Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s exactly what happens when a Facebook competitor (possibly an ethical one) rolls out. Which is part of the problem.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Dead things can’t, in fact, go anywhere.

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wanted to. I liked Myspace. It has character. Some of it was cringe. But you could at least customize it. Facebook seemed so bland. But I had an ex GF that insisted on it and I didn’t think it was worth breaking up over. I shouldn’t have been such a pushover.

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  • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I stayed on Myspace long past when the majority jumped ship. It eventually lost what made it special when the boy band guy bought it to twist it into something more music focused. But I still preferred it to the sterile, uniformity of Facebook.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You would break up over switching online platforms?

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It sounds ridiculous now with everything that’s happened in social media in the meantime, but I can see that being a thing in 2006 when the vibe of social media was very different to what it’s become now. Back then it was just a tidy little PHP site for you to chat and share photos with friends and family on. Literally nothing appeared in your feed that wasn’t a post from a Friend. It was basically a Whatsapp group with a photo gallery feature.

      Since Facebook didn’t have the baggage it has now, it’s much easier to read refusing to join your girlfriend’s circle of friends and family back then as a wider rejection of her as a person, same as if you refused to join her family Whatsapp group chat.

      I’m not taking her side here, but I wanted to give a bit of perspective for people looking at it through the lens of 2025.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m assuming the GF would break up with OP over it. Which is itself a big red flag.

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      • slampisko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I used to hate the Android vs Apple drama vis à vis romantic partner choice, but then I realized that it’s in itself a great filter of people I don’t want in my life

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nothing like that. It was more like she was insistent and I didn’t feel like it was a hill to die on at the time.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      girls will get upset over FB all the time when it still a huge platform. i once overheard a chick get mad at a guy that blocked her, she looked around as she thought people were listening to her.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember LiveJournal as something good. I wouldn’t use it, but felt a bit like Telegram today, except without Telegram, which is a good thing.

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  • chramies00@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was, until the events of the mid-2010s when most of the science fiction fandom community quit it and went over to Facebook, presumably because that was more convenient (i.e. on it already) than going to e.g. Dreamwidth (a LJ-alike that is still going). It operated in a very similar way to FB but somehow much more focussed maybe because it never got the ‘businesses having pages on there’ bit. Those of my friends who were on both, often used FB more as an events calendar than all-around social media.

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