{"id":422560,"date":"2021-11-12T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T08:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=422560"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T08:42:07","slug":"myspace-clone-blows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/422560-myspace-clone-blows-up.html","title":{"rendered":"MySpace clone blows up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a new social website that resurrects the look and feel of MySpace from the early 2000s in all its primordial glory.<\/p>\n

Created by a young German coder identifying himself as An the Maker, SpaceHey<\/strong><\/a> is a faithful recreation of the spartan social experience in the early years of online media, triggering nostalgia in some users and curiosity in others.<\/p>\n

MySpace was the most popular social service on the web before Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s Facebook surged ahead.<\/p>\n

In the years since its heyday, Instagram, now also under the Meta umbrella, defined new ways of interacting around images and visuals, Snap Inc.\u2019s Snapchat made ephemeral video clips a sensation and Twitter Inc. turned the retweet into a weapon of mass distraction.<\/p>\n

The comparatively barebones SpaceHey has been in development for a year and crossed the 200,000-user mark on Thursday. Its servers buckled under the onslaught of new users as discussion around it picked up across other social media channels.<\/p>\n

Part of the attraction may be explained by the absence of intrusive advertising and big corporate overseers. SpaceHey promises \u201cno algorithms, no tracking, and no personalized Ads – Feeds on SpaceHey are chronological and there is no suggested content begging for your attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the site itself is simple in appearance, users are allowed to customize their profile pages to a high degree, with options including animated backgrounds and custom mouse pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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