Schadenfreude

[firecat]

Google+ traffic is down 37% in the last 18 days. (I'm surprised that post doesn't mention #nymwars as one of the possible causes.)

Zornhau on LJ made up a new word: Googlekaze.

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[lorres.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking a good deal about it because I get excited, but to make it an exciting place to be my friends have to be there too. If five friends are there it's ok but I log in and see their same posts over and over. I 'm used to a stream of around 50-75 people. Without that stream of friends and conversation - and I mean net friends of mine from the last - urk - twenty years - it feels flat. And why go to the trouble of mainintaining an account for five friends if they're already available through other platforms? I haven't found enough of a reason.

With G+ in particular the nymn wars have pissed me off.

I don't mind interacting with strangers on tumblr because my interests there happen to be almost exclusively with images. But verbally interacting with more and more new groups of strangers is where the fatigue sets in with me. I would LOVE for all my friends to migrate to Diaspora, even though it is still very rough around the edges. But I don't see it happening. **sigh**