Derek Ross on Nostr: Google+ was great and more active than Twitter. It failed because Vic Gundotra left ...
Google+ was great and more active than Twitter. It failed because Vic Gundotra left and no longer had anyone championing it, IMO. Then they merged several departments together and it all went to shit after the redesign and focus on communities. I had 4M followers there.
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