#friendster — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #friendster, aggregated by home.social.
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The Register: Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again. “It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/the-register-friendster-rises-from-the-grave-to-make-social-media-great-again/ -
The Register: Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again. “It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/the-register-friendster-rises-from-the-grave-to-make-social-media-great-again/ -
The Register: Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again. “It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/the-register-friendster-rises-from-the-grave-to-make-social-media-great-again/ -
The Register: Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again. “It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/the-register-friendster-rises-from-the-grave-to-make-social-media-great-again/ -
The Register: Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again. “It’s been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead – sort of – with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/04/the-register-friendster-rises-from-the-grave-to-make-social-media-great-again/ -
https://futurezone.at/apps/friendster-ios-app-soziales-netzwerk/403156571
#Friendster kommt wieder und braucht physische Nähe.
Interessante Idee. Ob sie funktioniert? Nun. Gut, wenn Menschen Dinge ausprobieren. Vielleicht trifft es bei einigen gerade jetzt auf ein Bedürfnis, dass Social Media nicht mehr abdeckt.
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‘Not the OG’: Pinoys on Friendster’s comeback
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‘Not the OG’: Pinoys on Friendster’s comeback
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‘Not the OG’: Pinoys on Friendster’s comeback
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‘Not the OG’: Pinoys on Friendster’s comeback
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La Compra de Friendster y su Rel…
Friendster fue uno de los primeros redes sociales en la historia, lanzado en 2002. Aunque su popularidad se desvaneció y el sitio web dejó de operar en 2015, su legado sigue vivo.
https://norvik.tech/news/analisis-friendster-2026
#Technology #Friendster #RedesSociales #DesarrolloWeb #Tecnologia #NorvikTech #DesarrolloSoftware #TechInnovation
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lol. Anyone want a #Friendster account?
Im pleased to say I’m too young for this 😁
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/friendster_rises_from_the_grave/
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Why I 🧡 the web...
"I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It"
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
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Oh, look! Another tech bro "savior" promises to resurrect a digital dinosaur nobody asked for! 🤔💸 After a thrilling #adventure through the #JavaScript maze, the brave knight bought #Friendster for the price of a used car, and we're all on the edge of our seats waiting for this epic #revival. 🚀💀
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d #techbro #digitaldinosaur #epicfail #HackerNews #ngated -
I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
#HackerNews #Friendster #Buyout #TechNews #StartupJourney #SocialMedia
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I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
#HackerNews #Friendster #Buyout #TechNews #StartupJourney #SocialMedia
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I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
#HackerNews #Friendster #Buyout #TechNews #StartupJourney #SocialMedia
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I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
#HackerNews #Friendster #Buyout #TechNews #StartupJourney #SocialMedia
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I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
#HackerNews #Friendster #Buyout #TechNews #StartupJourney #SocialMedia
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Actually, it was #Friendster 😁 Friendster dominated Asia, most especially the Philippines. It's how and when the title "Social Media Capital of the World" was earned by the Philippines. 😆 The crazy thing, so many HTML was allowed it's almost a free-for-all in customizing your profile and comments.
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What do you get if you combine #Myspace & #Bluesky? It's ##SkySpace! https://skyspace.me/?youronly.one Now can someone combine #Friendster & Bluesky next? Or, maybe, #Plurk & Bluesky?
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I know it’s not the same thing, but @Fedicate’s idea of positive “endorsements” has stirred memories of Friendster testimonials
I did not “get” Friendster, but I used the hell of out it
Ha ha, social network, what a joke
But looking back, those Friendster testimonials I got were some of the most sincere, genuine, loving tributes I’ve ever received
Where does that happen now?
Here’s to projects promoting positivity 🥂
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There are, I think, only two ways to get the #Filipino all over the world to use less—if not leave—Facebook and Twitter:
1. We need a @plurkofficial UI and UX; and
2. A #Friendster like UI and UX (original Friendster) …… for the #Fediverse and/or #ATmosphere ( #Bluesky ) networks.
With optional features like:
* Pages
* Videos and Shorts
* Games
* DM/PM
* Neat image galleryI think #Streams #Hubzilla and/or #Friendica fit for those options. We'll just need it to have a UI and UX similar to the original Friendster. A highly customizable profile and allowing HTML use not only in profiles but in comments as well.
For Plurk-like, we just need Plurk itself to federate, seriously. @plurkofficial yuhoo, time to federate!
Once up and running, we can get traditional media and social media writers to report on it, so Filipinos everywhere will be aware.
Then again, the #Philippines media generally ignored and is ignoring the Fediverse, Mastodon, and Bluesky, it's why very few Filipinos are aware of it. And telcos only provide free and/or discounted access to Meta products, Twitter, and Viber.
Though, I think it still is possible even without local telco support.
What do you think? What can get Filipinos to use Facebook and Twitter less, and more Fediverse and/or ATmosphere?
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Anybody want to join a "new" SM site? A guy bought the domain and set up a pretty tight website, though he wants to keep all the "nasty" stuff out of it, like what's posted on FB and Twitter and Redit and all the rest of the SM sites. Also no moderation policies or tools... yet. As of rn there are only a few hundred People on it. The dev has given us 50 invites to hand out.
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La descentralització revoluciona les xarxes socials: Friendster i Nostr donen el control als usuaris sobre el seu contingut! 🚀
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The #bannerADdics are quite the #cult aren't they? Sad.
Biiiiig #GeoCities #Friendster vibes rn, fr 💸💸💸💸💀☠️
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The #bannerADdics are quite the #cult aren't they? Sad.
Biiiiig #GeoCities #Friendster vibes rn, fr 💸💸💸💸💀☠️
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The #bannerADdics are quite the #cult aren't they? Sad.
Biiiiig #GeoCities #Friendster vibes rn, fr 💸💸💸💸💀☠️
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The #bannerADdics are quite the #cult aren't they? Sad.
Biiiiig #GeoCities #Friendster vibes rn, fr 💸💸💸💸💀☠️
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tik tok is not going away
if OG social media site #friendster is still up - for sure tik tok is not going away https://friendster.click/
like every other single social media platform tik tok is prolly gonna go thru some changes
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Wait a fucking minute. #Friendster is coming back??
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For all of my #Filipino fans (fans?!), #Friendster is making a comeback. ^_^
Currently, by invite only, but you can sign up for the waitlist. I wonder if it's powered by the #webstandard #ActivityPub protocol (a.k.a. #Fediverse network). Hmm…
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@BruceMirken @CStamp Sounds like #Friendster, #MySpace, and a bit like Facebook.
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@m_artigiani Personally, it's not that it's being explained poorly, rather, people are too used to siloed / closed-garden #SNS that they find it hard to get their heads around it.
For example, in the #messenger / #InstantMessenger space, we've had #federation since the late 90s, thanks to #XMPP (formerly known as #Jabber). We didn't encounter this issue, people simply understood it like how people understood email.
Then later, there's #Matrix, which is also a federation. But I haven't heard anyone ask or got confused how it works.
In a way, I would say #Trillian, #PsiIM, #Gajim, and the interoperability of #ICQ and #AIM played a role there.
However, when it comes to SNS, majority of people were never exposed to interoperable SNS. Since #Friendster #MySpace #Hi5 came out, there never was a federated SNS until 2008 when the #Fediverse was born (then called #Identiverse).
The #ATproto / #BlueSky federation is coming in 2024, so we'll see if they'll encounter the same challenges in explaining instances. If they do, or do not (as the BlueSky team are saying they won't have that issue), then we'll know better since we'll have a comparison by then.
For me, I think we've done everything that we can to explain it.
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@alex @460c25e682fda7832b52d1f22d3d22b3176d972f60dcdc3212ed8c92ef85065c Let me make copy&paste:
67 #Primal
21 #Snort
16 #Coracle
13 #Iris
8 #Satellite
2 #noStrudel
2 #Plebstr
1 #Agora
1 #Nostribe
1 #Flycat
1 #Friendster
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* #Friendster and #MySpace were my first.
* Then #Facebook.
* Later #Twitter.
* Followed by the #Fediverse through #Identica (software: #Laconica).
* Next was #Plurk, 15 years ago today, and I'm still using it.It's crazy to realise it has been that long already.
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CW: Are #Oligarch run #HyperCard servers with their horrible #ToS fixable?
Are #Oligarch run #HyperCard servers with their horrible #ToS fixable?
Why fix what's been the broken norm for the past 20+ years and just #schaudenfreude watch them implode as they delete #News & #CurrentEvents (which just amplify's their easily routed around #OligarchProblems like #fraud) and finish dying as a platform like #friendster and #myspace instead? 🤔
#VoteWithYourLogins 🗳️👉👂#fediverse is more #diverse 🔥
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I was on #Friendster, then #MySpace, and then #Facebook and all the others I've forgotten (#Orkut?).
I don't remember everyone sitting around navel gazing about which one would "win". We didn't need *everyone* to be in one place. We were all early adopters. We could handle using more than one website. All you normies need to chill out, let people try new things, quit trying to pick the winner. It's not a race.
#socialNetwork #threads #bluesky #nostr #Fediverse #whoCares
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CW: Long thread/5
#20yrsago #LinkedIn: #Friendster without the gonad-centrism https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/07/linkedin-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism/
#20yrsago #FutureOfMusic coalition open letter on media consolidation https://web.archive.org/web/20030504023803/http://www.futureofmusic.org/news/fccmusicianletter.cfm
#20yrsago The Web makes writing better https://web.archive.org/web/20030509221227/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,950915,00.html
#20yrsago A (dangerous) primer on #HardwareHacking https://hackingthexbox.com
#15yrsago House passes bill that will let the #RIAA take away your home for downloading music https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr4279rh/pdf/BILLS-110hr4279rh.pdf
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Yep, #Facebook is the dominant platform, and hub, for all types of information here in the #Philippines, not #Twitter. It's all thanks to #Friendster which was the number 1 #SNS here until its demise, and everyone moved to FB.
Second are #vloggers, particularly those in FB and #YouTube platforms. The chain is, their videos will be shared in various FB groups, FB pages, and FB profiles; then it will be re-shared repeatedly.
We do have a warning system now. The relevant agency started using the mobile Emergency System during the time of D30 (which should've been done far earlier, imo). Though, it's not clear when they push updates. I've received earthquakes, typhoons, and at least once about tsunami (even though the tsunami alert was hundreds of kilometers away from me).
As for, “informed”, I can not say if compared to Americans; but it's true. I myself am surprised everytime I hear a little kid talk about things that concerns adults. Sometimes I'm thinking if kids today are still kids.
Ironically, kids are like that because they are either in front of computers, or using mobile phones with Internet a lot. And yet, Internet connect is expensive and pretty much limited the farther one goes from urbanized areas. -
@volkris All very good points! But, at the end of the day, if reach is their goal, then limiting themselves to a platform that is, to quote Bridgy, “burning”, is contradictory. In the first place, many of them joined because it became popular. But, now, even with the growing popularity of the fediverse, and other platforms, they don't want to.
Think of it this way. Majority of Facebook and Twitter users joined these platforms because knowing that they will have to start from scratch and convince their family and friends to sign-up. They knew they have to sacrifice their existing #Friendster and #Myspace connections. Yet, they did.
Years later, these same people are refusing to create an account in other platforms (not just the fediverse), and the most frequent reason given is “lack of connections”.
Or, an example from the business side, #IE6 in South Korea. The financial infrastructure there was heavily dependent on features only available in IE6. For years, they refused to leave IE6. They cited most, if not all, of the things you pointed out.
Eventually, Microsoft called it quits and killed IE6 for good. Probably got tired of waiting. IIRC, SoKor had to pass a law to force their banks to move away from IE6 and to guarantee there won't be an ‘apocalypse’ once IE6 is gone for good.
I think a combination of both is happening with many of these companies. They've forgotten how they started, and why they have those accounts. They went through explaining and convincing, they went through trying to get their projects signed-up, trained people, and so on. The difference is, today, they don't want to do it because… for those reasons. Are they going to wait until the other platforms turn into ashes?
I do understand your points, very valid, I've been through that myself, chased their signatures, prepared presentations, but at the end of the day, it all comes down to our target market. That target market split into various platforms. Just like ten or so years ago, we followed where they were flocking. We should be ready for any changes in the landscape. If the other platform turn into ashes, we are already set up and running in other platforms. Otherwise, a lot of projections and targets will go into red.
Then again, if someone is already pushing for these things and kept getting refused no matter what explanation they gave, someone is going to enjoy an #IToldYouSo moment. ^_^;; (LOL. I also experienced that moment once.)
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I love that people all have their own #NetHistory sagas, depending on their ages. #mIRC or #MSNMessenger, #Friendster, #Bebo, #HabboHotel or now #Snapchat and #TikTok. When and how we first got online is a rite of passage now.
Sorry, I'm rambling, as ever!
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Incredibly I find myself gearing up to #toot & #learn how to use a new #SocialMediaPlatform. I’ve survived/outgrown: #Alamak, #mIRC, #ICQ, #geocities, #blogspot, #friendster, #facebook, #instagram—are you also #TiredOfTwitter? #ripTwitter
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Incredibly I find myself gearing up to #toot & #learn how to use a new #SocialMediaPlatform. I’ve survived/outgrown: #Alamak, #mIRC, #ICQ, #geocities, #blogspot, #friendster, #facebook, #instagram—are you also #TiredOfTwitter? #ripTwitter
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Incredibly I find myself gearing up to #toot & #learn how to use a new #SocialMediaPlatform. I’ve survived/outgrown: #Alamak, #mIRC, #ICQ, #geocities, #blogspot, #friendster, #facebook, #instagram—are you also #TiredOfTwitter? #ripTwitter
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Incredibly I find myself gearing up to #toot & #learn how to use a new #SocialMediaPlatform. I’ve survived/outgrown: #Alamak, #mIRC, #ICQ, #geocities, #blogspot, #friendster, #facebook, #instagram—are you also #TiredOfTwitter? #ripTwitter
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Incredibly I find myself gearing up to #toot & #learn how to use a new #SocialMediaPlatform. I’ve survived/outgrown: #Alamak, #mIRC, #ICQ, #geocities, #blogspot, #friendster, #facebook, #instagram—are you also #TiredOfTwitter? #ripTwitter
