...
replace "" here with your G+ profile page:

https://web.archive.org/save/_

https://web.archive.org/save/plus.google.com/117537643639420487572

#googleplusrefugee
#googleplus
#gplus

#googleplus
I've spent the evening in an extended and tender goodbye to my G+ community.
Don't Leave Me This Way

If you have Docker installed, the following command will help preserve Google Plus: docker run --publish 127.0.0.1:8001:8001 --restart always archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile

#GooglePlus #Plexodus #ArchiveTeam #InternetArchive

https://twitter.com/SteveMcLaugh/status/1112433277359529984

I'm just sitting here watching the smaps go round and round...

The Archive Team Google+ project tracker is smoking.

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus/

And it's got to go faster.

Grab a Warrior and pitch in if you can!

(Got bandwidth, storage, CPU, and modest l33t ski1z? You can help!)

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior

#GooglePlus #GplusRefugees #Plexodus #ArchiveTeam #InternetArchive #GoogleMinus

A set of 604 curated "locally notable" G+ profiles

https://pastebin.com/raw/0Wh4BJah

This list comes from a set of contributions from +Eli Fennell's listing here:

https://plus.google.com/110619855408549015935/posts/XrZkNKam1Jo

Though not strictly-speaking "signal flares", I've submitted the profiles to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine (scripted via the "Save" URL) -- that part took about 90 seconds. Sorting out grabbing all the profile names and IDs from G+ HTML (and wrestling with local systems) a couple of hours.

A really good reason to pin a #signalflare post is that that pinned post WILL SHOW UP IN THE INTERNET ARCHIVE when saved.

(I'll schedule another save or few of this through April 2.)

This'd be a good set of folks to keep tabs on and through whom to find others.

I'll be adding this to the #PlexodusWiki Notable Names Database (NNDB) ... eventually:

https://social.antefriguserat.de/

https://pastebin.com/raw/0Wh4BJah

#GooglePlus #GplusRefugees #Plexodus #SignalFlare #GplusContacts

Hallo,

da es nun bei G+ dem Ende zu geht und plus.google.com/+CarstenSchmidt schon bald nicht mehr erreichbar, wird es Zeit in der Diaspora zu neuen Ufern aufzubrechen.
Ich bin nicht wirklich ein sehr aktiver G+ Teilnehmer gewesen, doch ist einiges über die Jahre zusammengekommen. Und es schmerzt dann doch, diese Erinnerungen quasi zu verlieren. Zusammen mit einem Konstrukt, das ich als sehr komfortabel empfand.
Google Bashing hin oder her.

#googleplusrefugee #massmigration #googleplus #gplus #pluspora #neuhier

Large and recently-active Google+ Communities dataset

A dataset of 103,188 larger and more-recently-active Google+ Communities is now available online, from my Google Drive account:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pc_QmZE_RsGt2Irvm_BgEbFjRBssUOD9

This may be of interest to those who are seeking to contact active or thriving Google+ communities, to archive them, or to otherwise work with identified active communities.
What is this?

This is a subset of the full 8.1 million Google+ Communities, the vast majority of which have little or no publicly-visible activity or members. The subset does show both an appreciable membership and some degree of recent activity. Not every community in this list is active and healthy, but the ones that are are likely to be found here.

There's additional information, including membership counts, activity levels (visible posts, comments, plus-ones, and reshares), and some derived statistics, plus community titles, which may be useful in identifying communities highly likely to be active.

The file is a gzipped (compressed) textfile with comma-separated values, data fields in the first record. 103,189 records total.

More at #PlexodusReddit....

#GooglePlus #GplusRefugies #Plexodus #PlexodusReddit #SocialMedia #DataAnalyis #rstats

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/b06agd/large_and_recentlyactive_google_communities/

Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun

TL;DR: Most public Google+ content should live on at the Internet Archive thanks to a fanatical bunch of volunteers, and you can help.

Rather more at the link 😃

#GooglePlus #GPlusExodus #GPlusRefugees #PlexodusReddit #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #ArchiveTeam #GoogleMinus

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/az285j/saving_of_public_google_content_at_the_internet/

Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun

The archiving of _public_ Google+ content to the [Internet Archive](https://web.archive.org/) by the [ArchiveTeam](https://www.archiveteam.org/)...