I had a very dumb idea so I created a new social media site and registered 29 million accounts, including yours. skyspace.me - ThreadSky

stecurran.bsky.social • 30 days ago

I had a very dumb idea so I created a new social media site and registered 29 million accounts, including yours.

https://skyspace.me

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supermcguffin64.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's working on my profile.
https://skyspace.me/?supermcguffin64.bsky.social

andrewwallingford.bsky.social•29 days ago

While zooming in I Accidentally tapped “Rank user” and the response is hilarious 😂😂😂

stecurran.bsky.social•29 days ago

"Accidentally" 👀

megslulu.bsky.social•30 days ago

This makes my Gen X soul happy 🖤

zman12.bsky.social•30 days ago

immanentnow.bsky.social•30 days ago

i click on this and it just shows your account

patrickchapman.bsky.social•30 days ago

That's brilliant.

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thank you!

patrickchapman.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's really making me pine for the older social media days.

Were you ever on Friendster? Can you imagine a social media website these days encouraging you to leave flattering testimonials at the bottom of your friends' profile?

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Oh man, I (vaguely) remember friendster, yeah. Wasn't that partly about recommending friends to people as well? Good times. I'd love to make something that's about MAKING friends rather than just hanging out with the people you already know somewhere else.

patrickchapman.bsky.social•30 days ago

I completely forgot about that feature. It was the most posi site.

It was the best place to give yourself a good-time feeling reading genuinely nice things about yourself and your friends.

not-hud.bsky.social•30 days ago

@berta.bsky.social

thebase16.bsky.social•30 days ago

wait this is so cute!!!

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thank you!

gullagher.bsky.social•30 days ago

📌

woodenman.bsky.social•30 days ago

its now real millenial hours and I love it

lmo.one•29 days ago

The nostalgia is strong with this one. Thanks for sharing this fun project!

stecurran.bsky.social•29 days ago

Thanks for looking at it!

terrycavanaghgames.com•30 days ago

this is very good! Let's add a song to my profile: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Oe49j06Bjrxs8PltuVeaW?si=xi1TCvo-QESYRAn9DsvtDA

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thanks! I thiiiiink you have to use the #skyspace tag for it to register though. I will make all this a little clearer by Monday...

terrycavanaghgames.com•30 days ago

It seemed to work!

terrycavanaghgames.com•30 days ago

#skyspace BG: https://imgur.com/a/RpiBzwf

sarronco.bsky.social•30 days ago

hahah, great

kunaljoshi.bsky.social•29 days ago

Thank you for making this relevant again

tumbleweed07.bsky.social•29 days ago

Nifty👍

kris1957.bsky.social•30 days ago

Wish in one hand. Crap in the other. Your fulfillment.

schuldberg.com•30 days ago

This rules, the only problem is that it takes you out of skyspace if you use the search bar to find someone else's profile, it should redirect you to the skyspace version of the profile instead of the vanilla one.

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Totally agree! I will see if that is possible (and if I can do it if it is)

schuldberg.com•30 days ago

Hell yeah, thank you for your service.🫡

thielith.bsky.social•30 days ago

📌

andrewsawyou.bsky.social•30 days ago

Look forward to somebody making a social media site called Xbook or something.

dantastic.bsky.social•30 days ago

I love this. So there's this blogging app for bluesky. I wonder if you could use that to replicate MySpace's blog.
https://whtwnd.com/

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

I'll look at it. May be beyond me but thanks for the suggestion!

dantastic.bsky.social•30 days ago

It's pretty awesome the way it is.

gordmcleod.ca•30 days ago

This is very cool! Any chance for dark mode some time, maybe?

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thanks! Not impossible!

elmadkiller57.bsky.social•30 days ago

📌

aheradin.com•26 days ago

Clicking here adds an extra .bluesky.social at the end of the url

stecurran.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ah, thank you, I'll take a look at that!

dammitlucas.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is great!

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

It is just a wrapper for Bluesky of course. But while I started making it as a joke I've found that exploring the site through it is... kind of nice? Myspace was focussed on your relationships rather than your posts and the Top8 / mutuals section makes each page feel more social than media.

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

What else. You can edit your background / Music / and the "Who I'd Like To Meet" section (see the ? or look at @skyspace.me for examples), and (crucially!!) place whoever you want in your Top 8. I'll add "Interests" over the weekend, I think...

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

And yeah, it's a little bit broken in places, including some I won't have discovered yet (so let's call this a public beta). I'll post more about it on Monday, but feel free to explore / share / suggest fixes etc. Thank you!

davidcsloane.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is wild. Thanks for making it.

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Thank you for appreciating it!

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

(A clarification because a few people have asked - there's no data scraping here and I haven't really registered anything; it just reframes the content on your account in an interesting, 2005-ish way, using Bsky's excellent public API.)

reverendcrush.com•30 days ago

This is cool, does it not work with bluesky accounts with custom domain usernames?

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Definitely does (unless you've found an edge case): https://skyspace.me/?blockwords.app

pileofgarbage.net•30 days ago

Very slick, good stuff!

pileofgarbage.net•30 days ago

Will be back when you have a GitHub up, issue raising like a mfer maybe some fixes, I can see some low-hanging things, same things I saw getting @leperscolony.pileofgarbage.net running.

tinypoison.bsky.social•30 days ago

absolutely worth the follow for the nostalgia-induced dopamine rush
thanks, bud ✌🏾

varmaz.is•30 days ago

Absolutely love this. Nostalgia BOMB!

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

It is somehow comforting, isn't it??

dearsplenda.bsky.social•30 days ago

what does “you registered my account” mean

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Nothing really! The site just takes your bsky profile and wraps it in Myspace era presentation.

totter87.bsky.social•30 days ago

Im sorry if I’m doing something wrong with this, but how do I find my page on here? (Thanks for making this - it’s super exciting!)

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

Here it is! https://skyspace.me/?totter87.bsky.social

totter87.bsky.social•30 days ago

Omg thank you so much!

thecodetroll.bsky.social•30 days ago

this is perfection

handlebarorionx.bsky.social•29 days ago

I wish BlueSky itself had more 2000's social media features so that it would be more than a Twitter-like. Like widget based profile customization ala Gaia circa 2007 and sections to put up all your likes and dislikes besides your bio like MySpace. And backgrounds

manchildalorian.bsky.social•30 days ago

Funny you should mention that because: https://spacehey.com/home

sugaronastick.bsky.social•29 days ago

📌

heldwithlove.bsky.social•29 days ago

Is this for real? I want to leave meta and all the other suggestions for other apps have been a let down, except bluesky

stecurran.bsky.social•29 days ago

It is sort of real? It's not much more than a skin for BSky at this point, though...

homebrewandhacking.bsky.social•30 days ago

Just so you know, my initial assumption was that you'd been involved in a datascraping exercise and I was just looking for my matches when I scrolled down and saw what you had done.

Which sounds quite cute 😍 but isn't how this came across at all.

stecurran.bsky.social•30 days ago

No datascraping (as I said in my second post it's just a wrapper!) but I will add another post to further clarify that! Thanks!