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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by slightwinder »

meekmockmook wrote: post #55

As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…

> It used to be that I could click "browse," find a cute girl's profile, say hi, and set up a date within a few days.

Maybe this digital cat-calling lead to this:

> Modern social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group. Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad.

People just don't like to be annoyed by random strangers. Especially woman and specificaly when it's about molesting them.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by shalltell »

davidsojevic wrote: post #236

Looking great so far. When MySpace was at its peak, I used to run one of those "style your profile" type websites that let you generate custom CSS and all those fun things. I should try and dig it out and see if it works on SpaceHey! Just a small CSS tip for your header and footer menus -- instead of using ::before/::after pseudo elements in your anchors themselves, if you place the menu items in a list you can use t…

If it's not IE6 compatible, it's not authentic.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by friendlybus »

meekmockmook wrote: post #55

As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…

Reminds me of Howard Beale's closing speech in Network.

What is finished... is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods... Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word. Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things...

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by silveroriole »

pmlnr wrote: post #253
alelos wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try the 'small web', I'm enjoying gemini, https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Here's the thing: gopher & gemini are, in a sense, like Facebook: extremely uniform. In that sense, they are not even BBSes, because it's practically impossible to convey self expression beyond text. Don't get me wrong: one can easily get lost in gopherholes with 20+ years of content, but it's always only content. In contrast the web of the early 2000s was awesome, because you already could do a lot of really weird t…

The bouncing mouse balls, flash animations, pixel dollz, and spinning flame skulls of the 2000s were mostly copied off other sites. So sure, that’s self-expression, but only in the same sense that decorating your bedroom with posters is self-expression. When it’s just text, EVERYTHING on the site is your own words. It’s all from the author. I think that’s a more ‘pure’ self-expression.

If you like the geocities style more, then you can use neocities.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by brandall10 »

slightwinder wrote: post #261
meekmockmook wrote: post #55

As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…

> It used to be that I could click "browse," find a cute girl's profile, say hi, and set up a date within a few days. Maybe this digital cat-calling lead to this: > Modern social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group. Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad. People just don't like to be annoyed by random strangers. Especially woman and specificaly when it's about molesting them.

With all due respect, MySpace was a dating site for many of both sexes. They even had a search filter based on physical attributes like any dating site.

I had a female friend set up my profile specifically for this purpose in early 2006. Within hours after signing up a random girl sent me a message to ask if I had a girlfriend. The following week I went out on 3 dates. By the end of the year I met about 30 women in person and probably went out with a dozen multiple times, until shutting things when one became my girlfriend.

Facebook was setup to work differently and I never used it for this purpose, instead moving on to OKCupid when I was single again in 2011.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by adventured »

gonzo41 wrote: post #251
corytheboyd wrote: post #186

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> The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms It’s funny, because when Facebook was new my friends and I flocked to it FOR the uniformity! Little did we know we helped contribute to the downfall of the free and fun internet :/

Also democracy, don't forget democracy is also a victim. :P

It is a well known fact that the 20th century was overflowing with amazing democracy. We had democracy coming out of ears back then. Then Facebook came along and destroyed all that vast success humans have had with implementing and upholding fair democratic systems all over the world. It was utopia until 2007-2008 when Facebook went mainstream.

Wait, I got that all backwards. The world is more democratic today than it was in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s. Facebook is a recent convenient scapegoat for the same problems humanity has had with organizing fair systems of government for thousands of years, and it's a particularly intellectually lazy scapegoat at that.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by turing_complete »

userbinator wrote: post #192
mrzool wrote: post #122

I'm absolutely blown away by the speed of this website. Facebook and Twitter are a bloated heavy mess in comparison. I just registered for an account and I'm getting super nostalgic. Really well done! Edit: here's my profile in case someone wants to add me :) https://spacehey.com/mrzool

That's what 10 years of hardware improvements actually looks like without 10 corresponding years of software degradation.

I feel like the hackernews-driven framework hype cycle contributes to this degradation. Unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by slightwinder »

brandall10 wrote: post #265
slightwinder wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It used to be that I could click "browse," find a cute girl's profile, say hi, and set up a date within a few days. Maybe this digital cat-calling lead to this: > Modern social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group. Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad. People just don't like to be annoyed by random strangers. Especially woman and specificaly when it's about molesting them.

With all due respect, MySpace was a dating site for many of both sexes. They even had a search filter based on physical attributes like any dating site. I had a female friend set up my profile specifically for this purpose in early 2006. Within hours after signing up a random girl sent me a message to ask if I had a girlfriend. The following week I went out on 3 dates. By the end of the year I met about 30 women in p…

It wasn't build as a dating-site and it wasn't sold as a dating-place. That some people misused it that way, doesn't mean every user is ok with this and likes to be annoyed by sex-spam. Kinda speaks for that myspace failed so fast...

We have the algorithm-drived services with all their control and reduced friction because some people just can't behave well and must destroy the nice things for everyone.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by wtf_is_up »

lovegoblin wrote: post #112
idclip wrote: post #74

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Not an SJW here, actually a political minority here ... i see a moderate amount of moderation and banning pf groups where i hang. Sure its not china but we are not using that asa standard .. and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his comment provoked yours ..

> SJW Hah people still use this term unironically?

t. SJW
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