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Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by andai »

emursebrian wrote: post #17

I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it. I was all too happy to move over to Facebook and leave MySpace behind. For me, the exodus from MySpace to Facebook marks the inflection point were smaller internet communities died and were replaced with services from megacorps. At the time, MySpace was an echo of free homepage sites on providers like AngelFire and Geocities. My friend group had moved…

Can you tell me more about that? The cool interactive content. I'd love to hear more details about your experience and what you miss.

For me the main thing I miss is Flash. I know there's Ruffle as Flashplayer replacement but the culture around Flash (and most of the authoring tools) has basically died.

(I talked to a bunch of Flash animators I knew back in the day and every single one was surprised to hear that Flash is still available, they just changed the name. Big fail on Adobe's part...)

As for the cute 90s and 2000s web designs, have you seen NeoCities? That spirit is alive and well there :)

The other thing I miss is that everyone would put their email in their form signature and you could just add everyone on MSN. People were super chill in those days, I made a lot of friends that way.

Nowadays the only unsolicited messages I get are from people trying to sell me something.

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by tacktal »

iansmith_hn wrote: post #2

Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...

I feel bad for you then if this is all you remember about Myspace.

I met so many cool people in real life I never would have other wise it would be hard to even count.

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by duxup »

iansmith_hn wrote: post #2

Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...

I could go for some pages that look bad vs the homogenized social media where everyone's page is the same.

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by AznHisoka »

pessimizer wrote: post #42
marginalia_nu wrote: post #14

I can see why people might want it to come back, but I don't think bringing it back will bring back the good old days. Much of that was made the early web less shit was people being more mentally stable by having most of their social interactions happen for real offline, rather than clinging like Harlow's monkey to a simulacrum of togetherness mediated via a screen like we do today.

What people want back is the crazy innovation of getting every one of your friends' updates unless you have intentionally muted them, in chronological order. It was also nice to decorate your page. Made it yours.

There is also an age factor. As we get older, people simply are way too busy to update others on their life. Or we recognize that most people simply do not care.

That is something that can never come back, no matter what changes a social network implements

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by memonkey »

andai wrote: post #51
emursebrian wrote: post #17

I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it. I was all too happy to move over to Facebook and leave MySpace behind. For me, the exodus from MySpace to Facebook marks the inflection point were smaller internet communities died and were replaced with services from megacorps. At the time, MySpace was an echo of free homepage sites on providers like AngelFire and Geocities. My friend group had moved…

Can you tell me more about that? The cool interactive content. I'd love to hear more details about your experience and what you miss. For me the main thing I miss is Flash. I know there's Ruffle as Flashplayer replacement but the culture around Flash (and most of the authoring tools) has basically died. (I talked to a bunch of Flash animators I knew back in the day and every single one was surprised to hear that Flas…

Ah, also Newgrounds

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by tylerchilds »

andai wrote: post #50

> "You could be authentic on MySpace," she says. "Upload raw images, no filters. You could have snot coming out your nose and nobody would judge." Did that have to do with the website or with the culture of the entire internet? Or maybe the entire world? I heard a prediction that ultra low production value (e.g. live streaming in a bathrobe) will become a great community building strategy over the next year or two, b…

When MySpace came out browsers were only able to upload images and not manipulate them with filters like today.

Now cameras on devices like the iPhone will auto “enhance” at the system camera layer

Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

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Post by kunai »

appplication wrote: post #43
estearum wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man yeah... that's some heartbreaking stuff. I was (oddly) relieved to see that these horrible experiments actually did lead to improvements in how humans raised their young. > Physical contact with infants was considered harmful to their development, and this view led to sterile, contact-less nurseries across the country. A view which these experiments apparently contested, and now is probably widely regarded as abh…

I was amazed reading this: > Critics of Harlow's research have observed that clinging is a matter of survival in young rhesus monkeys, but not in humans, and have suggested that his conclusions, when applied to humans, overestimate the importance of contact comfort and underestimate the importance of nursing. I don’t know how one (especially anyone who has raised a child) could think contact is less important in huma…

> I don’t know how one (especially anyone who has raised a child) could think contact is less important in humans or that this doesn’t generalize.

Look around this forum, and all of the rampant fealty and worship towards LLMs and the mythical blood sacrifices made to the vaporware AGI god, or asociable people bragging about how Claude is a better friend, co-worker, and (rare but I've seen it) romantic partner than actual human beings.

Plenty of people out there, more than we're willing to admit, are callous, unfeeling, unempathetic, and uncaring. They may not rise to the level of outright sociopathy or psychopathy, but they generally do not regard emotions highly, negative or positive. This archetype is overrepresented in academia and science, so make of that what you will.

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