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Hi! just going to ramble for a moment.
i was really excited when i found out about this platform. i love the old internet era, i miss when we didnt all have supercomputers in our pockets at all times. i guess its a combination of general worldly fatigue and nostalgia for ‘the old days’. i suppose i was pretty late to the function for this place since i only joined a few weeks ago and im sure it was more active around the time it first launched (considering the circumstances at the time, lol). i wasnt expecting much really, whether i ever end up making any friends on here is up to the universe and the spacehey gods to decide (though id like to). just being able to make a fun profile and learn html has been super fun and beneficial.
i guess the thing i wanted to talk about the most is how strange the energy is on this website. it almost feels like this is the ghost of myspace, if it still stood today. i feel like this is more or less how it would feel if it had continued running up until this point. some users still here, mostly lurking, sticking to their small networks of friends, but the larger part of the site seems to feel like a wasteland. i feel like this is a ridiculously dramatic way to describe a website, lol. i see tons of similar ideals being held in other blog posts and in forums and groups. its so odd. you think, oh ill join a group, that should help! but no one in said group has been active in 3 years. its kind of saddening. again, i wasnt really expecting it to be bustling with activity, but i was hoping for a little more than this. maybe im just not in the know on what specific channels to travel through to find friends or something, or i just havent been here long enough, which im sure is definitely a contributing factor. i just think this strange general vibe is fascinating. i mean, its a revival of a dead website that feels like a dead website.
i dunno, i think its interesting and unfortunate. that being said, if anyone is having these same feelings dm me and lets be friends LOL
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understimmed
I think I agree with you, although I've never used myspace. I personally came from this other much shittier clone called noplace, and I joined this because I expected a similar environment. Noplace was mainly mobile which is such a large difference, and while this space is much more faithful to actual myspace, it just feels so much more dead, and I think its mainly cause of how understated the blog feature is. The blog feature honestly feels like an afterthought with how very monotonous it looks and unaccessible it is from the home page. It leads to no one actually like talking, since the primary focus is building this "aesthetic" of the myspace user. It's gonna be a very hot take of mine but i feel like it pervades into the whole scene/emo aesthetic. It's less personal taste and more fitting and idolizing a past aesthetic, which I say because there's little remixing being done with the aesthetics that they just can't be fully genuine. Blogs should be made much more integral to the homepage to encourage discussion and meeting people in my opinion.
completely completely agree with you
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