SpaceHey

SpaceHey is an English-language online social network operated by the German company tibush GmbH and headquartered in Pfullingen.

[1][2] Founded in 2020 by Anton Röhm, the project serves as a homage to social media platform MySpace during its peak in the mid-2000s.

[5][6] Röhm stated that he never personally used MySpace at its peak, due to the fact that he was too young at the time, but added, "Thanks to older friends and the internet, I heard a lot about it.

[16][15] Spacehey has many of the same basic functions that Myspace had at its peak, such as profile pages, blogs, bulletins, interest groups, and instant messaging.

[20] An aspect of Spacehey that differs it from modern social media, is the ability of users to fully customize the appearance and functionality of their profile pages using HTML and CSS, which was one of MySpace's most notable features.

For this reason, when a user visits someone else's profile page the first time, the website displays a notice to draw attention to these potential risks and refers to Spacehey's privacy policy.

Unlike Myspace, Spacehey allows the user to share posts on other social media platforms.

Upworthy writer Todd Perry wrote: "The site doesn't have any algorithms, news-feed, or like-buttons.

"[39] Spacehey received criticism for its overly simplistic spam protection; in one example, Canadian journalist Clive Thompson wanted to indicate in his profile that he was interested in the work of the American poet Emily Dickinson, but as an instance of the so-called Scunthorpe problem, his entry was blocked by the system because it included the word "dick".