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minus-squareAdmiral PatricklinkfedilinkEnglish39•1 year agoDidn’t Google+ do that? It’s been so long since that debacle I honestly don’t remember.
minus-square@Sylver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish71•1 year agoYouTube did it when Google bought them and changed everyone’s unique username to their Google account (real) name
minus-square@brbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year ago Looks like they prodded but didn’t unilaterally force.
minus-square@ArbiterXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish28•1 year agoWorse, StarCraft tried it lol. Major blizzard fuckup
minus-square@Dvixen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoFacebook did it as well, maybe a couple years after opening up to the non university crowd. Neither FB at the time or G+ years later gave any thought that their no pseudonym policies put someone’s safety at risk.
minus-squareZagorathlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoGoogle+ was a Facebook-like social media. It was only ever supposed to be real names, so no issue.
Didn’t Google+ do that?
It’s been so long since that debacle I honestly don’t remember.
YouTube did it when Google bought them and changed everyone’s unique username to their Google account (real) name
wtf that’s a terrible decision lol
Looks like they prodded but didn’t unilaterally force.
Worse, StarCraft tried it lol. Major blizzard fuckup
Facebook did it as well, maybe a couple years after opening up to the non university crowd. Neither FB at the time or G+ years later gave any thought that their no pseudonym policies put someone’s safety at risk.
Google+ was a Facebook-like social media. It was only ever supposed to be real names, so no issue.