And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!
The original owners are saying they want to relaunch MySpace, but they will likely fill it with LLM slop and drivel and create profit-making algorithms while saying they are going to do otherwise.
If they don’t make it a federated platform, it will inevitably enshitify.
I vaguely recall being disappointed at how limited Facebook was compared to Myspace. I forget the specifics, but it seemed like people posting their stories, art, and music went from normal on Myspace to a rarity on Facebook. Maybe there was a structural reason or maybe it was coincidence… so long ago, back before the world ended in 2012 but nobody noticed.
I didn’t use MySpace, but I would imagine people saw others as people posting stuff on a community board at that point. Instead of a detached voice inside their computer.
Less pedos too. They didn’t know how to use computers, but the next generation was learning on Myspace
I had some dude try to flirt with me on ezboard when I was 16. He offered to send a photo. My friend was with me when I got the photo and we just laughed. It was some dude probably in his 30s at least with a handlebar moustache.
Now creeps are a fat balding lecher in bed, commenting from somewhere in South America.
Or a scambot.
I forget how the boards on Myspace worked, but they definitely were there as I remember chatting on them with other freshmen before moving in to college. One of the people even ended up being a close friend and eventual room mate, and this wasn’t a small school.
Facebook started really taking off that fall of freshman year and I imagine most that socialization moved there by 07.
Yeah all my MySpace friends were people I made friends with on forum sites. And we were actually friends that actually spoke and messaged other. Novel concept for ‘social’ media, I know.
i had a couple tumblr friends like that. truly a different time
Except for Tom.
Tom was hangin out on yachts with all his bitches!
…and by that I mean he had a few dogs who happened to be female.
But also less people didn’t used pseudonymous names. Like, are you crazy now? MaryKay@gmail.com and your actual name is Mary Kay, that’s just asking for it. They should do their thing and use cool names like BDSMenthusiast2012@proton.com.
MaryKay is a BDSM enthusiast? Mary Kay sounds fun!
I don’t know, I don’t know her personally, I don’t know if she likes the things she does in my imagined persona.
I remember mySpace and it kinda sucked. That’s not to say things are better today, but it did suck.
Narrator: It did not in fact suck.
MySpace (and a lot of early social media) was about keeping up with what was going on in your friends lives, not screaming into the void and being drowned out by brands and influencers (like I am doing now).
Might have been the last time a business owner said, “That’s enough money for me.”
Word on the street, and I mean literally only the one word and one street, is that MySpace is coming back? And that it’s marketing itself to a politically progressive user base ala Bluesky. I haven’t been able to verify the veracity of this claim and go figure the one time I went to go look at MySpace, it was down at the time.
I will not make the Fediverse suffer the music I made in college like I did MySpace.
Why not? Are we not good enough for you? 😭
I always thought that kind of social media was a recipe for bad times. Alas, most people don’t care or think much, so here we are.
i have stopped saying good bye to people when i’m leaving in favor of a jaunty ‘don’t forget to like and subscribe’
Whats annoying is that is proven to work, ppl do that and see an uptick
well it’s resulted in three giggles and a dude pinching my ass and telling me that he always rings the notification bell.
I can see it working on kids. Maybe because I only watch YouTube on browser not logged in, so it’s a default thing to not like and subscribe. I really only tend to login to the app if there’s a smaller creator I’d like to give a boost to.
When a channel aimed at a grown up audience does it, especially when they do the stupid ringing bell animation, I just find it tacky and it makes me NOT want to subscribe. Smaller channels getting started I can give a pass to, but bigger channels? It’s kinda sad.
Moriah Elizabeth has 10M subscribers and I don’t remember her ever asking for likes and subscribes (and a lot of her fanbase IS kids).
MySpace sucked. Thats my hot take. I lived through it, I know how much it sucked. Hence why we all abandoned it ASAP. You know its all true.
How hard is out to just not buy things? Marketing doesn’t work if you don’t spend any money.
you vote don’t you? and even if you don’t your equipment will eventually need to be replaced and your food repurchased.
Hey but at least on my space you could put dick pics up there and get away with it. I mean allegedly of course.
and the profile customization made geocities aesthetic blush at times.
