Hey, remember the first #enshittification of #Google, when every single Google app got #GPlus awkwardly crammed into it because individual googlers’ bonuses were calculated based on how and whether they got people to use G+?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-ceo-tells-employees-it-needs-all-hands-on-deck-to-test-bard.html

@pluralistic ohh, I didn't realize that was why! After they killed Wave, I was briefly a Google+ engineer (like everyone else at Google) but I quit soon after.

@pluralistic Oh JFC.

@pluralistic "Everyone get a small baggie, we're dog*ahem* fooding! Yes food!"

@pamelafox never realized you worked on wave, i briefly used it in like 2009 or 2010 to run a twelve person class slack/bulletin board/whatever. it weirdly worked but it was confusing as hell even with so few people. ended up abandoning it and replacing it was a tiny world writable webapp for asking questions async