Facebook is quietly buying up the metaverse

Let’s be clear: there is no “THE metaverse” yet. If there ever is, Facebook is unlikely to be the owner/primary facilitator of it. The article’s contents kind of say the same thing. The name change is pure hubris.

If there is eventually a metaverse, it will be an open protocol that can be run on any server. It seems unlikely that a real-world analogue of Snow Crash’s “The Street” will ever materialize though, because there is essentially no public computing space, and no plans for any.

I could be wrong: Zuck might mutate into a real-world L. Bob Rife, controlling the infrastructure and using it to stealthily subvert all of humankind to his own wishes through means that slip under most people’s radars.

Wait, hang on…

This is good. Let them burn cash and shares and time and get swallowed into the giant dud that the metaverse promises to be and hopefully it will implode the whole enterprise.

It will be a giant exercise in creative destruction that might mean I can talk to my aunt again without getting pilloried with anti vax and reactionary political nonsense.

Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google could easily outspend Facebook/Meta on metaverse efforts if they wanted to.

I will make a webserver and call it Social Media 2: Electric Boogaloo and I'll call it a metaverse.