this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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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 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I love these little eyeball people

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] scott@loves.tech 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will say two things,

  1. The UI is not bad, has a rustic feel to it
  2. No offense but your taste in music is kinda basic
[–] scott@loves.tech 1 points 1 month ago

@astro_ray It's not my profile. I just picked one at random. :)

[–] caos@feddit.org 9 points 1 month 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

[–] 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there's bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There's a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn't suprise me if there's something out there.

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

also funkwhale, but again that's closer to a streaming service

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I was working on a Friendica theme conversion a while back, with the goal of making the theme elements compatible with old-school Myspace layout generators. Unfortunately, Friendica doesn't support a user wall anymore, so I'd maybe have to rewrite the whole thing for Hubzilla?

[–] sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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.