It's Official: MySpace is Making a Comeback
gamerant.com
Decades after its original launch on the internet, MySpace is reportedly gearing up to make a comeback to the social media sphere.
  • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    2 days ago

    Let’s jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone’s data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

    Apparently we’re incapable of learning this lesson.

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Don’t care, man. Facebook made me hate the whole concept of selling my friends and family to a corpo syndicate in order to… communicate with them. I can text, man.

  • glowie@infosec.pubEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    Crazy to think this site single-handedly had cheerleaders learning HTML back in the day

  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I’m good on social media. Used both Myspace and Facebook. My mental health is so much better not being on them.

  • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    They are going to fuck it up, I guarantee it. AI everywhere and the most dog shit UI. Look at digg as an example.

  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    My favorite iteration of MySpace was the first one. No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean before that.

    The domain was owned by a company that had jumped on the bandwagon of offering online file storage, that thing which is now called cloud storage. Much like OneDrive or Google Drive, etc.

    MySpace offered 300MB for free, which was the largest I found at the time. Also the name actually made sense.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I just visited digg.com and got redirected to digg.com/tech. The article titles are

        And the content appears to be AI-generated summaries of Twitter conversations. Phenomenal.

        An older version of the website just redirected to digg.com/ai (“AI news, before it trends”, and the archived copy seems to have an ironically oversized Twitter logo).

        Poor Digg. If they’d only come around a year or two earlier, they could’ve made bank selling NFTs.

  • AverageEarthling@feddit.onlineEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Nice! That one Weird Al song will be relevant again! Unless it’s exactly like it was, HTML and all, I’m not going back. I still have my old profile in a zip file somewhere on my NAS.

      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Can we talk about how Tom got his gazillions, fucked off, and is leading a great life without being a blowhard self-important cunt? He’s the hero we didn’t know we had.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    A few more moves like this and “two cans and a string” will finally take off. I’ve been saving cans and string all my life, just for this near future moment. My ship will finally come in and now everyone who is sorry will be sorry! /s