And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!
I will not make the Fediverse suffer the music I made in college like I did MySpace.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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How hard is out to just not buy things? Marketing doesn't work if you don't spend any money.
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But also less people didn't used pseudonymous names. Like, are you crazy now? MaryKay@gmail.com and your actual name is Mary Kay, that's just asking for it. They should do their thing and use cool names like BDSMenthusiast2012@proton.com.
MaryKay is a BDSM enthusiast? Mary Kay sounds fun!
I don't know, I don't know her personally, I don't know if she likes the things she does in my imagined persona.
Facebook got popular when I was still a freshman in high school, probably earlier, because I was a stubborn late adopter. I think my first Facebook update was trying to convince people to go back to Myspace. 🥲 Even back then I thought it was sterile and boring.
Part of me wonders how many people liked how Facebook catered to the "lowest common denominator" and didn't allow for much else. I think of how Myspace allowed people to customize their profiles extensively with HTML. A common joke is how either Neopets or Myspace taught millennials the basics of web development through allowing custom HTML. I'm curious how many people on Myspace couldn't figure HTML out and were envious of those who understood it/could make their profiles "look cool." And viola! Here is Facebook! A social media platform where no one can make fancy customizations.
I know there's plenty of other reasons Facebook succeeded, like "the feed", which made it easy for people to stay up to date on everything going on with their friend group, which of course made it an excellent vector for the enshittification and propaganda generation observed later on.
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I always thought that kind of social media was a recipe for bad times. Alas, most people don't care or think much, so here we are.
MySpace sucked. Thats my hot take. I lived through it, I know how much it sucked. Hence why we all abandoned it ASAP. You know its all true.
I remember mySpace and it kinda sucked. That's not to say things are better today, but it did suck.
Narrator: It did not in fact suck.