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Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too (www.theverge.com)

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[–] monad@anarchist.nexus 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Great News!

Nobody should use or support anything Meta. As a matter if principle.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 23 minutes ago

Yeah, but I mean there's "you shouldn't use this because Meta is bad" and then there's "no one wants to use this because it is, on a fundamental level, an incredibly stupid idea and I can't believe anyone thought this would ever catch on."

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The whole concept was dead on arrival. Second Life never took off and it was perplexing to see that Meta thought it could make it work.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I mean - it kind of does work. There are millions of people socializing in online games. Playing World of Warcraft with their friends or people they met there. Building crazy things on a Minecraft server while forming friendships. Playing on that Counterstrike Server for decades with the same people. Forming that guild or that clan in an MMORPG. There is something that does work. Not sure why Zuckerberg wanted VR to be part of that and that Facebook touch of poo is also not helping, but trying to build "World of Warcraft for your aunt" is not the worst idea.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Games have something to do with socialization as an extra benefit.

The meta shit was conceived of as 3d advertising with socialization as an extra benefit.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine