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I've been exploring various Fediverse platforms and noticed we have alternatives for many popular social media sites:

  • Friendica (Facebook-like)
  • Pixelfed (Instagram-like)
  • Lemmy (Reddit-like)
  • Mastodon (Twitter-like)
  • etc.

But I'm curious: Is there a Fediverse equivalent to the classic MySpace, or its modern revival, Spacehey?

Spacehey Apple App Store

Spacehey Google Play Store

Spacehey Wikipedia

MySpace

MySpace Wikipedia

I'm talking about a platform that offers:

  • Highly customizable profiles
  • A focus on personal expression through layout and design
  • Music integration
  • The nostalgic feel of early 2000s social networking
  • etc.

Has anyone come across a project like this in the Fediverse? Or do you think there's potential for developing such a platform?

Alternatively, if that's too much work/hassle, has anyone ever considered reaching out to the SpaceHey team about the possibility of them potentially federating their platform? It could be an interesting addition to the Fediverse ecosystem.

There's been some talk about Spacehey Federation.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, experiences, or any leads on this topic.

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[–] Informapirata@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

GoToSocial allows you to have a customized profile page and use custom emojis and such.

[–] 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Best of all so far would be Neocities it offers up to 1gb space of hosting which is enough for old school website. They are also open source and they have their own community. You can literally expend hours surfing around tons of super intersting, amazing looking old web vibe sites. Just give it a try!

[–] caos@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Sharkey is also for microblogging but it also has some extra features, including user sites that can be used as a kind of blog and it "can play module / tracker music files - can play Flash (swf) - (federated) listenbrainz integration, ..."

I haven't tried these functions yet

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MySpace is so old that I don't know what it looks like.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

visiting a profile was like visiting a wordpress blog with a budget of code snippets for little widgets and stuff