Would have been much cheaper to partner with VRchat, no?
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You're telling me businesses didn't want to hold meetings in Second Life and consumers didn't want Facebook harvesting data?
I'm shocked, I say. Shocked!
that was just a play so clueless speculators think that facebook is still a growth company, justifying their insane P/E. it don't matter the money "burned" as long the derivatives are booming. they didn't lose shit, this don't touch them in the slightest.
even now, this isn't pushed as defeat, it's used as an opportunity to bolster their new play - ai.
To all those who vehemently shouted me down when I pointed out how utterly stupid an idea this was when they announced it, who were convinced that the amount of money they were throwing at it garaunteed success, I issue a heartfelt: ha. ha.
I don't remember a single person who was enthusiastic about this.
Even Meta devs refused to use it. Hooli chat.
Reddit had plenty of shills. Hell like a month or two ago when they announced another setback there were people here saying it was a good idea but they had given up on it.
So, I do.
Ever thought about that those could be bots??
Also I could also say something like “for those that shot me down for saying the earth isn’t flat, suck it!”. While those people do exist they are an insignificant minority
Bots weren't that fluent yet.
You could certainly say that. It would be weirder if it was the majority of people. See how stupid this argument you're making is?
I'm generally interested in the idea of the metaverse. The idea predates Facebook's interest in it though.
Nice, get rekt, Zucc.
They can't kill the metaverse, it was never theirs.
no they should keep it open zuck is the best that 80b is just normal operating costs
it’ll cost 16,000 jobs
wonder when software devs will get serious about unionizing
this will never happen in the current landscape; it's controlled by libertarian & neoliberal people who detest collectivism in all of its forms.
and toxically so, my psychological well being has improve dramatically ever since leaving the field.
What did you pivot into, if you don't mind my asking?
IT; I did it for 10 years before hand and now I'm back.
I really think it'll depend on how bad the employment situation gets. At some point people are going to start realizing they're not temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, and that their interests aren't aligned with the oligarchs. Software devs have been largely insulated from general economic problems until recently. Getting a job has been relatively easy, the pay was way above what most people make, and that fed individualistic behavior. Now that jobs are becoming scarce, and there's a huge pool of laid off workers, people are starting to get concerned.
At some point people are going to start realizing they’re not temporarily inconvenienced billionaires
Hahaha, so accurate. The psychological poisoning seems so effective on many levels, like those on welfare voting against their own interests as they know they're just one lottery ticket or get rich quick scam away from financial freedom. Or the billionaires that think they're one harebrained scheme away from becoming a god-king.
it's like capitalism just turns the whole of society into one giant casino
I love the couple days a week I don’t have to work with software developers, in my experience they generally have a god complex comparable to surgeons, so good luck to the unemployed software developers starting a union I suppose because any of them that stay employed are just going to grow their ego further until it crumbles on top of them.
those conditions describe the entirety of the united states and, yet, unionization is still abysmally weak.
I guess we'll see, but I do think people will start adapting to their new reality out of necessity.
to be fair: i agree that it will happen eventually, but it'll come at a time after the americans vote out their political duopoly like the mexicans did to their duopoly back in 2018.
We'll see how it goes, the US might just descend into a civil war scenario at this point.
at the rate we're going at, i fully expect a civil war to happen before we stop voting for our duopoly AND unionization to become reality.
Out of the frying pan…