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.

  • sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 hours ago

    I was gonna suggest Mastodon, or maybe Movim? I know there are non-fediverse websites, like Plurk but that might not be what you’re looking for.

  • 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 hours 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!

    • 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I am pretty sure this ia what you’re looking for, only minus is that everything ia code, html css, a little of javascript if you want. But of you dont know any of these codes, it can be the perfect opportunity to learn. Even inside Neocities there are some pages that are documentation resources on how to code.

  • caos@feddit.orgEnglish
    71·
    17 hours 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

    • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

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

    • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
      10·
      18 hours ago

      Imagine a bright pink background with tiled rotating toaster gifs across the whole thing, with a couple panes saying you like Bloc Party over that

    • Maiq@lemy.lol
      4·
      19 hours ago
      
<html>
  <head>Myspace></head>
    <body>
      <tr>"Maiq was here?"
        <td> "this is really hard on mobile and I can't remember if it was foot or footer tag. Its been so long since I wrote HTML"
         </td>
      </tr>
    </body>
  <footer><a href="someLimks.com"></footer>
</html>
      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        I think you need triple backticks for that comment to render properly!

        • Maiq@lemy.lol
          2·
          16 hours ago

          It is triple backticked. Working on my mobile client haven’t checked on the website it works just fine.

          • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            16 hours ago

            Oh interesting, must be a fault with my client. I’ll raise a bug!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    2·
    18 hours ago

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