Lemmy is still going to be here because it's not a Google product.

I don't really get what the hate was for Google+, it was better than the alternative/competitor at the time (Facebook)

In 12 years, selfhosting will be so cheap and one-push-button easy that everyone will have their own instance and federated with each other. It will be called Neo-Geocities 2.0.

I hate the name Lemmy, there, I said it .. as much as I hated the name Google+

This is why you should never adopt Google services, there's a high chance they will kill it off given their awful track record.

RIP

The beauty of the Fediverse is that no single entity controls it... In 12 years, I'd wager we're still around.

Sorry, I'm in the minority that actually liked Google+.

I kind of feel like a single Lemmy instance will ~~domonate~~ dominate and become the defacto instance that everyone just joins.

I remember getting a few of my friends to try G+ with me, then getting in and realizing we were the only ones there. Feels like Lemmy already has more people than that ghost town ever did.

I hope that it'll look less buggy. Today was awful.

Only place I've ever accidentally uploaded a dick pic and so glad I had like 2 friends on there who never checked lol. It was a fun 2 weeks.

Google+ didn't work because they didn't push it hard enough and they made it an invite only beta instead of just allowing everyone to join.

Yes - I'm being serious they didn't push it hard enough. If you had a Gmail or YouTube account it should have just instantly become a Google+ account in some sort of private mode so it doesn't inadvertently leak your info.

If they would have just pushed it out to everyone, day one, mandatory, no opt out, then we'd still have Google+ today.

Like if they made Google Talk the default messaging client on Android we'd still have Google Talk. I don't recall Apple making iMessage an optional messaging app you don't have to use.

I feel like the fediverse is already way more active than what Google+ ever was.

I wonder if civilization will last 12 years

I honestly hope lemmy will not die. It will have to become simpler though. For many people, it will be simply way too complicated to wrap their head around the fact of many instances and most of them will worry about not being able to interact with people from other instances.

Also, the main lemmy web app is not necessarily good and alternatives such as wefwef are far easier to use.

I mean this post has 1200 upvotes. Considering most people don't engage with the voting system that makes me think that there's a decent amount of people here. At the very least it means there's a lot of people here who engage with the community. More come every day. If this post were on Reddit, it would be on r/all right now. That's not bad for a community with a fraction of the users.

I think that in 10 years this place will be doing alright. I think the growth that's happened in the last few months won't last, but I think that growth will still steadily happen. The reddexodus doesn't happen every day but with most social media platforms shitting their geriatric pants more and more lately, I think a consistent flow of refugees will come here.

I actually liked Google plus… but like everything Google create, they killed it.

Anyone remembers wave? Or what was it called - was definitely ahead of its time.

By then I predict the big corp news media will report on Lemmy like it’s the new 4chan. Unmoderated instances that no major instance links to will give them plenty of ammunition. Non technical users will believe it to the frustration of all Lemmy.

Not trying to be a downer when they attack you, you know you’re winning

Original Google+ before nymwars was so good. The photo walks and the community was amazing.

If Reddit can make it for 12+ years, I’m sure Lemmy can too!

The difference is that Google+ tried to be Facebook. And Lemmy is just Lemmy.

Geez it's just so incredibly sad to me that facebook has survived this long and even THRIVED while probably being the worst version of what they do, and being the most evil doing it

I loved Google+ at the time but I was invested in the Google services ecosystem back then.