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.
  • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days 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.

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days 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.

  • glowie@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Crazy to think this site single-handedly had cheerleaders learning HTML back in the day

  • AverageEarthling@feddit.onlineEnglish
    0·
    2 days ago

    Nice! That one Weird Al song will be relevant again! Unless it’s exactly like it was, HTML and all, I’m not going back. I still have my old profile in a zip file somewhere on my NAS.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I just visited digg.com and got redirected to digg.com/tech. The article titles are

        And the content appears to be AI-generated summaries of Twitter conversations. Phenomenal.

        An older version of the website just redirected to digg.com/ai (“AI news, before it trends”, and the archived copy seems to have an ironically oversized Twitter logo).

        Poor Digg. If they’d only come around a year or two earlier, they could’ve made bank selling NFTs.