Hahaha! Opened the about page and Zuckerberg's face is right on the top :D This doesn't look like a good rebranding! Young people don't want Zuckerberg's social networks. They need something new.
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#152https://meta.com is live as well. ...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.
It's definitely intentional
It is strange that it doesn't use any type of animated transition so it does look like a typical FOUC issue even though it probably isn't.
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#153Still a terrible, terrible organisation that's detrimental to societies and humankind as such.
Is it FB or social media and big tech in general? I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden.
FB being the biggest and the one most likely to shape our society, they deserve the spotlight.
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#154Meta or Facebook makes no difference. Nothing is going to change with this company until they are forced to publish their algorithms.
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#155 The whole "Metaverse" thing reads like E. M. Forster's, The Machine Stops.
Now we'll never need to leave our houses. All thanks to Facebo... Uh, Meta.
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#156MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice
I'm gonna miss FAGMAN.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds?
VRChat seems to have landed on something close to the right balance of whatever it takes to make it happen. It's apparently easy enough for someone to make a whole meme world for an event in the news in time for it to be relevant: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/11/9/21557029/four-season... The video in the initial tweet is up to 2.1 million views: https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1325710953305026560?... VR…
Facebook will try to buy VRChat.
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#158If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance. I could see this flubbing out hard otherwise. I'm personally…
There needs to be many metaverses, and NFT's should be able to be shared between them. It's dangerous to think about the prospect of a major company like Facebook (Or a DAO for that matter) locking up the entire universe.
Why NFT? Why can't we just "import jpeg" instead of "link NFT"?
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#159My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.
Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me. Anyone know if people there are heavily influenced by his work?
> Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me.
How so? Searching for "metaverse" on LW yields 9 results, most of them are irrelevant.
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#160If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance. I could see this flubbing out hard otherwise. I'm personally…
We could rename metaverse. Maybe derive prefixes from chemistry? Meta, ortho, para. Paraverse. Orthoverse. We can't keep using metaverse now.
Subverse? Universe within a universe, a sub universe.