I recently played the video game Hypnospace Outlaw and one of the things that stuck out was there was a set of five “subverses” of sorts about nerd culture, and the parent company that runs Hypnospace wanted to get more of that sweet ad money, so they consolidated them into one space, and put it on a slower server. And when you visited these pages, they were noticeably slower compared to the new “sports” space which they did to chase that sweet new customer retention money, all in the leadup of, well, see for yourself (major spoilers).
What do you want? Do you want the internet to be for academics again? Because we’re past that. The moment you have to put a monetary value to something, it becomes about seeking monetary value either to 1) keep it going or 2) keep it going and make a bit of cream on top. This is how the world works now. I hate it, but i’m not pining for the old days either. The cycle continues from Geocities, to Social Media, to the Fediverse, and probably the Metaverse after that.
Meta/Facebook won’t exist in the future, but the concept of a shared blended mixed reality where the Internet bleeds into real life is already here.
I mean hell - you participate in that crazy hallucinogenic experience any time you hail a ride with Uber, order some food, or take a video for TikTok.
I’m far ahead personally, because I’m in a niche community (furries) and we’ve having full blown sex on the Internet, using something akin to lucid dreaming, connecting our brains together.
‘The metaverse is when Uber’ is exactly why it’s never going to happen. People have stomped all meaning from the concept by making up private definitions and slopping them around at random nonsense. The other day someone tried arguing that a friggin’ minigolf game was “a metaverse.”
If there’s more than one, there’s zero.
I have a 2004 Second Life account. I am thoroughly familiar with the hype, and the weirdly consistent technical influence of furries. But it’s never going to be more than hand-wavy excuses, because the core concept is literally a joke, and all the people pursuing it regardless are actively undermining generalization and interoperability. Zuck is only the biggest and dumbest example. That broken robot is so scared of people fucking that they don’t exist from the waist down.
Hell yeah, this was a great comment. Well said, sir. 😎
I agree these custom definitions are going to ensure that the word/term at the very least dies, and your point on Zuckerberg trying to force it is also valid.
Shout out to a fellow SL user - I joined it in 2008, moved completely onto VRChat nowadays!
I recently played the video game Hypnospace Outlaw and one of the things that stuck out was there was a set of five “subverses” of sorts about nerd culture, and the parent company that runs Hypnospace wanted to get more of that sweet ad money, so they consolidated them into one space, and put it on a slower server. And when you visited these pages, they were noticeably slower compared to the new “sports” space which they did to chase that sweet new customer retention money, all in the leadup of, well, see for yourself (major spoilers).
What do you want? Do you want the internet to be for academics again? Because we’re past that. The moment you have to put a monetary value to something, it becomes about seeking monetary value either to 1) keep it going or 2) keep it going and make a bit of cream on top. This is how the world works now. I hate it, but i’m not pining for the old days either. The cycle continues from Geocities, to Social Media, to the Fediverse, and probably the Metaverse after that.
Nice try Zuck
Thankfully we can say that will never be ruined, because it won’t fucking exist.
Meta/Facebook won’t exist in the future, but the concept of a shared blended mixed reality where the Internet bleeds into real life is already here.
I mean hell - you participate in that crazy hallucinogenic experience any time you hail a ride with Uber, order some food, or take a video for TikTok.
I’m far ahead personally, because I’m in a niche community (furries) and we’ve having full blown sex on the Internet, using something akin to lucid dreaming, connecting our brains together.
So yeah. Sex and money. They’re what’s popular.
‘The metaverse is when Uber’ is exactly why it’s never going to happen. People have stomped all meaning from the concept by making up private definitions and slopping them around at random nonsense. The other day someone tried arguing that a friggin’ minigolf game was “a metaverse.”
If there’s more than one, there’s zero.
I have a 2004 Second Life account. I am thoroughly familiar with the hype, and the weirdly consistent technical influence of furries. But it’s never going to be more than hand-wavy excuses, because the core concept is literally a joke, and all the people pursuing it regardless are actively undermining generalization and interoperability. Zuck is only the biggest and dumbest example. That broken robot is so scared of people fucking that they don’t exist from the waist down.
Hell yeah, this was a great comment. Well said, sir. 😎
I agree these custom definitions are going to ensure that the word/term at the very least dies, and your point on Zuckerberg trying to force it is also valid.
Shout out to a fellow SL user - I joined it in 2008, moved completely onto VRChat nowadays!