It's Official: MySpace is Making a Comeback
gamerant.com
Decades after its original launch on the internet, MySpace is reportedly gearing up to make a comeback to the social media sphere.
  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 hours ago

    Don’t care, man. Facebook made me hate the whole concept of selling my friends and family to a corpo syndicate in order to… communicate with them. I can text, man.

  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 hours ago

    I’m good on social media. Used both Myspace and Facebook. My mental health is so much better not being on them.

  • Supercat64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    at first I thought this was a post talking about spacehey which is cool but I don’t think I’d want to use another social media run by a big tech company.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    A few more moves like this and “two cans and a string” will finally take off. I’ve been saving cans and string all my life, just for this near future moment. My ship will finally come in and now everyone who is sorry will be sorry! /s

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    16 hours ago

    Let’s jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone’s data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

    Apparently we’re incapable of learning this lesson.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Ya know? Most of the time I don’t get to say this, but I think if the fediverse had a MySpace type service, I think the fediverse version might actually out-perform the official real version of MySpace. Which would probably be the thing that makes some corporate entity try to sue the fediverse.

    Now in theory, MySpace can’t sue this Fediverse version of MySpace. For clarity sake, let’s call this fictional version of MySpace “FediSpace”.

    So if MySpace tried to sue FediSpace, we all know that the decentralized nature of the fediverse should make that more or less impossible. But how would it hold up in real life? You can make all the laws you want. You can plan your government to run however you want. If the last few years have taught me anything it’s that none of that matters. If the people with money want to win, the courts are not an obstacle. They will make shit up, ignore shit, do whatever they can so the company with the money wins in court.

    I just have no idea what that would look like. I don’t rule out the possibility, but I think it would require thousands of lawsuits. And I don’t see MySpace footing the bill for that. So I have no idea how to imagine it.

  • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    19 hours ago

    They are going to fuck it up, I guarantee it. AI everywhere and the most dog shit UI. Look at digg as an example.

      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Can we talk about how Tom got his gazillions, fucked off, and is leading a great life without being a blowhard self-important cunt? He’s the hero we didn’t know we had.

  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    My favorite iteration of MySpace was the first one. No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean before that.

    The domain was owned by a company that had jumped on the bandwagon of offering online file storage, that thing which is now called cloud storage. Much like OneDrive or Google Drive, etc.

    MySpace offered 300MB for free, which was the largest I found at the time. Also the name actually made sense.

  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Firet sentence in the article

    Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

    No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.