Just like the crypto cults that came before, the central and often only argument I hear for why I should be excited or interested in any of this is "get in now and get rich now!" :agony-4horsemen:
Was nobody around for second life or even bother touching it? Because I'm getting major second life vibes. The real money is going to be in the adult sex mods market. Learn blender and make big ol' dongs and tiddies for perverts and make some real cash.
This may well become a worse Second Life, greedier, choking itself off with its own monetization.
Yeah at least SL kind of had a wild west vibe of early internet going on where you could just do your own thing. This shit I imagine is going to be ruthlessly monetized and managed by Zucc.
Weird as it sounds I wonder if if the Zucc will try to pull a Disney and basically :volcel-judge: the entire thing.
Probably. Facebook has weird hang ups about adult content but you're free to dog whistle crypto-fash shit to your heart's content.
That will thrill the NoFap cult and its associates like the Proud Boys.
I suppose like any puritanical culture, it's so sexually repressed that it gets predatory where the public isn't looking while putting on a sanctimonious show.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
A lot of people are talking about second life, but honestly, once "metaverse" is a microtransaction shithole (so, now, as far as I can tell), I feel like minecraft is the thing people will continue to play and ignore metaverse. Probably somebody will open source something.
"Metaverse" does seem to be pumped pretty big right now, just before a dump.
I can hope for that anyway. It'd be worse, much worse, if this particular kind of rent seeking had staying power and persisted.
just before a dump, eh? 😏 How about THIS for a dump 🤣🍑 SWUQECH 💩
There will be a poop NFT very soon, with a variety of stoner faces and accessories, if there isn't one already.
I watched a video on the "decentraland" thing that randomly popped up in my feed on youtube. It really is pretty much just an even griftier second life. I mean all this stuff, even selling virtual land, has been a thing in second life for years now.
I can't imagine they have anywhere near the userbase tho so i can't see this as much more than a weird bubble bc of how much advertizing/publicity for the metaverse shit FB has been doing lately. What's the point of paying through the nose for a digital house if theres no digital proles to shove their noses in it.
I guess they expect decentraland might get popular soon, but unless capital picks one of these and makes it mandatory I can't see how they'll shoehorn in the artificial scarcity to actually make this viable. FB is the only company with the capital and influence to do that. As long as I can just go vibe in a coastal town in VRchat or whatever why would i give a shit how much some dingus is paying for a replica of some house in malibu. Unless of course, this just becomes another money laundering/gambling thing like with all the other recent big tech inventions.
What’s the point of paying through the nose for a digital house if theres no digital proles to shove their noses in it.
This exact scam has been run several times, in the form of digital land, crypto coins, NFTs, art, collectables, weird financial instruments, etc.
I've even seen posts here mocking various incarnations of this scam.
You get a bunch of friends/sock puppets and a worthless asset.
They all sell and auction the asset back and forth to give the appearance of a strong market and increasing market value. Even better if you can get uncritical journalists to write about it.
Then some rube comes along and buys the asset from someone in on the scam. If he ever goes to sell, he'll find it impossible to sell to any of the accounts in on the scam as they only buy from eachother.
uncritical journalists
Oh god where might we find a nearly infinite supply of those? :deeper-sadness:
I get what you mean, but they're savvy enough not to write about drama within an MLM scam, I've never seen articles like "Here's 10 ways people are finding the best Nigerian Prince".
The state enforces land contracts in real life, who enforces them in the metaverse? Is there a metastate?
metastate
:xi-gun: put that thought back away from the lathe and we won't have a problem
Oh cool so we can virtually guillotine them without consequence right?
Help me understand metaverse real estate...is it like a persistent state MMORPG virtual world with artificial scarcity? What imposes limitations to virtual land and property? The in-game currency? Is it even a game? WTF is the metaverse anyway and is it already live?
Imagine an MMO where you can buy a plot of land to put your house on. I think Ultima Online did this a billion years ago, but the more modern reference would be a Minecraft server where people can own chunks.
Now imagine that you can sell your plot of digital land to other people. And for some reason the game company decided to let a third party handle the selling, rather than making it in-house so they can like, take people's plots away if they use them to host porn or whatever.
Now imagine that somebody built the system where you can buy and sell deeds to virtual land, and people are going around selling them to each other, but nobody has actually built the game that these are attached to. But they're all sure somebody will build such a thing eventually. Even though there's no economic incentive (because a third party handles the buying and selling) and the playerbase this would attract are just a bunch of get rich quick schemers and leeches.
Ah, so it's a digital VR sandbox without functioning game mechanics? Is there a defined limit to the amount of digital land available? I don't see how the prices won't come crashing down if the developers just add more land. How were the early flippers able to get access to the digital plots?
Oh no, it's far dumber than what you're imagining. There's no digital VR sandbox at all. Just the promise that something might some day be one.
Any particular metaverse grift will promise that there's a limited amount of land, or items, or whatever the heck. But there's nothing stopping someone else from making one.
