Now if we could get - a few proper web frontends (and especially one like Google+), - groups (like Google+, WhatsApp, Telegram) then this would start to loo

Now if we could get - a few proper web frontends (and especially one like Google+), - groups (like Google+, WhatsApp, Telegram) then this would start to look seriously promising. I'd happily pay a 20-40 bucks a year for that and (if Telegram didn't exist) a bit more to get a hosted but private instance for my extended family. (That said I have been experimenting with hubzilla this year and it seems seriously promising but all instances seems to be locked down really hard or doesn't acvept new members and testing on my own instance alone doesn't really give me a feel for how it works in practice.)