Jankenpopp has discussed his thoughts on myspace in the Windows93 livestream. He says he didnt expect the toll that moderation would take on him and he would spend up to 6 hours a day just moderating it. Janken says he doesn't really want to talk about it and the drama and all of that stuff but he did say that he may reopen myspace93 but it will be login-only, you will not be able to make new accounts and other things may be restricted to reduce the load of moderation needed for the site. Janken also stated that we may not need them to re-open myspace as with v3 of windows93 we could make our own. What that means or implies is currently unclear.

should i
a: do my calculus homework im way behind in
b: fantasize about moving to norway and procrastinate all my homework for 6 real hours and get 2 problems "done"

errrrmmm i think im gonna do B!
i cannot escape this cycle of anything but homework and it drives me insane

flock cameras are slowly creeping in everywhere and i hate it and i have no privacy and every road is surveilled even if i ride a bike and i thought i was gonna be safe close to where i live but then i come back from visiting relatives and theres a new one on my highway exit and theyre at the mall and on my way to school and theyre everywhere and i cant escape.

a pair of wirecutters and a face covering is a common theme for my purchases around this time of year, but you cant forget about gait analysis!!! oh and make sure your phone is on airplane mode or ideally left at home!!! and you better be using grapheneos or else the spyware is baked into your os and your phone can be compromised remotely by anyone who buys commercial spyware from companies like the NSO group!!!!! burn your face off to hide from the cameras!!!! they wont know who you are if your face isnt recognizable!!! oh and you better not be reading this with browser telemetry on, your interest in opposing the surveillance has been noted!!

i may delete this its really late but i hate flock cameras

(if you're confused about the cameras)

This may not come as a shock to most of you, considering where I'm blogging about this, but I'm not normal in how I use the internet, how I communicate with people, or how I view and interpret things. Because of that it feels tremendously confusing to me how people post on social media (instagram being the focus of this post) and specficially their motivations behind posting.

I'm on instagram only because I have friends on instagram and they want to send me things on there or have me be able to view their posts. Outside of that I basically don't use the app. I don't even have it installed I just have the website pinned to my homescreen to have it run inside a browser because I don't use it enough to justify downloading the app nor do I need facebook tracking me directly to my phone and Instagram's terms of service and privacy policy is terrifying so being able to use it under a browser with an ad blocker and other tracking protections is so much better for me than using the app. I get message notifications through beeper so I don't have to worry about missing messages or anything, but for the most part I ignore all 700 instagram reels that get sent to me daily in a group chat.

When people post on instagram it always just like photos of themselves looking at the camera or something or when they post on their story its just a photo of themselves looking at the camera or just generally existing within the photo and it makes absolutely no sense why they feel the need to do that to me. I'm not mad at them for posting or anything like that I just want to understand why they post like that. Like why do you take photos of yourself just to post them? Nobody cares when they post, nobody really enjoys that form of content of just their friends looking at the camera. People like eachothers posts and follow eachother just cause they're like vaguely aware of them, not even because they're friends with them or because they enjoyed the post. Theres 2 people specifically who I can point to who like every one of eachothers posts no matter how boring they are that I know have never spoke in real life, nor interacted in any way outside of liking eachothers posts. The only reason they even follow eachother is just because they were following people that followed them, not even because they knew them. What is the point of doing that? Why do people feel the need to post random photos of themselves with no actual value to a publicly accessible page, not even a private instagram account? Nobody is interacting with that content for any other reason than that's just what people do on instagram. They just like posts of other people they're aware of because they do the same for them.

My best guess for why people post like this is simply because they're addicted to the reward cycle of self validation coming from posting something and seeing it get likes and interactions because I genuinely cannot think of any other reason they'd be doing this so often. When I've asked my friends who post like that the answers they either say "idk" or say something like "i like being pretty". Which, why do you have to post it then? The only time I even take photos of myself when I feel like I look good are when my hair in particular is good so then I can show my barber the next time I go so then they can use that for reference. I do not feel any form of motivation to look good for a camera and then post that for the whole world to see and I don't get why other people do. Every answer I've gotten other than "idk" just seems like it's about them getting validation from others, but when I say that to them as the reason they're always like "no it's not cause of that, it's just so then other people can see me look good" which is exactly what I was describing with the seeking validation from others thing.

Please can anyone explain why people post like this? I genuinely just do not get it and honestly want to understand.

sorry for the long gaps between posts, no clue what to write about anymore

i got a haircut and showed my barber this photo of me from september hoping they would do me right like they did last time and get my hair how I wanted it, but they didnt :(. THEY CUT SO MUCH OFF, OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! For reference, my hair usually goes down to about my shoulders with layers in the front going down to about my cheekbones (would post a reference photo but my hair isn't a specific style so i don't know what it's called to look up reference photos, and im not gonna dox myself) and my hair is now down to about my mid neck and the front layer is up to my eyebrows. I look like I did back 2 years ago when I had shit ass hair and wasn't a great person, like ugggghhhhhh. AND NOW I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL! BALD! AH!!!! I HATE IT!!!! I showed my new haircut to my friends and they said it wasnt that bad and if i stare in the mirror long enough and cope really hard while also setting my hair just perfectly than i guess its okay but like, i feel so bald. like immediately after the haircut before my hair had fully dried and gone back to normal I ran my fingers through my hair and felt the hair stop so much earlier than I expected it to and I just about had a panic attack (got mildly concerned looking in the barbers chair but i was losing it in my head). When I got home and looked in the mirror and messed with my hair some more I shed a tear dude it was like watching a field of flowers get bombed, my hair was not even that bad before so I barely had any reason to get it cut and i regret it so much.

on the bright side, the way my layers and stuff were cut means that once it grows out i know my hair is going to look BOMB but that also means that for the next 2 weeks (or however long it takes for my hair to go back to more-normal) im gonna be scared of being in public cause i feel so bald. my hair is my #1 favorite physical aspect about myself i take very good care of it and take pride in my hair cause I like my general style and so watching it go from a little below peak of where my hair has ever been to back to evil me is gonna drive me insane. Also luckily for me, when I showed it to my friends over a video call, they said it "isn't even that bad" so maybe im just over reacting and panicking, but i dread going to school im gonna be like paranoid that everyone is staring at my hair and talking about how bad it is.

Moral of the story: If you go bald you can't ever have a bad haircut, so just shave all your hair off and save yourself the troubles.

secret sub-update

currently im obsessed with older silverstein ("When Broken Is Easily Fixed" and "Discovering The Waterfront" are so good I added every song from both of them to my playlist) p!atd (only "A fever you can't sweat out") and I'm also getting into more 3rd wave emo and pop-punk stuff which has been great especially cause I liked a lot of this music when I was way younger and so getting into it now again way more in depth than the little bit I liked as a kid feels like coming full circle to peak (my opinions on what music is my favorite will completely change in about 5 months or so)

also i've been playing a ton of Detroit Become Human recently and its also so peak I love it, it's been sitting in my library for a minute but I've never gotten around to playing it and now I can't stop. I completely avoided all content on it when it initially came out and since because I didn't want to spoil it for myself and I think that's like the greatest decision I've ever made because getting to experience the story for the first time completely blind has been so amazing and I just started my second playthrough and I'm gonna correct what I did wrong and also try to not have markus be as evil as he was the first time around. i may drop a longer blog about this with some spoilers, but I've said that about 10 other topics that I'll never get around to writing about so consider that part of the backlog.

I wrote this to procrastinate doing homework and that was a stupid idea, I have quite a bit of homework due tomorrow.

the bottom of a lake where all my cool sea critter friends are

why no posts when you said you had things you wanted to post about

Honestly, I don't really have a good excuse. The days for the past few weeks or so have just kinda been all blended together, and I'm losing track of time as the days go by, and so I've just been doing nothing for the past bit, even though I've been wanting to do quite a bit of things for some time now. This has kinda lead to me being behind on the things I've been wanting to do and also with my basically never being on myspace46.

so wheres the posts now? why this post?

They're uhh, unwritten? just kinda sitting in my head. I'm not entirely sure when I'll write them but trust me I want to. If anyone has any suggestions for things I should write about just lmk, whether they're about my interests or about just me in general, I need motivation to make blog posts and stuff and be active on myspace46 cause I'm falling out of the cycle of being active. I still wanna write about the lastfm/librefm setup I talked about in my last blog post which is mostly just a short thing on my personal opinions of listening to music. I felt like I should post something because I felt like there was an expectation I should after my last post but I am realizing now that there really wasn't, but whatever.

are you gonna actually ever gonna write the posts you want to write

idk, maybe

so what are you gonna be at what are you gonna be doing

gambling at the slot machines all day 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

in other words ill be around here, ill be on here from time to time

is there anything else you want to do or talk about on here that you need to add another question to ask yourself so you can talk about it?

omg yes thanks for asking!! I wanna start some form of newsletter or weekly (maybe monthly?) news report for everything happening in the myspace46 or myspace clone scene in general. Although I'm worried that not enough will actually happen to be able to write about, I don't want each newsletter to be something like:

"In this week's myspace news!: Aydo slightly tweaked their css to account for the presence of the server message (.svmsg) being present on everyone's page now!! isn't this groundbreaking news!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE NEWS!!!!!!!!! vote upwader for president 2024!!!!"

No offense to aydo or upwader, I just have actually no idea what I'd write about without stretching tiny events into big stories. Maybe more things are happening on other myspace clones but I don't really use them. I do have a chiyo page but idk I prefer myspace so I haven't been active on chiyo basically since I found myspace46.

anything else?

dm for a tutorial on how to dm someone

edit: im planning on expanding my interests section more in depth and stuff but idk when ill do that so expect it in time for 2026

does anyone else feel some sort of like guilt whenever they dont log onto myspace in awhile or havent posted / changed anything on your page in awhile? idk why i get this feeling, my guess is that its prob cause i miss mypspace93 so incredibly much that when I finally found out clones existed (like this one) i wanted to be on them as much as I was on myspace93 and do so much but I think some of the novelty of being back on myspace has been lost for me. I'm only logging on once every few days now usually just to check my profile and see if i have any new comments or messages and then leave. I feel like I should be posting and doing more but I just cant think of anything much to do. I don't just wanna post everything that happens to me irl as i dont wanna accidentally dox myself and/or clog up the news tab with one bajillion posts about whatever small thing i did that I think is cool. I could write about why I like services like LibreFM and lastFM (i would 100% recommend lastfm more if it wasn't owned by viacom and sold your data by default) because I recently just created an account and have completely changed how I listen to and track music, but that's not myspace related enough or just doesnt seem interesting as no one cares to here a guy with a ds profile's opinion on some random thing that does not matter. i think also thats part of why I like i prefer myspace clones over things like mastodon or twitter (i will never call it x you can kill me if you want elon musk but that wont change anything) as I don't feel like there's any point of blasting out every thought I have other than having realllllyyy badly aged posts to look back on in 10 years. but with myspace, I can be active and do stuff on the platform just by customizing my profile or adding cool people and commenting something on their pages. also im happy i never got into twitter as i didnt fall into the rabbithole of twitter degeneracy. does anyone else feel this way about myspace or is this a non-existent issue that i've convinced myself exists.

my bad if this post is rough or confusing, im really tired and i cant really form cohesive thoughts but I hope this all makes sense.

(all of this is free btw you do NOT need any paid plan or anything like that, I've done this all on my free account)

Steps:

1. Create a Cloudflareaccount (duh) (optionally also make a GitHub or GitLab account, you'll see why later)
2. On the left sidebar once you sign in, look for "Workers & Pages" and click on it
3. Click create
4. Click over to the "Pages tab of the creation menu"
   
5. Decide if you want to manually upload the sites files in a zip each time you want to update the site (The "upload assets" button) or have it auto sync with a Git repository (recommended) I will be assuming for the rest of this guide that you chose the git repo option
6. Connect your GitHub or GitLab accounts by pressing the add account button in their respective tabs.
7. Have all your files already in a Git repo and is synced with your respective git provider, there are many tutorials online on how to do this, so I will not going over it in this tutorial. The easiest method is GitHub with the GitHub desktop client if you are not experienced with Git. You can also make the Git repo private if you don't want other people to see the change history
8. Select the repo and click "Begin Setup"
9. You can ignore most of the stuff on this page and just pay attention to the name of the project as it will be the URL associated with it (Ex: myspace-cdn will result in the url myspace-cdn.pages.dev)
10. Hit save and deploy and in a few moments you will have your own CDN hosted on Cloudflare's network that you can use for your myspace-related assets! (25mb per-file size limit)

This is the setup I use for hosting my myspace content like the image in this blog post or the cursor on my page.

If you have any problems getting this setup lmk and I'll try to help

but instead of losing money and i lose nothing and instead of paying to play i just hit the random button and instead of winning money i just see cool profiles