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[โ€“] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meta the same company that changed it's name from "Facebook" to the name of its now failed venture the "meta verse".

The company that spent BILLIONS trying to get people give up reality for "VR chat but make it Microsoft teams".

Your confused they are making a bad purchase based on hype? Why?

[โ€“] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

I'm starting to think they named it more after the metadata of it's users of which they use to make money.