lmao there's a by-line:
"Anyone telling you that there's a metaverse today that has worked is lying through their teeth."
Because VR Chat apparently doesn't exist.
Gaia Online is the reason I used to type "..." in my sentences for a long time.
Habbo Hotel? Club Penguin? Ultima Online bank chat? Dark Souls fight lobbies?
Where did you get that idea? Corporations are definitely hijacking the term, but it's been used since before Facebook and crypto grifters got into it. Like this 2007 article about Second Life.
Again Second Life was called a metaverse years before modern VR existed. That's been the definition of the term for a long while and greedy fucks butting in doesn't change it.
oh I was quibbling over the definition from the start. Yeah whoever said that knows about Second Life and VR Chat, but those aren't what they want the definition to be. They're hijacking the term.
Umm...you can buy things from other people in Second Life and VRchat. Furniture, Avatars, accessories, houses, land (at least in the case of SL land is sold by the company that runs it, not sure if this is a thing at all in VRC) can all be bought and sold user to user. It just doesn't involve shitty NFTs.
Idk what oeer to peer material connection means but vr chat and second life both fit the definition of the metaverse as it was coined and used for forty years before bazinga capitalists "invented" it.
the term metaverse was invented for a 40 year old scifi cyberpunk dystopia novel, so I think it's closer to say corporations are trying to reclaim the word
I think Neil Stephenson coined the term metaverse in Snow Crash back in the 90s.
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Hell is other people, development hell is 30 people.
Meta-worse
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I'm gonna snitch on you for not POSTING THE GODDAMN LINK TO THE SOURCE PER THE COMM RULES
MODS??? UH...HELLO, MODS???
MODS??
MODS?!?!?
don't worry comrade I found it https://futurism.com/the-byte/metaverse-decentraland-report-active-users
That number is somehow both way more and way less than I expected
:fry: Huh
It's embarrassing for a company like Facebook that has the money and resources to make it blow up.
child slaves sent into rare earth mineral mines so rare earth minerals can be sold and manufactured into computer servers and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of servers, literally millions of tons of resources* ... are being used to create and maintain Meta.
This is what it's all for. This is why the third world has been plundered further this year. For this. Fucking shit.
But as soon as :my-hero: brings back those asteroid resources (and totally shares them for real, just like DeBeers shares those diamonds it sits on), that fucking shit will be churned out even faster! :so-true:
Literally living in Blade Runner and I'm disappointed to discover this is actually a dystopia
I think this is all a grift to not pay taxes. Dumping $1.2 billion into "research & development" etc so it's not recorded as a profit. Then write hit pieces like this so people just see it as gross incompetence instead of skirting tax law
wow it literally just looks like a roblox game :agony-mescaline:
Wasn't the whole metaverse pivot done just so everyone would forget that they had another scandal?
I can't remember whether it had to do with them using child slaves, stealing and selling everyone's data for like the sixth time, or if there was a report that showed they basically destroyed society by cultivating and fomenting RW extremism, so I guess the ploy worked
No something much, much more serious
It was the first time they lost users and stock price
But there has to be more than 30 devs, surely? Means even the production staff aren't fuckin' using it on their own time lmao
Most likely? Some Bazinga brains who bought a virtual house instead of a real one trying to convince themselves that they made a sound investment
Everyone here is missing the lede, which is that this is Decentraland, not Zuck's Horizon Worlds. Decentraland is one of those web3 grifts with a crypto market cap of $1.2 bil, and certainly not that much investment.
Horizon Worlds probably has a few hundred active users; all of whose income depends on them using it and telling Zuck it's the greatest thing ever.
a crypto market cap of $1.2 bil, and certainly not that much investment
Does a market cap mean anything meaningful at all if that's the case?
It means someone bought a share or ownership NFT or whatever in it at X maximum price. Since there are Y such shares available, the market cap is X * Y.
Basically it's just the number you get if you turn 100% of the shares into cash.
