And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!
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.
It was the fully HTML customizable pages that did it for me.
We should go all the way back to Livejournal, it was the best.
MySpace did have the Top 8 feature, which was weird and toxic as hell. Rate your favorite friends and family members!
Yeah I really hated when they introduced that feature. People would always say to me, “wHy ArEn’T i In yOuR tOp 8?” Drove me crazy.
Now people don’t say anything at all because I’m 37 don’t have friends anymore.
Oh man this almost slipped my memory. Top 8 was fire in middle school. The second dagger of a breakup when you got removed.
that’s it, you’re # 9 now
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.
That was the original plan for MySpace though.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eImN9tcqMr0
Back when everyone’s big business idea was get a bunch of users to build an audience with a free service, and then “turn on the ads” to start making money.
Things have definitely changed since then. /s
I that channel
MySpace wasn’t better than Facebook when Facebook first started. There’s a reason everyone moved to Facebook, but once Facebook killed its competitors it proceeded to enshitify.
Facebook was cleaner and more organized. The thing we loved so much about Myspace was the CSS hacking and linking in mp3’s. But we aged out of that and just wanted to see old school buddies and the status of family members.
And it had a pretty generous photo upload limit too, back in the day
Thats because the era MySpace was created in, and died in.
If myspace was created 10 years later, it’d be the same festering cesspit that facebook was.
There was nothing special about myspace other than the time it was created, before enshitification had really hit the internet.
its been a few hours since I made this post, and I was thinking… and yeah, myspace represents an era, of pre-enshitified internet, and thats really why people remember it fondly. They remember the good times, not just with myspace, but all around it, when the internet was still interesting and not corporatified.
Just like how I remember AOL fondly, not because it was a good thing (cause it certainly fuckin wasnt), but because it was my portal to an era of the internet. Chatrooms, and webrings, and guest books, and page hit counters, and late nights talking about interesting shit with people from the other side of the world, before search google, before advertising, before enshitification.
AOL wasnt a good thing, Its the window, the memory focus, the prism, which I look through to remember all the good things around it.
Idk, we shouldn’t act like MySpace didn’t start getting into doing that though. Everyone doing a L4L, or comment for comment, etc. it was always about ‘oh you want your numbers up? Let’s trade, like for like’.
MySpace was the shit, but we shouldn’t pretend it was perfect.
https://spacehey.com/ <- revisit the nightmare
You know, if it makes non-techy people have to interact with CSS and HTML, I’m all for it
Suddenly; Tila Tequila.
Hey but at least on my space you could put dick pics up there and get away with it. I mean allegedly of course.
that is one problem among many including extreme right wing troll bot farms and AI generated content
Not every emotion, mostly fear and anger.
