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Re: Meta

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Post by kerng »

nemothekid wrote: post #28

Personally, I'm less bullish on FB/Meta now. Half of me believes if someone can turn it around it would be Zuck, and the other half believes that FB's culture has optimized the wrong the thing for the past 5 years. Consider this, and call me out if I'm wrong, for the past 5 years we were led to believe by FB/YouTube that algorithmically generated could only have negative consequences as it moved people to more and mo…

I think Snap or TikTok should rebrand to Antimeta, or at least build a subsidiary with that name to show how ridiculous this is. Facebook, or however the want to call themselves, is still the same company with its unethical leadership.

Unless leadership changes, nothing good will be in store for society at large.

Re: Meta

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Post by Duralias »

judge2020 wrote: post #48
lvl100 wrote: post #46

I don’t get the hype around metaverse. It’s between Zuck and Jensen. Sure those two guys can push a lot of eyes and start something but the products simply do not exist. It’s as if they’re living in this fantasy world to create…Habbo Hotel for 2025.

The metaverse they have a vision for won't exist, but social VR is on the rise, even if it won't take over everyday life. VRChat consistently has 25k players these days and that's not including the amount of people playing it on Quest devices.

The official VRChat Discord bot reports the true player numbers and while it isn't very high now "27997", on weekends I have seen it reach near 50k.

There are as many people playing it on Quest as there are on Steam, which is wild considering just how many more Quest owners without a gaming PC there must be.

Re: Meta

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Post by orhmeh09 »

whimsicalism wrote: post #107
apozem wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of this piece pointed out on his podcast that Zuckerberg, despite his baggage, is a founder and thus the only person who can sell such a huge change to employees and investors. If building a metaverse is a good idea, and that is a large if, then it will have been good for him to stay.

Founder loyalty is much larger among employees than it is among investors (in general, don't know about FB).

OK. How do you know this?

Re: Meta

#134

Post by heavyset_go »

thebean11 wrote: post #21
r00fus wrote: post #19

FTA: > “Meta”, on the other hand, is explicit: CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is now a metaverse company I'm not sure anyone (other than some geeks) really understands what the "metaverse" is... or cares. The name/symbolism/demo were uninspiring and vague at best. Not to mention Mark isn't the best salesman for this. It seems so egotistical of him to assume HE needed to be the front-man for this effort other…

The demo is for geeks and investors, so I’m not sure it matters.

Facebook is pummeling advertising platforms with ads that link to the demo.

Re: Meta

#135

Post by unstatusthequo »

nemothekid wrote: post #28

Personally, I'm less bullish on FB/Meta now. Half of me believes if someone can turn it around it would be Zuck, and the other half believes that FB's culture has optimized the wrong the thing for the past 5 years. Consider this, and call me out if I'm wrong, for the past 5 years we were led to believe by FB/YouTube that algorithmically generated could only have negative consequences as it moved people to more and mo…

My opinion is a name change is just that. You can also put a Ferrari body kit for a Pinto, but it’s still a pinto. Name change is just them trying to dodge their own brand’s untrustworthiness.

Re: Meta

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Post by kerng »

This blog post seems to get some fundamentals wrong.

Alphabet is just a holding (that's also why the name is rather boring), Google didnt wanna damage it's on brand by rebranding everything. There is no need, its positive and people like it.

Facebook tries to distract from its negative press to give the company an entire Facelift.

Many people are already updating that they work at Meta and not Facebook anymore on LinkedIn - quite interesting to observe.

Most Googlers or people working at one of the Alphabet companies would proudly state they work at Google to this day.

Re: Meta

#137

Post by jamesjyu »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #90

This is an investor's view and the subtext seems to be "We're making a lot of money out of this, and I expect we'll make a lot more." The problem is that it's only an investor's view. It's quite dismissive of Facebook's very real political problems, and doesn't acknowledge that for many people - especially, but not exclusively younger users - Facebook is a terminal combination of boring, evil, and cringe. But more th…

The other subtext is that Zuck was always frustrated that he didn't have control of the underlying mobile platforms (ios/android) which strangled a bunch of FB's strategy for over a decade.

He's not going to let that happen again.

Re: Meta

#138

Post by [deleted] »

tubby12345 wrote: post #127
polytronic wrote: post #114

Meta is copying our work and our logo. I was the chief developer of MySoci.Net, featuring my own 3d graphics engine NthDimension ( https://github.com/StylianosPolychroniadis/NthDimension ) for its first version before moving on to Unity. You can check out MySoci.net at https://www.microsoft.com/el-gr/p/mysoci/9pbwts6pnb9r

I am 100-.9^100 percent sure you are just using this as an opportunity to shill for your thing but the Meta logo is just an undulating circle, while yours is a Mobius strip (meta is only the Mobius in profile)

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Re: Meta

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Post by sharkjacobs »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #90

This is an investor's view and the subtext seems to be "We're making a lot of money out of this, and I expect we'll make a lot more." The problem is that it's only an investor's view. It's quite dismissive of Facebook's very real political problems, and doesn't acknowledge that for many people - especially, but not exclusively younger users - Facebook is a terminal combination of boring, evil, and cringe. But more th…

> MANGA

This was a funny bit when i saw it on twitter yesterday, but if we're actually going to update our top 5 tech companies acronym let's do it comprehensively.

Google has been Alphabet for a while, so MANGA should be MANAA. And I haven't understood why Netflix is in there for a while now, I think we should swap it for Microsoft.

What do we think about MAMAA?

Re: Meta

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Post by tyrfing »

nemothekid wrote: post #28

Personally, I'm less bullish on FB/Meta now. Half of me believes if someone can turn it around it would be Zuck, and the other half believes that FB's culture has optimized the wrong the thing for the past 5 years. Consider this, and call me out if I'm wrong, for the past 5 years we were led to believe by FB/YouTube that algorithmically generated could only have negative consequences as it moved people to more and mo…

3-5 years ago, the prevailing narrative about Facebook and other social media was that of the 'filter bubble', where you would only see things you agreed with. More recently, it's been a 180 to decrying Facebook force-feeding users content they disagree with. TikTok is basically the old model, the one that was blamed for things like Trump being elected.
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