Even his avatar looks dead.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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For real, they should have either bought or cloned VRChat as a first step, and then looked into expanding from there. That shit is a metaverse that people willing go into primarily because it enables a ton of free expression.
Free expression? That doesn't sound very brand-safe, how will we sell ads alongside that?!
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How can I say goodbye to a place neither I nor anybody I know has ever been
What's dumb is that they have the hardware for it, and 3rd party software can use the inside-out tracking to making your legs work (tho it's still pretty jank compared to a physical tracker attached to your ankle or even a Kinect setup). What the fuck is Meta's problem? Do they only have vibe coders on staff? Surely it's not the jankiness they have problems with; the hand/finger tracking is also janky as fuck.
Facebook once explained that their mobile app is so huge because they encourage everyone to just roll their own thing instead of sharing code, because it's faster to not have to coordinate or something. Well, if you never leverage other people's work ever, you're going to spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, and a lot of those wheels will look more like hexagons.
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The metaverse, in some form, is nearly inevitable IMO. But it'll be a federated-like infrastructure and I'm very glad Facebook will have fuck all to do with it.
It seems that you understand what the term "metaverse" was even supposed to mean; care to enlighten the rest of us?
Not them, but I think I've got a bead on it, assuming you treat it as a general concept and not a trademark:
It's basically the Platonic ideal of a game lobby. Kinda like what Miiverse was supposed to be, or Ready Player One. They were both after my time but I think maybe kinda like Club Penguin or Roblox? Like an overworld with a custom avatar that you can socialize in and sync into other apps or games together.
It does seem basically inevitable, fast forward gaming 10 years and I'd be surprised if something like that wasn't the norm.
Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.
Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.
That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.
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But it'll be a federated-like infrastructure
Unfortunately I don't see any guarantees for this. Unless the incentives that led to the enshittification of the internet disappear, the Metaverse will probably eventually look and function much the same. It really is that predictable.
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This will die, but in one year GTA6 will release. People are already "working" virtual jobs for pennies in unofficial servers for the last game and Rockstar has prepared the ground even more for the next.
Say 'goodbye' already??
I never got to say 'hello' in the first place!!
the creepy Zuckerborg avatar just wants to read peoples minds.
If only I could access Second Life via the Metaverse...
Oh no! Shock! I would rather join MySpace before I purchased a house in the "metaverse".
I miss the Playstation Home game. Wish that was vr.
I don’t understand how a single person besides zuckaguck ever thought this was interesting. I’ve always seen it as the stupidest shit ever, only happening because of zuckamuck’s stolen power and wealth. Zuckahuck’s vision is an absurdity, a freak. It should have never left his head.
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So long and thanks for all the memes. Definitely worth the billions of dollars spent on it.
Oh seriously. In a sane world this shit stain would be fired for incompetence.
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