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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Lol the hilarious part is I remember that, at the time, Vine was supposed to be the horrible cancer website everyone hated. Always with the 'omfg wtf downvoted for posting Vine.'

Then like a year after it was gone all you here about it is how great it had been.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People started to romanticise myspace as soon as it was gone

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

It reboot itself as a music-oriented social network, but it's no where near what it was in its heyday

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

If it helps, some of us never used it, didn't get it, and don't miss it

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the "new bad old good" circlejerk internet hipsters love.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The real lesson that’s never learned is you don’t know how good you had it until it’s gone

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I thought the real lesson that's never learned is that everything is just doomed to get worse forever?