Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by WillPostForFood on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:41PM
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The good thing about MySpace, which was arguably also its weakness to Facebook, was that you weren't forced to use a real name. You could create multiple accounts, multiple identities, let your freak flag fly. Facebook/Instagram are so tied to people's real lives that you don't just have to filter yourself, you basically have to construct a false happy life for public display.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by hbn on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:19AM
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That's the direction the internet has been moving in general, and naïve people are getting on-board with the corporate sales pitch that removing anonymity from the internet enables us to catch pedophiles or nazis or something.
Police state utopia!
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by aprinsen on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:57PM
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MySpace was my first coding experience and I think ultimately tipped me to CS in school.
I remember laying out my page like a pink and black newspaper. All that work for no one to read lol.
But now it is essentially my career
The fact that MySpace was mainstream and allowed for HTML/CSS hacking did exactly what the article said -- it tricked a generation of teenagers into learning how to do that "weird internet stuff."
For the most part, if you want to do anything like that now you're gonna be stuck figuring out domains and hosting and whatnot which isn't nearly as fun as typing some HTML into the platform you and your friends already use. So not as many people are going to do it.