Opinions on the comeback of MySpace?

[plasticseaslug]

I've seen a lot of talk about MySpace coming back online, but so far I'm a little skeptical. Right now (at least in the world I live in) we're in a total moment of nostalgia, so a lot of companies have been capitalizing on the subject. For example, Hot Topic has been putting out more products that seems to fit their "old" vibe, on top of other products mimicking current nostalgic trends. My concern with MySpace, then, is that it won't quite be as fun as it was beforehand, or like, it'll be doing something predatory and masking it under the nostalgia vibe.

Maybe I'm just being super pessimistic, though. I hope that it's a sign of what kind of internet consumers actually want being properly listened to. 

[Watanabe_1994]

I think its pretty interesting and a bit weird, seeing how SpaceHay filled that niche gap for a social media with customization CSS profiles and microblogs for the past 5+ years. So I don't think its really needed for a comeback when that's been filled in with something even better (SpaceHay).

note to self: update SpaceHay profile, CSS has been rotted due to 2 years of website change lol.

[Resinous Stump]

I'm on SpaceHey because I like the concept and spirit of the thing, I like the interface, I like everything about it except for the fact that I have a hard time finding people to connect to on there because I am a man who is now approaching 50 years old. I had hoped to maybe find other people on SpaceHey who also were there for the real MySpace and missed it, but it seems to me that nearly all of the people on there are less than half my age, which is great and positive- but it's not appropriate for me to be reaching out to teenagers on the Internet. 

I would love to see MySpace come back with a 2026 version of the things that made MySpace fun, before the site became tough to use. I imagine other people of my generation might also want to try it out- those that have not given up on social media completely by now.

[MediocreMetastasis]

It seem's fishy. Especially since the anti-ai rule they'll be adding.
Vine was coming back with the same anti-ai rule but people found out the company that were reviving vine was an ai company, hence, they were def gonna use videos on the site to train ai.

Millennials are also being salty saying "Gen-z will never understand..." and not wanting them on the platform when we've been the ones keeping the idea of MySpace on life support.

[lakes]

It seem's fishy. Especially since the anti-ai rule they'll be adding.
Vine was coming back with the same anti-ai rule but people found out the company that were reviving vine was an ai company, hence, they were def gonna use videos on the site to train ai.

Millennials are also being salty saying "Gen-z will never understand..." and not wanting them on the platform when we've been the ones keeping the idea of MySpace on life support.

I feel similarly. Plus while I'm glad these alternative social media platforms exist, they're still social media and often fall to a lot of the same problems.

[Rubbereon]

It seem's fishy. Especially since the anti-ai rule they'll be adding.
Vine was coming back with the same anti-ai rule but people found out the company that were reviving vine was an ai company, hence, they were def gonna use videos on the site to train ai.

Millennials are also being salty saying "Gen-z will never understand..." and not wanting them on the platform when we've been the ones keeping the idea of MySpace on life support.

The thing I don't understand is that MySpace was around for a good while and was primarily targeting musicians like singers, rappers, etc, so this reboot if there's any doesn't make sense.

They already found their audience, some healthy skepticism is warranted there.

[azalea]

hm.

so, let's take a look at where the current social media landscape stands:

meta/facebook - personally, i've deactivated my facebook account more than a decade ago. that all said, i've gotten the vibe that no one around my age (i'm a pretty youngish millenial) seems to use it, as most people use ether instagram or tiktok. facebook just isn't "cool" anymore, and is something you have to keep in touch with your extended family that you only see once in a while, i suppose. with meta's declining "popularity", so to speak, thanks to the infamous meta glasses, it's not outside the realm of possibility for myspace to make a comeback here taking some of facebook's users.

twitter/x - bots everywhere, hateful comments can run rampant as they please, not to mention the unpopularity of elon musk. there's a lot to take advantage here from a business perspective. while one could argue that anyone that wanted to leave twitter has already done so for bluesky, there's no harm in introducing more options that aren't overrun with chronic basement dwellers who have never interacted with another human being, ever. between this and facebook, and the fact that honestly, musk doesn't seem all that interested in making twitter in any way remotely profitable (seems like a ton of advertisers already leave, leaving the... questionable at best ones around), it seems easy for myspace to make an entrance.

how myspace makes its comeback, assuming it does, will have a lot to do with its longevity. a lot of other sites that claim to be twitter replacements end up either being fairy obscure (mastodon is one i can think of) or end up having a really limited userbase to the point of being irrelevant. since bluesky at the time was offering more or less a similar experience, just with a different ethos/principles and different people in charge, that's what people flocked to.

myspace can't just appeal to only millenial nostalgia and have that be its bedrock. sure, there are going to be quite a few people that are going to be around to live around their childhood years, but they have to provide a markedly different experience than both facebook and twitter to stick around, and being anti-AI is only part of it, but it is a good part, nonetheless. i also wonder if the myspace experience from the days of yore is going to age well in the modern day.