The era when your profile said something about you

There was a time when you were able to design a spot on the internet and claim it as yours.

You picked the song, designed the layout, discovered and connected with individuals.

Then social media stopped being about connection and started being about content. This gap has been made more obvious by dedicated subreddits and discord servers created specifically to find online friends. It's why millennials think back nostalgically to the simpler times, and why even younger users join spacehey, friendrewind, and napolean to taste what it was like. It's also why many people bring up Myspace frequently years from now because something's not working. Social media driven by profit is heading us in the wrong direction. Recommendation systems are built to keep you scrolling, not to help you belong somewhere.

I'm currently trying to work on a site where your profile is your online space dedicated to you. A place people visit, not just scroll past and where finding your people is the point, not a side effect. Hot take: spacehey, friendrewind, and napoleon are great sites but stuck in the past. The question might not be how can we bring back clones of myspace to relive the memories, but instead how to use MySpace as an inspiration to produce solutions to combat heading towards a bleak path. also can't tell if this post sounds cheesy so lmk rip