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The Nation: “The sheer scale of the hype inflation came to light in May. In the same article, Insider revealed that Decentraland, arguably the largest and most relevant Metaverse platform, had only 38 active daily users. The Guardian reported that the <br />monetized content ecosystem in Meta's flagship product Horizon Worlds produced no more than $470 in revenue globally. Thirty-eight active users. Four hundred and seventy dollars. You're not reading those numbers wrong. To say that the Metaverse is dead is <br />an understatement. It was never alive.”

2023-07-03 23:56:02

counternotions via TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️

counternotions@mastodon.social

Why you never heard the words “metaverse” or “VR” at WWDC23.

Metaverse market value predictions
McKinsey: $5 trillion
Citi: $13 trillion

Reality:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/

https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

via @FrankPasquale
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2023-07-04 02:30:21

Ro Laren RED57🥄💩🦨🍈🍊🤡

RoLarenRED57@universeodon.com

@counternotions @FrankPasquale

Even I, a long-ago dabbler in #OpenSim knew Decentraland didn’t have much going on.

They could do some reporting, there are plenty of websites they could have cribbed from.

If the big gaming platforms figure out a way to offer Hypergrid like homegrown hobbyists have done with OpenSim, #DreamGrid #Kitely or the like, we could get into #ReadyPlayerOne mode.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90913837/lego-epic-games-fortnite-unreal-metaverse-not-dead

2023-07-04 07:13:00

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@counternotions [laughs in way over 30,000 monthly users in free, open-source, non-commercial, actually decentralised and federated 3-D virtual worlds that have referred to themselves as metaverses as early as 2010, if not earlier]

2023-07-04 08:06:22

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@RoLarenRED57 @counternotions I guess or I hope that enough people have noticed that #Decentraland simply isn't what it promises to be, instead being more reminiscent of a pyramid-scheme scam.

Not only is the world itself buggy as hell because Decentraland is all about making crypto money, and the 3-D world doesn't even matter, but it also isn't decentralised, and it certainly hasn't invented decentralised 3-D virtual worlds.

#OpenSimulator has done that. In January 2007. And it has invented federation between decentralised virtual worlds in 2008 with the #Hypergrid.

Just to illustrate how decentralised #OpenSim is:

It is free and open-source, it is not owned by a company, and anyone can install their own grid (= world). There's even a special, third-party OpenSim "distribution" named #DreamGrid that makes it easy for people with no experience in running servers to install their own grid on their Windows computer at home. It has been installed way over 3,000 times already.

There are more than 400 active grids currently, possibly many more because stats about DreamGrid aren't easy to get. The Hypergrid lets an avatar registered on one grid travel to almost all the other grids, appearance, settings, inventory and all.

There isn't even an "official" grid. #OSgrid comes closest, and it contributes to the development, but it's still third-party. The devs don't have a grid. The lead dev, Ubit Umarov, only owns a sim attached to OSgrid.

OpenSimWorld, the main sim listing and community hub, is third-party yet again, run by someone who in turn only owns a few sims attached to OSgrid and not a grid of his own.

There are two virtual currencies that aren't limited to one grid each, Gloebit and Podex. Both are third-party again, and AFAIK only Gloebit offers one deposit for all grids. Most grids don't support payment at all. None of them are cryptocurrencies. OpenSim works entirely without a blockchain, without cryptocurrencies and without NFTs.

For comparison, Decentraland is a monolithic, centralised silo. It has only got one "instance" which is owned and operated by the owners of Decentraland itself, the Decentraland Foundation. The only "decentralised" thing about Decentraland is that it has its own cryptocurrency rather than relying on an existing one like Dogecoin.

By the same logic, Twitter is decentralised because it doesn't rely on Facebook or Google. OpenSim is as decentralised as Mastodon would be if mastodon.social and mastodon.online didn't exist.