this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ideal metaverse should be federated, speaking generically and not about fuckerberg’s bastardization of the idea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was such a vile move to claim the name meta. Before that, both "meta" and "metaverse" had a very different meaning and it has drastically changed since then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

actually so fucking true, I've seen so many YouTube videos when the metaverse was announced that they were going to do stuff in the metaverse but it was just vr chat, so people got high expectations and stuff

[–] Izzy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It should also not involve businesses or work at all. I don't want to be in a bad excuse for a VR video game during a business call.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And you can tell it’s not the same tech hype cycle because the big players can’t profit off it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mmmmh feta...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Metaverse? More like iAmAverse, amirite??? 😏

[–] slyme 1 points 1 year ago

The worst part: Facebook's trying to capitalize off both