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0 pointslogic_beats_pro4y ago0 comments

_A_ Metaverse will be controlled by Facebook. One will be controlled by Microsoft, one will be controlled by NVIDIA, many will be decentralized using blockchain technologies like Web3. I see no reason to give the term to Facebook, just because they announced their product first. It's an arms race and Facebook merely fired the first shot.

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krapp4y ago· 1 in thread

No one was even talking about the "metaverse" until Facebook mentioned it. After Facebook mentioned it, no one was talking about anything other than what Facebook (or Meta) would do with it. Anyone looking to provide services or create content for the Metaverse is focusing on Facebook. All of the discussion on Hacker News about the metaverse is relative to Facebook.

There is no arms race here. There won't be many "decentralized" versions "using blockchain technologies." Maybe there will be one, and as with all other decentralized alternatives to social media, most people won't care about it. Everyone else will be using Facebook's version because everyone is already using Facebook and they already own the cultural mindshare. No one cares about NVIDIA's Omniverse.

Maybe Apple or Microsoft or Google also offer versions, but all of them will be centralized.

Sorry, you've already lost. And Web3 is just a scam.

AlchemistCamp4y ago

People have been talking about building the metaverse since Neil Stevenson coined the term in Snow Crash in 1992.

> "Sorry, you've already lost. And Web3 is just a scam."

Generic dismissals like that aren't helpful.

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