people forget how the older generation - people sentient in the 90s - mostly didn't even know what the internet was, and that those who did and sought to profit from it were rapacious scoundrels. People who made awesome websites and appreciated other ones were always in a tiny subculture minority.
> There was no time in the history of the Web when building your home was celebrated and acknowledged by opinion leaders. The idea that you should invest time in building your corners of cyberspace was mercilessly suppressed by hosting service providers and “fathers” of the Internet.
federated apps never really took off imo, maybe because it matters only for a small fraction of people who's concerned about security or selfhosting or whatsoever else tech people care about nowadays
Nothings scary about it. The techie thing is that most people simply do not care about it. My mum does not care that email is federated but WhatsApp isn't. She just uses them. If anything federation is worse for the average user because it leads to more spam and ossified protocols (does IRC support images yet?).
fair enough, but how can a 'network' be 'social' if there is only one provider. ('Thou shall not have others before me').
Making means of communication a matter of taste of those who don't care won't yield good results. That's what brought us into that surveillance capitalism mess.
In what sense is this a social network? From examples it looks like personal pages made in notion. But no friends list or commenting on other people's content?
Ya, fair enough. I'm still figuring out how I want to do those features. Plan was to hopefully find some people into the idea from here and riff on some ways to implement those :)
Wow! Pretty impressive that the whole thing is based on notion!
MySpace nostalgia is still very very big.
I actually rebuilt the original MySpace last year and called it "SpaceHey" (with blogs, forums, customizable profiles with css, bulletins, etc.) - it has over 550k users already and is still growsing rapidly. Pretty crazy!
Hey An ;p I'm a big fan of what you built with SpaceHey (user #2315). Happy to hear Spacehey has kept growing since I heard about it! I definitely agree the nostalgia is big, and I think just people are into having more customizability.
I was browsing the Notion subreddit and it reminded me so much of Myspace. And then I had the idea to combine the two, so whatever your Notion space looks like, your 'social' page will reflect that.
Will see where it goes, but it was fun little project to build!
Pretty fun hit of nostalgia. I feel like FB/IG/whatever have lost a lot of what made it fun to share things about yourself or personalize your page in a creative way.
Nice! haha thanks for checking it out! I noticed an error in my Duplication template, so I think I was creating too many per user. You are most likely around first 5 users ;p
EDIT: for the younger generation GeoCities was (or seemed like) the place to build your homepage on the WWW on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities .. now they should implement Webrings too! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring) and page counters and in particular online guestbooks!