• TwilitSky@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    Remember when everyone made fun of Second Life? Now the people who made it don’t need to feel embarrassed anymore because at least they weren’t involved in Metaverse. If you were involved with both, there’s no salvation left.

  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    2 days ago

    I think it’s hilarious that the entire press and Meta are both like “ope, people don’t want to hang out in VR”.

    furries continue to hang out in VR chat

  • SavageCoconut@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    It doesn’t matter now. All those idiots who wrote books about how good the mataverse was, how it was going to change our lives, how we will be able to talk to costumer support in a virtual office from our house… all those people who wrote about it did the leap to talk about AI and now are writing about how good AI is… goshhhh

  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    3 days ago

    They could have cured homelessness 4x over. But instead we got crappy little Zuck-like avatars and an ecosystem nobody ever asked for or wanted.

    Fuck this world man.

  • Patrikvo@lemmy.zip
    6·
    2 days ago

    The Metaverse cycle:

    10 Some article remind me it exist;

    20 I shrug and continue not to care about the Metaverse;

    30 I forget about the existance of the Metaverse;

    40 Some amount of time passes;

    50 GOTO 10.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    811·
    3 days ago

    motherfuckers could probably have ended hunger in their country for that kind of money.

    that’s how much of a piece of shit this pedophile nazi is.

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
    971·
    4 days ago

    Hilarious that this company is now named after a failed product. It would be like if Ford changed it’s name to Pinto.

  • NewOldGuard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    90·
    4 days ago

    Can’t believe they really rebranded around this shit when we all knew it was a nonsense non-concept five years ago, lmao

    • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
      7·
      3 days ago

      well we need to remember they changed their name to meta after zucc went to the senate due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal

  • astraeus@lemmy.ml
    31·
    3 days ago

    Not only was the entire project thing a completely repulsive, uncanny mess, but also they could’ve just bought roblox for half that amount which is effectively the closest thing to a “metaverse” but ig zuck ego wouldn’t allow that

    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Not only that, their company is worth over $500B more than it was when they rebranded as Meta. They were valued around $1T at the time and around $1.5T today. So they have completely failed to accomplish anything of value or substance, anything that improves life for anybody, or anything at all related to their entire metaverse concept in that time, and yet the market has deemed that they should continue to skyrocket in value.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Which is why they do it. Stock markets don’t like idle money. For all they wasted here they made it back anyway. They’ll do it again with some other bullshit too.

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
      30·
      4 days ago

      Gotta pad that balance sheet with losses. Can’t be paying taxes if you can write off speculative ventures that just might pay off fund other misadventures.

  • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
    161·
    3 days ago

    remember 6 years ago when everyone was saying ‘learn to code’?

    now what?