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Google Plus is Shutting Down!

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:23:00 -0400

Could be an opportunity specifically for #Hubzilla, #Osada, #Zap, #Socialhome, and #diaspora.

Non-enterprise Google+ will shutdown on 2019-08-31. It's not clear if Business Pages and Community Groups are included. Since these two are integral and were built on top of Google+, hundreds if not thousands of Pages and Groups have to find a new home, a new platform.

(Cross-posted to !Hubzilla Advocacy group.)

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after a vulnerability exposed 500,000 users personal data.

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Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:27:07 -0400

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:54:16 -0400

Will it take them a year to close the service???

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:17:05 -0400

They probably still need to separate the public and business G+ platforms completely and give a chance for the users of the public platform to export whatever they need to keep. 10 months left.

Personally, I think they were already planning to do this, things were pushed early because of the discovery of the hack. They've completely forgotten about it, and with the exemption of Feedburner (since it probably doesn't consume much), they tend to shutdown forgotten products.

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:41:34 -0400

Hah. Would be cool if linus moved here ðŸ˜ƒ

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:51:22 -0400

They promised to provide ability to move Google+ account to other social networks.
Quite interesting how it will be done.

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:13:36 -0400

to other social networks

I doubt they'll ever consider the fediverse

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:09:57 -0400 last edited: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:10:10 -0400

@Nick Ka Yep, but hopefully it will be some export file as well so we will have a chance to import it to Hubzilla somehow. I recalling the announce on common Data Transfer Protocol.

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:56:39 -0400

Ahh, yep, the Data Transfer. This will be a very good time to implement it fully and see it in action.

I think for the Fediverse it's just a matter of who's willing to code it. The way I understood DTP is it's sort of a unified "language" or set of data. How to label and arrange "boxes" so other networks can unbox it properly for their own use and system.

And then submitting to the DTP the transfer and auth code for a particular service/software so the DTP itself can handle it and make it automatic, without the user needing to export and import manually.

At least it's how I understood it.