You're not invited to the party; or, How i learned to stop worrying and stay niche

Howdy fellas, i wanna use this one as a chance to talk about some gripes i have with how people tend to use this place. It's always slightly bothered me when i see a profile that grabs my eye, or just has a certain vibe to it that i like, and then i scroll down and see about 100-1000 friends in their list. Are you really going to interact with that many people? I feel it is the users younger than me that didn't grow up with blogging things like this and treat it as a followers number akin to a more modern social platform like Twitter (although anything they've done in the past handful of years is far from it). Its like these people just want to friend you because your profile looks cool or whatever, just leave a comment and that's it, never to interact again. Just really strange behaviour i think.

That's not to say i'm exempt from this either, it may not seem like i'm very active, (what, with the sporadic bulletin and rare blog post...) but infact, i've kept the tab pinned so i'm always online when i open my browser. There's a chance i haven't spoken to you either and i suppose i don't have much to say except when there's a comment (looking at you, Fawkes)

Where am i going with this? I'll be quite honest i don't know either, i hope that people will learn its okay to keep to a small-ish circle, there's not really a need to have over 30k users on your friends list, and even then, the only benefit you'd get is a flooded bulletin board and an audience of yapping deaf people, everyone speaks but no-one listens. Be the hidden gem your page was meant to be.

another small annoyance:

One thing i've seen when it comes to the new users list is the utilization of popular layouts, now there's nothing wrong with using them, infact my one was based off of a layout, and i started from there. But i mean really, how original do you think you are using the goddamn Windows XP layout, come on now. Not even mentioning that you'd have to hear the startup noise and gif overlay every time you wanna see your profile, ~~can we talk about the gif overlays? lets talk about the gif overlays, i've been dying to talk about the gif overlays.~~ It's silly, and not even time accurate either! Vista was the System around the time Myspace was most popular, sure you could argue that more users stayed on XP because Vista was dogshit but that's besides the point

Anyways...

here's my favourite cat image of the year

i was looking at images of traditional japanese patterns (like the one featured on the (chair?) of this image) and just happened to find this, this is my favourite picture, look at that fuckin goober.

Till next time

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Chester McBootyButt

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true as hell but i do this because my whole account gimmick is that i friend random people and comment one schizo rant and all that. If i wanted a real profile to hang out with people, I would probably keep it >30 but this was never for that

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Spiral

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two months too late but honestly this is very very true. though, to be honest, what i first thought would make for a nice low-profile social media just turned out to be like an online diary. i have my own reasons for choosing to make my entries public and visible to everyone, but it's also mostly because i like that i finally learned how to make them a liiittle more personal and customizable and stuff so it feels nice to have something that's mine and nobody else's. idk. also spacehey makes for good digital detox despite it still being digital... it's just way slower and, to me at least, less mentally stimulating than things like tiktok and instagram. yadda yadda. funny site go brrrrr

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yeah it's fine, i think its alright not zoning out on youtube or elsewhere and see 3-5 hours lost, it's nice checking in on this every once in a while and even better when you get that little bell. There's been other sorts of "detox" platforms (like Slowly) that i've tried to get acclimated to but i think this is a nice compromise between places like cohost or even tumblr and the original myspace

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caweyka

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I personally don't really care as much about the layout thing given that I've freestyled my own code before and it wasn't just a mess, but near impossible to sort out once I decided to revamp lol. The thousand friend thing is a bit odd to me as well tbh

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