SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005)

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Now I‘m tempted to sign up at BlueSky just for this. :grin:

I’d have to create a new BS account if I wanted to play with this, and it’s not worth it to me.

From the FAQ:

Why did you make it?

I have feelings about The Internet.

Uh oh.

THANKS FOR ASKING. I miss when social media was more about being social and less about media. I miss the personality, the ugliness, the chaos, the feeling of planting a flag in tiny part of the internet and saying ‘this is mine’. MySpace was a club the size of the world where you could meet anyone and sometimes did; Facebook is a wake for a diminishing number of people you once knew. Bluesky is good, Twitter-2011-good, but it’s still about broadcasting to a crowd. I want connections. I want eye contact. I want to feel seen.

[…] I don’t want waste any more time on sites that pitch themselves as social but support and profit from addiction and division. I don’t want to be a line in a marketing database and I don’t want to drown in an algorithm. I just want a dumb and cool place to meet dumb and cool people.

Bewildering to see these sentiments combined with “Bluesky is good.”

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Especially when they also claim that Twitter was good in 2011.

Thing is, I’ve been to Twitter in 2011.

It was a bathroom wall then, too. But back then it was a wall on the worst toilet in Scotland (clip is NSFW if you’ve never seen Trainspotting). Since Apartheid Baby took over Twitter in 2022, it’s now a bathroom wall at the worst Nazi bar in the Weimar Republic.

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Also since, and I hate to be this person, but SpaceHey exists? I’m all for making alternatives, and if someone else wants to spin up another Myspace clone, that’s cool, but tying it to Bluesky really misses the point. Also, it’s completely walled up and you can’t view it without a log in :angry:

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honestly i was most interested at first (not into bluesky, so i wont be using this) because i know spacehey tends to have mostly teenagers and i feel a bit weird using it lol. so i was like oh nice, another myspace clone, maybe this one wont skew as young! yknow?

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