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Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:47:37 +0100

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

I've been tracking Meta every day for 5 years.

They no longer have focus.

They're now going through a second round of lay-offs within a year.

This year, they spent $13B on the Metaverse, and that won't reach mass appeal for another decade.

Gen Z wants nothing to do with them.

I'm not taking them lightly, but I'm sure as hell ready to challenge them.

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Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:13:27 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Chris Trottier @Fediverse News They spent $13B on "inventing the Metaverse."

Only that they didn't invent the Metaverse. Either they believed they did, or they knew they didn't, but they had enough market power to bullshit everyone else into believing they did. For 99% of all people out there, #TheMetaverse refers to #HorizonWorlds.

As a matter of fact, however, the term #Metaverse has been used in conjunction with actually existing #VirtualWorlds at least as early as 2008, 15 years ago. That was the year when #OpenSimulator introduced the #Hypergrid, the first federation between independently-run virtual worlds, known as "grids" in #OpenSim lingo. The Hypergrid enabled you to visit grids with avatars registered on other grids. If anything deserved being called "metaverse," the Hypergrid became that.

Also, starting as early as 2008, single grids started using the term "metaverse" for themselves. In 2022, the oldest and once biggest German grid shut down after 14 years of operation: the #Metropolis Metaversum.

And guess what? OpenSim and the Hypergrid are still around. Not only still around, but growing. There are over 400 public grids and thousands upon thousands of small private grids, over 95% of which are connected to the Hypergrid. And there are still grids older than Zuck's Metaverse dreams which have "Metaverse" in their names such as the Alternate Metaverse which has gone by this name since late 2019.

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:18:20 +0100

Andy Waschick

randywaterhouse@social.stlouist.com

@jupiter_rowland @fediversenews Far too few people recognize that the term Metaverse was not invented by a tech company, but my favorite SF author, Neal Stephenson. https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/3/6/23627351/neal-stephenson-snow-crash-metaverse-goggles-movies-games-tv-podcast-peter-kafka-media-column

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:48:59 +0100

Bluedepth

Bluedepth@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland @fediversenews @atomicpoet Innovation by Xerox. LOL. That's the extent of their creativity and ability. ;)

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 20:51:20 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Andy Waschick @Simon Greenwood :0dd_verified: I know that, and I guess so did the early OpenSim people.

Speaking of early OpenSim people, there actually used to be a somewhat creative avatar named Hiro Protagonist. I'll have to check on which grid that avatar was. But I'm fairly certain Stephenson wasn't behind that avatar.

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:00:52 +0100

Sexypink

Sexypink@social.fbxl.net

@simon_greenwood @jupiter_rowland you are a reincarnation of a bean burrito