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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by lmpdev on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:48AM (#44623842)
My memory of this was Facebook overtaking MySpace

I remember being 13-years-old and completely baffled people preferred the platform where I had no say over the HTML on my page.

I didn’t understand how people could prefer a boilerplate with profile picture and name over an actual artefact made by the person.

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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by nonvibecoding on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:57AM (#44623904)
I loved Myspace. You could talk directly to bands members (At least the unknown punk bands I was following back then)

Once they lost all the pre-2016 content, I think that was it. Hard to make a comeback after something like this

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-l...

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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by aspenmayer on Sunday July 20, 2025 @07:43AM (#44624230)
It's a long shot, but you might find some resources here:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Myspace

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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by tayo42 on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:06AM (#44632506)
You can still do that on Instagram
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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by RandallBrown on Sunday July 20, 2025 @11:31PM (#44631537)
I guess you didn't have a lot of friends that would make their text white, on a yellow background, with autoplaying music. Then sprinkle in some blinking and/or moving text to make it even harder to read.

I think there could have been a nice middle ground with more "tasteful" customization that would have still left plenty of room for individuality, but nobody built it before Facebook totally took over.

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Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? by aaronbaugher on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:34AM (#44635584)
Yeah, too many MySpace pages would drag your browser to a crawl or outright crash it. Facebook's uncluttered interface was a breath of fresh air at the time.
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