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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Touche...

Pour one out for project Ara, everyone... And the hundreds of other companies that had a bright future before Google bought and destroyed them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a decade later, and I'm still bitter about Google Reader's unceremonious execution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta be Google Play Music I'm still bitter about. YouTube music doesn't hold a candle to it, and I've never quite been as happy with Spotify or Apple Music. Getting YT Premium with a good music service was great too, but they shot themselves in the foot.

And there's was just... no reason for it. They even delayed its death when they realized how crap YT Music was, and then later just... decided to do it anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was so upset about it that I almost de-Googled. And I was all-in on the Google ecosystem. In the end I begrudgingly continued on because I didn’t have the time or energy to find replacements for everything.

But yes, I’m still angry over it. I like NewsBlur, it does everything I need, but I still miss Google Reader, and I would go back to it in a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

SAME. I use Netvibes and Feedly now, but I miss the social aspect - sharing stuff and having friends' feeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can't buy lemmy itself but only instances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Google play music : ..(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Feel the Fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google made a huge mistake shutting down Google+. If they had built it out to integrate with Youtube, where people could have a space to Tweet, have a Main Page feed like Facebook, and post videos all in the same platform, they would have dominated the market.

I still have a hard time believing that no-one has created a platform that encompasses all of those things. Meta is doing it piece-meal but it's all disorganized. It should be one unified platform.

That's why I hope some developers start working on a way to integrate Lemmy and Mastodon and like.. PeerTube together into a single frontend. I'd love to be able to manage my Mastodon posts and BS on Lemmy in the same website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Shadesto @MargotRobbie AFAIK YouTube did have google plus integration but it was optional.