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> most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general popul
by NoGravitas 4y ago
> most people are boring/normal by definition and the internet is now mainstream. The internet used to be filled with a pretty weird subset of the general population but now that is drowned out by the masses.
That doesn't explain MySpace, though. Extremely mainstream/mass-oriented, but still fun and weird, while it lasted.
- joshmanders 4y agoMySpace really wasn't that weird, they just had a bug that allowed people to express themselves with code and decided to leave it.
- MaxfordAndSons 4y agoExactly; it was novel not weird. And if it had prevailed over FB it would have adopted a slicker, uniform ui by default sooner or later (maybe let old heads keep seeing version 1 like Reddit does).
- projektfu 4y agoEventually it got to the point where comments on people's pages were making them unreadable or crashing the browser. That was too much customizability.