• bgh251f2@lemmy.eco.br
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      Orkut didn’t have a death spiral, it was murdered.

      Brazilians are still angry of it’s demise.

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        Nah, most people migrated to facebook overtime and when it was shutdown people barely used it anymore

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          No, it was still heavily used on Brazil and India.

          We only migrated because it was shutting down.

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            As a Brazilian, this is not the perception I had. I stayed until it migrated to G+ and then shut and none of my contacts were ever online and barely any community I followed had any kind of movement, I’d say that the great majority of people had already left for Facebook

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              This was in great part because we felt there was already an abandonment of the network. No updates and less money, with google already focusing on an alternative. Of course people would use it less.

              And the news point to it decreasing but being the third biggest. A little investment would have made it grow. It’s like what’s happening on reddit with the CEO murdering the site.

              You know twitter barely gets on the top 10 today, and even so it’s considered very big.

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            Here is a news at that time showing how facebook was smashing orkut way before its shutdown in 2014