「 The billions of dollars invested and the breathless hype around a half-baked concept led to thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people losing their jobs 」
「 The company has even stopped pitching the Metaverse to advertisers, despite spending more than $100 billion in research and development on its mission to be "Metaverse first." While Zuckerberg may suggest that developing games for the Quest headsets is some sort of investment, the writing is on the wall: Meta is done with the Metaverse 」 #Metaverse#Meta#zuckerberg
「 It should also be the cause for some serious reflection among the venture-capital community, which recklessly followed Zuckerberg into blowing billions of dollars on a hype cycle founded on the flimsiest possible press-release language. In a just world, Mark Zuckerberg should be fired as CEO of Meta (in the real world, this is actually impossible) 」 #Metaverse#Meta#Zuckerberg
I don't think that the idea behind the #metaverse is dead. #Gaming industry is huge and highly profitable, and the only thing missing is a smaller and cheaper headset.
The decision of #Zuckerberg and his company #Meta to focus on the #Ai in the meantime, just shows they're desperate for growth and profit ASAP.
Even though #virtualReality will bring many troubles with it's widespread usage (#addiction and #asocial behavior first comes to mind), I think it's inevitable.
@molly0xfff move fast and break things. Or listen to the talk #zuckerberg gave at #Harvard#CS50 class years ago where he said in #tech it’s better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.
I was recently at an AI (strategy) symposium of about roughly 15 diverse people from different companies.
We could have developed such a strategy pretty quickly. #Suckerberg has thousands of employees and consultants.
The danger to his biz model is so obvious...
Many people have been asking me over the last few months to share my Twitter threads regarding lawsuits threatening Google, Facebook and others over here. I'll try to be better as developments play out but here is one relevant to today. Thanks. https://mstdn.social/@jasonkint/110073102431369061
I.e. many more apps (>2 million) and way over 100k of developers from high-risk foreign countries like #Russia, #China, and #NothKorea, with access to sensitive personal information of users and their #sociographs.
More #US and other countries' #elections can be strongly influenced by (hostile) foreign countries.
Embrace: Look, we've launched a shiny new Twitter clone!
It's not an empty new social platform, like Google Plus was. You can already access all the content on Mastodon and all the other ActivityPub-based platforms!
We've seen the light! We now embrace open networks!
And it's so simple!
All you people who wanted to switch to Mastodon, but freaked out when you read the word "server" and thought it was too complicated for you, no fear! We've done away with the confusing choice for you! It's a super simple UX!
Extend: Our shiny new Twitter clone now integrates seamlessly with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more! You can even get notifications in Horizon Worlds!
Oh, we're not integrating our other platforms to ActivityPub. If you want one easy platform for Meta's social media platforms and ActivityPub, our Twitter clone is your only choice!
To advertisers and media, we'll let you boost posts too, for a tiny fee!
We'll feature you prominently on our new algorithmic feed.
So don't bother spinning up your own Masto instance, join us instead!
Extinguish: As of 1 July, we are depreciating support for ActivityPub.
Also, effective immediately, our privacy terms have been updated. You won't believe what we hid on page 76.
"Facebook è un cancro per la democrazia la cui metastasi sta generando una macchina per la propaganda e la sorveglianza globale in grado di sostenere i regimi autoritari e distruggere la società civile per profitto"
La politica americana Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, da sempre critica nei confronti dei colossi tecnologici statunitensi, ha fortemente criticato #Zuckerberg, #Facebook e la sua trasformazione in #Meta definendoli “un cancro per la democrazia”