Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

Post by totony » Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

slightwinder wrote: post #268

brandall10 wrote: post #265

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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.

Post by pmlnr » Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 3:33 PM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #259

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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…

Graphics or audio needs some sort of talent and ever-so-tiny amount of skills with some editing program to make it work. Text needs merely a QWERTY (or touchscreen) keyboard, and the ability to compose text in the natural language of your choice (which most are able to do by the age of 10, barring low-literacy areas). In that sense, text is much cheaper to use for self-expression, even though necessarily limited. On…

Post by slightwinder » Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 3:49 PM UTC

brandall10 wrote: post #272

slightwinder wrote: post #268

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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.

There’s explicit marketing and implicit marketing. That you could search the population by age/height/hair color/relationship status meant implicitly, it was a dating site, albeit a crude one. No one was misusing it for this purpose, it was obviously intended to be used this way by MySpace itself. I agree that not everyone wanted to use it that way and that was part of the friction in the platform... it was kinda mea…

Post by brandall10 » Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

slightwinder wrote: post #275

brandall10 wrote: post #272

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There’s explicit marketing and implicit marketing. That you could search the population by age/height/hair color/relationship status meant implicitly, it was a dating site, albeit a crude one. No one was misusing it for this purpose, it was obviously intended to be used this way by MySpace itself. I agree that not everyone wanted to use it that way and that was part of the friction in the platform... it was kinda mea…

> That you could search the population by age/height/hair color/relationship status meant implicitly, it was a dating site, albeit a crude one. In the first place it means they knew about a problem, and searched for ways to solve it. It does not mean they wanted to enforce it and spread it. Relationship status is a big hint there. Yes, there is nothing wrong with annoying people who want to be annoyed. But ignorantly…

Post by totony » Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

slightwinder wrote: post #276

totony wrote: post #271

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There are inherent sexual dynamics in any social circle, be it myspace, facebook or the workplace. I don't think the current trend of perceiving any unwanted sexual interest as inherently bad is at all healthy for society. P.S: i know and remember a lot of my friends who found their S.O. through facebook so it being alive arguanly disproves the assumption behind >Kinda speaks for that myspace failed so fast...

> There are inherent sexual dynamics in any social circle, Yes, it maybe there, but no, It's only a problem if people make it one. It's not there by default and unavoidable. > I don't think the current trend of perceiving any unwanted sexual interest as inherently bad is at all healthy for society. That's a pretty hostile view. > P.S: i know and remember a lot of my friends who found their S.O. through facebook so it…