Mashable: Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plans. “Chris and Tim Vanderhook, whose company acquired Myspace in 2011, say they plan to relaunch the once-dominant social media platform. The brothers confirmed their intentions in Tommy Avallone’s recent documentary Myspace, although they have not announced when the relaunch will happen or what it will look like.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/03/mashable-is-myspace-coming-back-owners-confirm-relaunch-plans/#vintagesocialmedia — Public Fediverse posts
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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.”
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Mashable: Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit: How to try the Digg beta. “Now, Digg’s original founder Kevin Rose is teaming up with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to relaunch the platform. Digg is back (again) and looking to take on Reddit with the help of the guy who founded Reddit. (Ohanian left Reddit in 2020.)”
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TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive. “On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored from an older backup that was created before Vine’s shutdown.”
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Lifehacker: This Site Gives Your Bluesky Profile a MySpace Makeover. “Do you remember a time when the internet was a more chaotically personal place? When the experience of using social media wasn’t so uniform? SkySpace seeks to recapture those days. The site transforms your Bluesky profile into a Myspace-esque page, complete with backgrounds, music, and a section for your top eight friends.”