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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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for it to be legitimate you need to use ColdFusion and then do a half assed port to .net.

Hilariously, ColdFusion strikes again. I should have used pound signs around the bad_memories variable. The above code would dump the string "bad_memories".

Corrected:

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Hilariously, ColdFusion strikes again. I should have used pound signs around the bad_memories variable. The above code would dump the string "bad_memories". Corrected:

I still can't believe someone came up with this syntax and thought it was a good idea.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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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…

These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.

This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance.

There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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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

Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world served from a raspberry pi than twitter is.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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I live and breathe on the internet and have never been moderated once, even freely expressing myself, insulting people who deserve it, etc. My point here is that if you think the current social media options have "heavy handed" moderation, you're probably the problem, not them.

That just means your views are not very controversial (most people’s aren’t). The argument you’re making is just a different face of the “I have nothing to hide” in the privacy debates.

“I have nothing to hide” why even say that on a hacker-site? Of course everyone has, the rules and behaviours that make one oneself. If those behaviours and the bugs within them can be replicated, one becomes a easily manipulated puppet, a zombie going were ones master wants one to go, without any reason and lots of emotions, maybe occasionally wondering why ones actions result consistently in outcomes against ones own interest.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.

This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance. There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.

A world without newsfeeds and algorithmically/SEO driven culture wars? A world without our social lives being manipulated by shady Big Tech firms and VCs, free of corporate surveillance? A man can dream.
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