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
If you'd asked me if the utility of DuckDuckGo would ever catch up to Google, I would have said "No" and I would have been wrong. If I'd been naive & optimistic instead, a "yes" would have been right for the wrong reasons.

Though DuckDuckGo results are inferior (sorry…they are) it's my default search engine with Google as my fallback. The gap between DDG and Google results quality is closing because Goog is making itself worse not because DDG is catching up. Peak enshittification.

@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