Why does Zuckerberg focus on VR when WeChat has shown how much more of a platform Facebook could be?
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Why? You don't have to transport VR. VR is the complement to mobile phones: mobile phones are used when you leave home, VR is used when you don't leave home.
The big question is: Are people going to leave home or are they going to stay home?
My guess is that it depends on how much energy is available. If there is no infrastructure worth visiting for billions of people, then VR will become a success.
>It needs to be inexpensive enough that everyone on Earth who currently has a smartphone can afford one.
If work happens in VR, then employer will finance the hardware for their employees.
Do you know https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/? It is open source [1] so you could adjust it to your needs.
>If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on!
It is annoying but it can be seen as part of his argument. How can spam be moderated if even trustworthy creators create spam?
According to him, it's not spam because it doesn't fulfill the typical patterns of spam, which shows that identifying noise does require knowledge of the language.
It could be interesting to turn his argument around. Instead of trying to remove all spam, a platform could offer the tools to handle all forms of spam and let its users come up with clever ways to use those tools.
It's even cheaper to fix the farting cows: Just stop raising cows.
Of course, if you want to supplement beef and dairy products, it's not that easy. But if we would believe that global warming and methane were a problem, we could make a difference within weeks.
To me, it would also be important that the data is stored in an encrypted form on the server and that the key remains in the browser and has to be stored by me.
Personally, I would like to have the option to discover people who work on similar notes, think travel app [1] for mental journeys. It would also be nice to have some social features like voting on links or sharing notes or sets of notes so that others can annotate them. Bonus points if those social features use an open protocol so that users from other note taking apps can join.
Should society adapt to the social networks or should the social networks adapt to society?
Social networks make the problems of society visible. Does this mean that all social problems have to be resolved? Social networks can also be designed in a way that society can continue as it is.
Even if it is necessary to resolve the personal and social problems, how could they be resolved without technology? There are no new problems, they are just more visible. If researchers haven't resolved them until now, chances are that they won't resolve them soon without game-changing new technology.
Instead of seeking a job, why not create an environment that allows you to code? You could become a Youtube or Twitch streamer or you could seek angle investors that pay for your projects.
Please don't leave us hanging. How had you designed it?
I would like to know even more: Did you have integration with other networks via ActivityPub or other protocols?
There is a huge risk of wasting time if I cannot migrate my social network. New services are prone to being discontinued, why should I invest in a new network that locks me in?
I don't understand why not all new networks offer ActivityPub migration by default. Distribution should be much easier.
I would like to know why neither ActivityPub nor the Matrix protocol were adopted. Maybe https://atproto.com/ will gain the necessary momentum.
Elon has experience with Paypal. Payment and identity management is the core ingredient for an X app. Twitter gives him the user base, and he has overspent enough that everybody is aware of Twitter to easily acquire new users.
Somehow it became normal that big companies don't role out new features very often. That's not a given. Elon can reshape Twitter and turn its NASA-like development structure into a SpaceX structure. If Twitter runs like a startup it could be reshaped within months.
However, Elon could also create something like the Vegas tunnel which supposedly doesn't have the safety features to handle a fire very well. [1]
[1] https://reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/yeni5w/elons_boring_t...
So far!
If you work in VR, and meet in VR, why would you need a phone?
He didn't seem to realize that he most likely killed his marriage with that attitude. He was winning while losing.
>Have they not changed? This is a genuine question.
If Musk pays back the bank loans, there shouldn't be anybody who could force him to continue the ad business and he could offer Twitter for free.
A billion users, with 10 tweets per day, that's 4T tweets per year. At 250 bytes per tweet, that's 1P data. At $20 per terabyte, that's $20,000 per year. With the same amount for transfer and servers, Musk should be able to run Twitter for $100,000 plus employees.
With those costs, Twitter could be financed by offering image and video tweets as a paid feature for $1 per year.
>According to some 3rd party services [0] a 2000 user instance will cost me ~$90+taxes/month
How efficient is the usenet protocol? I would expect that it would require far less resources.
What's the technical reason for not using the usenet protocol for a federated social network?
The different connotations for birds and mastodons suggest that the platforms will reach entirely different user groups. If Musk doesn't push video and other technologies then Twitter has already reached its full potential market share. This leaves many opportunities to Mastodon. If the social climate gets colder, mastodons are better equipped than most birds. In a world of gene technology, extinction is only temporary.
Checksum.sh could keep track of checksums. Then an attacker has to alter the original script and checksum.sh.
That said, search engine for pay-walled sites with integrated micro payment isn't a bad outcome. What else could create an alternative to the ad-based business model?
Higher interest rates also lead to less borrowing which reduces the volume of available money. Together with the reduced velocity, this leads to an overall reduced throughput.
That said, why is money velocity, or throughput, reduced when inflation itself is a self-correcting problem?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system)#User...
You are technical correct but my point still stands. If the answer is no because we don't mine enough rivers and beaches, and we don't relocate enough of humanity, how will there be enough living space that people don't seek a distraction?
> The UN-Habitat reports that 43% of urban population in developing countries and 78% of those in the least developed countries are slum dwellers. [1]
People can live without VR but will they keep living without it once VR is available? People can also live without mobile phones or cars but whoever can, owns one.
It's cheaper to build a VR headset than to build a house. Whoever is poor will buy a VR headset way before they buy a house.
Facebook is already handing out free internet in poor countries. They can double down and hand out free VR headsets. If they play it right, they will own the platform for remote work. Let children in slums grow up in the Metaverse and they will be native English speakers, but they will work for $1 per day.
Quest is only expensive because it comes with all the processing infrastructure. Meta, as well as Apple and others, can split it up and offer a phone that can be connected to a VR headset. With subsidies, VR could be as cheap as $100. Why would somebody buy a big monitor or TV for gaming if they can have 3D for less?
Facebook has to spend now because there is no way to participate in the Metaverse if Apple was able to establish their platform. People shun green messages, they will never meet somebody who doesn't own Apple iGlasses or whatever they will be called.