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[–] Anticorp 94 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Remember when Newscorp bought MySpace for $580 million dollars and then immediately wiped the user database? What in the actual fuck were they thinking? Talk about not knowing what you bought.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like far right billionaires are bad stewards of social media

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what are you talking about? Truth Social is perfect!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 1 points 8 months ago

In one sense. Name one corporate social media platform that doesn't wish it could be as overtly evil as them.

[–] evidences 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I might be wrong but I think might be misremembering something, Myspace lost all it's user data but not till like 2016 which was years after news corp sold the site.

[–] Anticorp 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They didn't delete the users, but they deleted everyone's blog posts, and i think wall posts and settings too. It has been decades now, but I remember a bunch of content disappearing right after they bought it, which drove more people to check out Facebook. Then later I think they wiped the pictures from people who hadn't been active in awhile. I know at some point all of my pictures disappeared, and that's when I finally completely gave up on the site.