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The entire god-damn point of "the metaverse," in the book every tech-bro dingus stole it from, was that it encompassed ALL online media. There can only be one or zero. It was everything. It was the entire global internet, as embodied VR.
Which is obviously ridiculous. But apparently not obvious enough, as these dinguses missed that Snow Crash is a satire of 1980s cyberpunk.
Not sure what your excuse is for missing the equally obvious absurdity of championing competing walled gardens as a shift against centralization. What a shame there's no giant global network that nobody owns, to demonstrate how something can be singular without being a monopoly.
"I have my own internet at home." Ridiculous.
When people name call, it means they are emotional. Probably worth inspecting why.
You are taking a fictional book and taking it as the modern definition of the Metaverse and that is just not the case. The name may have started in a book, but it really has taken on a life of its own and there has not been a second contender for the name.
Who said anything about competing walled gardens? Some are walled. Some are open source. Some you pay to access. Some are feee. You just seem angry and yelling at the clouds.
I'm describing how demonstrably-fucked-up people like Mark Zuckerberg have stomped all meaning out of an interesting concept, to the point the word means whateverthefuck the speaker wants. I've seen conversations - interviews - published articles, where people slap the label on some lofty goal, as if that's gotta be what everyone else means, when they promise they're gonna do one. In their mouths it somehow means everything from full-dive brain-jack Ghost In The Shell shit to... Second Life.
And the brain-jack shit is somehow closer to what the word's supposed to mean.
You.
It's why you're worried about a monopoly.
The fact you think you've also got some metaverse in a jar, free-range and vegan, doesn't change that.
I am just one indie developer making a Metaverse app. Hardly a walled garden outside of charging a fee to access as it does not build itself. I rather live in world with a 1,000 linked Metaverses all made by small teams of passionate people than one mega Metaverse that a corporation owns and we all have to bow too. Thankfully the latter seems to be what is unfolding. I urge you to support the indies if you value the future.
I urge you to look up what "latter" means.
And I guess I can't care that you're still talking about "many tiny internets" or I'll just go crazy.
Latter??? It is absolutely the correct word. Someone is digging hard here. Weird and Blocked.
Okay, for any observers less stubbornly wrong: "latter" means the last thing mentioned. This guy who cannot take the slightest criticism meant "former."
Or else is equally wrong about "unfolding." I'd ask, but fuck me, apparently.