You know, when things like #myspace and #facebook started popping up, I was smart enough at about 13 years old to think "Hey, I bet you this is gonna get used to manipulate people politically in my lifetime," and usually got ignored by folks older than me as some kind of kid-like conspiracy.
Nobody took the idea seriously until it happened.
It's likely the most dangerous #tech that exists in the world. Maybe more so than nukes.
I was smarter at 13 than most Americans.
I was active in my local music scene in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. I’m trying to recover music from local bands I used to listen to and finding if they’re available anywhere online- and a lot of music isn’t. It’s sad to know how much media might be lost forever.
If anyone can suggest how I can recover some bands music or where to search I’d be grateful! #music #opensource #myspace #archive #data
What do you get if you combine #Myspace & #Bluesky? It's ##SkySpace! https://skyspace.me/?youronly.one Now can someone combine #Friendster & Bluesky next? Or, maybe, #Plurk & Bluesky?
. @an says he wants https://spacehey.com to join the Fediverse.
@spacehey is a social-network that will likely remind you a lot of MySpace.
Looks fun!
SpaceHey: A Fan-made Tribute to MySpace https://theawesomer.com/spacehey-a-tribute-to-myspace/761992/
"#MySpace pages, Media player skins, the eye searingly gaudy hot dog stand theme. These all were vectors for #selfexpression. But to offer these #freedoms, you have to trust the person operating your system, honour their agency, and respect them as a serious intellectual partner instead of a gibbering idiot to be manipulated for your own ends.
…personal computing needs to make a firm return to normative #design practises.
#TheUser is dead. Long live #PersonalComputing!"
Ground control to Myspace Tom - by Caitlin Dewey
Can I claim to be a #tiktokrefugee for free followers?
What about #napster ? #friendster ? #myspace ? #windowsXP ? #dos ?
Ok, I know what you want.... My blockbuster rental history huh? Or the favorite toys I got from #toysrus ? Definitely either my old #tamagotchi or #gameboy....
If you want a retro-themed #Facebook site (similar to #SpaceHey for #MySpace), check out #OffLine!
You don't have to use your real name, unlike real FB!
Here's my profile: https://off---line.com/profile?id=236
Habt ihr auch eine Bekanntschaft, die ihr durch das Internet kennengelernt habt? Eine Person, die immer für euch da war & die immer ein offenes Ohr hatte? Für die, die für andere da sind, aber selbst nicht wissen, wohin mit ihren Problemen ist DIGITALER HELD. #DigitalerHeld ist auf dem #Album #VERPIXELT, das es überall zum Streamen & zum Download gibt. Auch auf #Vinyl und #CD auf meiner #Bandcamp-Seite.
Cory Doctorow on social media lock-in:
“But … there’s no actual fire exits for Bluesky. No Bluesky user has severed all connections with the Bluesky business entity, renounced its terms of service and abandoned their accounts on Bluesky-managed servers without losing their personal connections to the people they left behind.”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes
Learning for the first time tonite about #Friendica - it originally sounded like a misremembering of #Friendster, the 2003 #SocialMedia precursor to #Myspace, which, as an #InternetElder, forms part of my long lived experience online. Having been so happy with my #Mastodon & now my #Bluesky experience, it's cool to see the #Fediverse also has an option for both (AND #Tumblr & #WordPress) to be supported within Friendica. I'm not scared of the install either, so this might be a fun option for me.
@eff @pluralistic the perfect insult: #Fb is a zombie #app like #mySpace
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