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I am not referring to MySpace. It was a local-to-my-country social network which was outcompeted by another local-to-my-country social network, which in turn ga
by Tade0 9mo ago
I am not referring to MySpace. It was a local-to-my-country social network which was outcompeted by another local-to-my-country social network, which in turn gave way to Facebook.
I was aware of the existence of MySpace at the time, but it never had mainstream adoption locally. We also had not one but two mainstream messaging apps and hardly anyone was using MSN.
Come to think of it, Facebook killed a lot of that homegrown tech.
- zppln 9mo agoEarly Facebook was inferior to local social networks in many ways. The real killer feature was convincing people to de-anonymize themselves on the internet.
- kjkjadksj 9mo agoEarly facebook you weren’t really de anonymized like we consider today. For the simple fact that literally everyone you were friends with on that site were people you knew in real life. Yes you were “on the internet” but in this hyperlocal silo of real life connections entirely removed from the greater whole. That is until they opened the site to boomers and then advertisers chasing their money.
- NooneAtAll3 9mo agohow is that a feature?
- q3k 9mo agoMy guess: grono.net :)
- miduil 9mo agoYeah because soup.io (Blogspam Link today) simply lost its data because they didn't migrate and the hard drive crashed.
- Tade0 9mo agoThat's what killed them? I thought it was just financially unsustainable.
- miduil 9mo agoPlatform was dying for years before it was finally financially interoperable, before that they've lost over a year worth of contents due to some corrupted hardware. I can't exactly remember for sure that this happened during a migration, but the corruption of the main database was the main cause to lose that data. In the end, there was just not enough money to justify keeping it alive.
- Tade0 9mo agoYeah... Nasza-klasa of course had its moments, but the flavour of cringe grono enabled was truly unique. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Unless of course you specifically know a guy who knows a guy. Otherwise I think we're safe.