• mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    6 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.

  • glowie@infosec.pubEnglish
    32·
    6 days ago

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

  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

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

  • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 days 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.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      6 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.socialBanned from communityEnglish
        5·
        6 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.

  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days 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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days 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.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    6 days 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