RE: Everything will eventually go the way of MySpace unless you maintain it properly!
I wish there was a SteemSpace or MySteem where people got more control over their Steem page. You can't even choose your home page's color really. There's at least a dark mode now though. Steemit's source code is available on Github under the name Condenser, and Busy's source is too. Someone could fork Condenser and give people a LOT more control over what they can do with their site.
I think people just want a simple product that is easy to use.
That's probably true for many...but it doesn't explain why so many left. They also could have made it a lot simpler to customize, with a WYSIWYG editor, or something like that. But they didn't change much of anything. I and others kept going back to our MySpaces for a long time occasionally...and it was still all the same. If they had tried harder to improve things, I think they wouldn't have lost so many.
Yes. Steem Space would be great with WYSIWYG. You know Facebook has been the same the past 15 years, basically. That is not really what matters. People felt like nobody was on MySpace and that everybody was on Facebook. That was the perception.
Why did people leave Yahoo for Google? Facebook probably was government funded, like Google. MySpace was not. Facebook was pushed out on people unlike MySpace. They promoted Facebook much harder than MySpace. They went after the college students first to get them on Facebook. And Facebook had a cleaner look. Facebook was made school friendly as MySpace looked less kid friendly. MySpace appeared as just a place for music. Facebook started becoming the place for friends, for school, for business, even tho MySpace is that too. Facebook is a copy of MySpace and yet people were given fake news about MySpace and Facebook that led them away from MySpace.
The biggest thing that happened was that people were too busy on Facebook to get back on MySpace. Facebook became an addiction for people and they ran out of time to hop on MySpace. So, people began forgetting about MySpace as well. For the most part, people simply ran out of time and stuck with Facebook, generally speaking. Most people didn't think about it. I didn't really think about it either until later on. I think a lot more than most people and most people were just hooked on Facebook from earlier on and it spread. Early on, only college students could join Facebook. It was a best kept secret. You had to have a school email address or else. Then they opened it to everybody. So, that made more people want it as they couldn't at first.