• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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        7 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.