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 new friends, and the ability to reach people without paying thousands in garbage ads.
I miss dating online without bribing some shitty algorithm. It used to be that I could click "browse," find a cute girl's profile, say hi, and set up a date within a few days. Modern social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group. Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad. Don't trust anyone (except for us, the tech company. Give us all your data for free.)
The internet used to be bohemian, weird, creative, tacky, and friendly. It was my favorite place to be. Where did that joy go? What have we become in the last 8 years?
It’s funny, because when Facebook was new my friends and I flocked to it FOR the uniformity! Little did we know we helped contribute to the downfall of the free and fun internet :/
Υou misspelled "monitized". I tried to play TribalWars. I remember playing this game a decade ago. It was fun. Stil it. There are so many things that could be done with 2 clicks, instead of 10. But, hey, they can be! As long as you buy/spend "premium points". I deleted my account after two weeks playing 30mins per day. To grow further I would either have to spend 1h per day (then 2h, 3h, and so on) or buy the click-reducers. I will go back to my AoE2-AOK)!!
The internet/websites/services have vastly improved. AND the pricing model has too. There are plenty of discussions in HN about "setting the correct price". That sweet spot that will yield YOU (the maker) the most profit. You don't want 1bn customers giving you $1. You want 1k customers that will give you $1.5m instead. This way you got less costs and more revenue. And you got better marketing ("everyone has an android but who can afford a cool $1k rose gold (puke) iphone???)
You want that cute guy/lady? You have to pay! (See Ashley Madison and their business model/practices)(https://gizmodo.com/ashley-madison-code-shows-more-women-and...)
You don't pay? It's ok, someone else will and will get ahead in line, and you then will suffer from FOMO (ok not exactly but you still reduce your opportunities)(gotta make it rain to the company!).
There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.
In contrast the web of the early 2000s was awesome, because you already could do a lot of really weird things (bouncing mouse trailing balls, anyone?) resulting in self-expressing art-like sites - the pinnacle of these kind of sites were undoubtedly the Flash era.
So yes, depends on what one is after. Maybe both are needed.
What is finished... is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods... Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word. Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things...
I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my reddit and Mastodon accounts. But this is tempting. It gives me the feeling I used to get when listening to tunes and surfing last.fm
Maybe this digital cat-calling lead to this:
> Modern social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group. Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad.
People just don't like to be annoyed by random strangers. Especially woman and specificaly when it's about molesting them.
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 person and probably went out with a dozen multiple times, until shutting things when one became my girlfriend.
Facebook was setup to work differently and I never used it for this purpose, instead moving on to OKCupid when I was single again in 2011.
My point here is that if you think the current social media options have "heavy handed" moderation, you're probably the problem, not them.
The argument you’re making is just a different face of the “I have nothing to hide” in the privacy debates.
Imagine if current Twitter was around in Galileo’s time.
* Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed the consensus that the Earth is the center of the Universe, just as God willed it.
Or what if George Washington was relying on social media during the formation of our country?
* Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed that paying taxes to Britain is good and beneficial to the Colonies.
Many good ideas shatter the existing “consensus” dramatically. I’m glad that boundaries can and do get pushed because that’s how we come up with better ideas and systems.
I think I've been modded for:
- trying to get people to hate less on Russians
- on the other hand, in the same forum: trying to tell some over eager people that no, Russians aren't saints and it isn't all NATOs fault.
- pointing out (as an insider that was supposedly one of the victims in a major news story recently) that the "facts" didn't check out at all.
and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his comment provoked yours ..
http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html
or in other words, if you've never had and issues with moderation, you might not ever take risks or challenges with your opinions.
It's not my page, it's not my profile, it's just like everyone else's....
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 :)
Strangely the opposite is true for the linux kernel - seems to run better and better on old hardware every year.
Oh boy:
Naruto> 3 hours ago> Hey Mark, just letting you know my son, Boruto, is looking forward to interning at FB as a graphic designer! He really wants work at Spacehey in the future, so FB is kinda like a stepping stone for him. Thanks!
The tone people are already setting up on here really does feel more like the internet back when I first got online.
Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough, and what each of those sites have in common is the impracticability of precaching every single user's version of the application anyways.
https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
Don’t forgot to have Tom be your default first friend.
[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/myspace-lost-m...
Anyway, I blindly hosted a lot of personal stuff like that from 1998 - 2008, and never cared to do any backups.
But then one day, it was all gone forever - searched through my old email account, and found probably 5 remainder emails that the company was shutting down their services. Pictures, old demo songs, old websites, etc.
And these days - it could all happen again, if google ever bans your account (so go ahead and backup everything)
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-song...
Finally you're totally missing a beat here -- MySpace lived and died by its community of indie bands. Ditch that dodgy mainstream iTunes Music wrapper and make the actual music function work again. You never know, you might strike a nostalgic retro chord within some niche of the indie community (and definitely that's where this thing should be shared!)
Just thinking of a way for you to really stunt with what MySpace could have been that Facebook or Twitter would never do.
Seriously you should make this the "Wikipedia" of social media. No ads ever and people will use it.
By the way, just watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix. The world needs people like you!
I’d sign up if there was an option to throw a few bucks your way and have absolutely guaranteed zero tracking, ads, or sharing/use of my data for anything other than what’s strictly necessary to run the site itself.
Kinda like, Nathan Fielder's "Dumb Starbucks".
Also, is website design even copyrightable?
Just a small CSS tip for your header and footer menus -- instead of using ::before/::after pseudo elements in your anchors themselves, if you place the menu items in a list you can use them there so the vertical pipe isn't part of the links. For example the following HTML:
<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
</ul>
.menu {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
}
.menu li {
display: inline;
}
.menu li:not(:last-child)::after {
color: #000;
content: ' | ';
}
Is it just me or nobody realize that the likes of MySpace started the downfall of the original Internet before it became "social media"?
Nostalgia of a simple web page is fine (and this is a nice implementation no doubt), but why recreate something that leads to something that is predictable?
Instead, recreate usenet with better privacy and mobile adoption. Usenet is what they killed before the promise of the Internet could be realized.
Social networks could ideally be usenet without an eternal September (which is the actual thing that killed it.) You grant trust to your friends, a little less trust to your friends' friends, and a lot less trust to their friends and strangers. Without a real name policy, you can maintain different identities as different pages and can have a different account to be friends with your aunt. With very little cultivation, you can make sure everything you read is stimulating, and very little is annoying. The problem with this model is that the business of the internet is to annoy you, and the first thing you would cut if you had the ability to cut would be the messages that the platform is paid to subject you to.
Are these pages going to index in google? I used to find lots of "friends" by searching site:myspace.com female statename interestname
Gotta bring back the chibi art styles
I don't have that much time atm, but I can't wait to get into the CSS and whatnot <3
A re-run of MySpace, at scale, would be a benefit to the world. I hope this takes off like a rocket (without losing its spirit.)
If I have one feature request, it's a dedicated music (or any kind of event, really) scene thing that lets local people curate events and share them in a central town square, and lets randos find those local events. It could drive a whole lot of people who're not plugged into a scene to find awesome local events without having to go through some other portal, like newspaper event calendars, zines, rando facebook groups, etc. I spent a ridiculous amount of time curating events for punk shows by trawling MySpace pages because there was no other way to do it.
> Someone is currently trying to register hundreds of accounts with fake email addresses per second. I'm trying to prevent that so in the meantime you can't sign up on http://SpaceHey.com - sorry.
Sidenote: boy, do pages load fast, though. No cruft, I love it.
I don't know how that happened, but I suspect the new owner was pulling profit out of it to support their other flailing divisions, rather than let them reinvest to finish their music platform.
They literally had all the pieces on the platform side, and it was without question the platform of choice for pretty much every independent musical artist.
Anyone have the inside story?
I did the vintage pose and everything https://spacehey.com/kristopolous
I just reached out to Tom Anderson of Myspace, let's see if he comes around.
Please consider making the default colors/fonts CSS variables in the :root so that they can be easily overridden for profile page styling.
Curious to see the progression from here on, great job!
This is going to slow down adoption.
Profile: https://spacehey.com/ryno
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And let me know if you wanna talk more on this or even join forces. For folks out there, we are hiring for any position.