Facebook Renames to Meta • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by sushsjsuauahab » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

r-r-r wrote: post #14

Nicely translates to "(shes's) dead" in Hebrew...

I believe the original Facebook name in Chinese (Mandarin) sounded something like "have to die" as well haha

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by specialp » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

quartz wrote: post #3

https://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.

Meta has been live for a while as a Chan-Zuckerberg foundation project in open publishing. It is crazy they hijacked it for the corporation!

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by ButterWashed » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

quartz wrote: post #3

https://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.

I'd say it's intentional, it highlights the transitional journey from one brand to another.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by djbusby » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

nescioquid wrote: post #37

djbusby wrote: post #4

Holy crap! I drunkenly guessed that lame-ass name. Somebody just got $1 richer!

In case you're still drunk, what will the new acronym be? MAANG? MAGNA? AANGM?

I'm hoping for some other rebrand and it can become MEGAMAN

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by systemvoltage » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

Netflix got shoved into this for no reason. It does not fit as "Big Tech".

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by echelon » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

daviding wrote: post #36

If 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.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by jrgd » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

Ridiculous Pointless Sad

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by joshenberg » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

daviding wrote: post #36

If 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…

That's what I wonder. Early VR adopters/technologists hate what happened to Oculus and there aren't a lot of newcomers to that market. I don't think cheaper headsets are going to fix that in the near future so I don't know whom they're targeting. Seems risky to lean into something where the experts already think you screwed up.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by Imnimo » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

I don't think this strategy really worked for Ron Artest, but maybe it'll work for Facebook.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by jamestimmins » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #69

Dystopian Ready Player One.

Fairly certain that's just Ready Player One