Making a comeback for Tom: Since 2008…

A hedge fund that bought the name to milk nostalgia is coming back

Crazy to think this site single-handedly had cheerleaders learning HTML back in the day

They are going to fuck it up, I guarantee it. AI everywhere and the most dog shit UI. Look at digg as an example.

Making YET ANOTHER comeback!

Pretty sure this one will end as well as the last one.

Fourth time’s the charm!!

Three times! The forth time is the charm! DALAS IS GOING DDDDOOOOWWWWNNNN!

Again?

It sounds like they’re committed to it and learned from the last time.

However, I’m not holding my breath.

Firet sentence in the article

Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.

They have a concept of a plan.

Oh god not again!!! MySpace Tom is about to kidnap people in vans, and shoot innocent people on the street while taking no responsibility in the slightest.

What? That’s what happened last time someone trying to make a comeback said that. Look what happened within a year.

My favorite iteration of MySpace was the first one. No, not the social network with my friend Tom, I mean before that.

The domain was owned by a company that had jumped on the bandwagon of offering online file storage, that thing which is now called cloud storage. Much like OneDrive or Google Drive, etc.

MySpace offered 300MB for free, which was the largest I found at the time. Also the name actually made sense.

Thanks MySpace!! You reminded me that Digg is trying to be a thing again too!!

That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

Well clearly nothing could go wrong with that, right? …right?

I just visited digg.com and got redirected to digg.com/tech. The article titles are

• AI
• Sabine Hossenfelder (the clickbait Eric Weinstein wannabe) and AI
• Sandisk… And AI
• AI
• AI
• AI
• Business podcast about AI
• Bug in app purchased by OpenAI

And the content appears to be AI-generated summaries of Twitter conversations. Phenomenal.

An older version of the website just redirected to digg.com/ai ("AI news, before it trends”, and the archived copy seems to have an ironically oversized Twitter logo).

Poor Digg. If they’d only come around a year or two earlier, they could’ve made bank selling NFTs.

Tom will be so happy to see his old friends!

Tom isn’t there anymore.

Can we talk about how Tom got his gazillions, fucked off, and is leading a great life without being a blowhard self-important cunt? He’s the hero we didn’t know we had.

No. Just… No.

Let’s jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone’s data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

Apparently we’re incapable of learning this lesson.

Yes. 💪😎✌️

This time they play the nostalgia card. People may get hooked by that.

How many animated gifs can you have on your page?

Ya know? Most of the time I don’t get to say this, but I think if the fediverse had a MySpace type service, I think the fediverse version might actually out-perform the official real version of MySpace. Which would probably be the thing that makes some corporate entity try to sue the fediverse.

Now in theory, MySpace can’t sue this Fediverse version of MySpace. For clarity sake, let’s call this fictional version of MySpace “FediSpace”.

So if MySpace tried to sue FediSpace, we all know that the decentralized nature of the fediverse should make that more or less impossible. But how would it hold up in real life? You can make all the laws you want. You can plan your government to run however you want. If the last few years have taught me anything it’s that none of that matters. If the people with money want to win, the courts are not an obstacle. They will make shit up, ignore shit, do whatever they can so the company with the money wins in court.

I just have no idea what that would look like. I don’t rule out the possibility, but I think it would require thousands of lawsuits. And I don’t see MySpace footing the bill for that. So I have no idea how to imagine it.

They wouldn’t sue, they’d just co-opt it. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s MO for a reason, it works.

Perfect, they can now lose all your data a second time.

Nice! That one Weird Al song will be relevant again! Unless it’s exactly like it was, HTML and all, I’m not going back. I still have my old profile in a zip file somewhere on my NAS.

SpaceHey is exactly like old school Myspace

Apparently, everyone starts out as friends with An, the creator. I really hope he’s as wholesome as Tom was, because this project is kickass!

A few more moves like this and “two cans and a string” will finally take off. I’ve been saving cans and string all my life, just for this near future moment. My ship will finally come in and now everyone who is sorry will be sorry! /s

I’m good on social media. Used both Myspace and Facebook. My mental health is so much better not being on them.

Don’t care, man. Facebook made me hate the whole concept of selling my friends and family to a corpo syndicate in order to… communicate with them. I can text, man.

Came back wrong

I’ve heard this every 3 years since I stopped using MySpace.

at first I thought this was a post talking about spacehey which is cool but I don’t think I’d want to use another social media run by a big tech company.

Tom isn’t a part of MySpace anymore. This is the same type of nonnews news as WinAmp is making a comeback.

How many times will MySpace come back??