Just like that one time Netflix split into Qwikster... good times
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
The keynote video redirecting to a Facebook login screen is hilarious.
Why? The keynote video is on Facebook, that's why it would be redirecting you to a login screen.
I guess at least partially because part of the rebrand was supposed to be that you won't need a facebook account anymore to do meta things so gating the video is a little off-brand now.
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#73Basically name squatting off the popular use of "meta" to describe a self referential event/action. Also FB lately has become synonymous with causing significant harm to democracy across multiple continents. A corporate name change is a cheap way to deceive people in the future. When they (future generations) try to lookup the history of "Meta", they won't immediately see the crap that FB produced in the dark ages. I…
> Basically name squatting off the popular use of "meta" to describe a self referential event/action.
Ironically, this cannibalizing of the word "meta" makes me feel even more strongly in favor of breaking up the company.
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#74It is been finally admitted. Facebook Inc. aka Meta Inc. is going to kill Apple and put an end to the iPhone. Going to watch this. To Downvoters: Here's a reminder of how wrong the HN bubble was back then: [0] [1] This is the same place that reacted to Facebook acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to being the dumbest decisions Mark Zuckerberg made and now it became a $1T company with billions in profit and billions in m…
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#76So is this a Google -> Alphabet thing?
Or is "Facebook" being rebranded everywhere?
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#77Do humanity a favor and do not buy Oculus headsets.
Force them to remove Facebook login from headsets, and force them to open their VR platform to people using any headset.
If you don't, you may find yourself requiring an Oculus headset to work, do errands, etc. Just like Internet Explorer became the unavoidable plague of the 90s.
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#78The choice of "Meta" is very interesting. Chan-Zuckerberg started a project called "Meta" to increase the dissemination of science. This was a project going on for a while now [1] What does this mean for that? https://sociable.co/science/aaron-swartz-chan-zuckerberg-met...
They started the process of shuttering it ~6 months ago. My partner worked there for ~3 years. Despite meeting all their metrics for user growth and activity it was a decision that came out of the blue. Guess we know why though? Can't have it conflicting with the brand.
I remember that two weeks before the decision came down, and she and her team got blindsided, she told me how a bioeng researcher emailed her telling her that without their tool they never would've found the connections and research needed to solve the problem they were working on. Not sure why they didn't just rebrand the tool and team, but it's probably just a blip to the facebook execs.
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#79I don't understand what Facebook is even doing in terms of a metaverse. Like they have the VR goggles, but what are they actually doing with it?
Coincidentally, MMO developer Raph Koster (Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies) has recently been detailing in a series of articles what his new company is doing in terms of building a metaverse, and it's pretty exciting in gaming terms.
https://www.playableworlds.com/news/riffs-by-raph:-online-wo...
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#80If a metaverse is hosted by FB, it'll come with all the drama, nonsense and toxicity we see on there today. The product (ie, today's users of FB) is what stinks to high heavens.