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    I, on the other hand, can’t understand why, in a big part of the normie Internet sphere, the Metaverse has been hyped and appreciated so much - by the same people that don’t know Mozilla had basically already created the Metaverse, many years prior, with Mozilla Hubs.

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    It looks like corporate artstyle in general. Honestly I’ll never get into VR in general, but I got acquaintances who are VRC junkies, and they show super neat stuff from there, meanwhile Facebook over here (I refuse to call it Meta. The ‘metaverse’ as a fiction concept was super cool and I am still salty zuck decided to make it the name of his ugly-ass experiment) with this personality-free uncustomisable garbage.

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    Even Habbo Hotel was better If someone like a virtualworls like this, there are better alternatives, for example Mozilla Hub, free, open source and account optional. https://hubs.mozilla.com, although the design is somewhat…ehm.

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    Now that Tiktok is crushing Instagram, Zuck needs a new buzzword to keep stock values high. That’s why he pivoted to the Metaverse.

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      Yup, I think that’s the motivation as well. What’s hilarious is that this kind of stuff’s been done before many times already with Second Life being a prime example. There’s nothing fundamentally different about Metaverse except that now you have to buy hardware to even use it. I expect it’s going to be a huge flop in the end, and we’re already seeing signs of that with lukewarm reception and their stocks starting to tank.

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    Nope. Zuck and the other people leading Facebook have absolutely 0 taste and all they know is how to buy or copy competitors.

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    This somehow looks even worse than that Puerto Rico disaster zone “tour” from a few years back.

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    Ouch, it hasn’t progressed at all since last time he got roasted for pretty much the same screenshot