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  1. @caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.

    The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.

    Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.

    NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.

    And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.

    No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.

    The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.

    In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.

    Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.

    Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.

    Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.

    But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.

    It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.

    Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.

    As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.

    Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.

    The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.

    In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.

    I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.

    Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.

    As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.

    OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.

    All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.

    Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash
  2. 🤡 Behold, the Temple of Transistors! 🖥️ Come worship relics like the #RangeKeeper Mark 7 and the revered Hollerith Punch Card—now open by appointment in the distant utopia of Fall 2025! 🙃 Who needs Google Maps when you've got a "decentralized" #Decentraland Project to get lost in? 🚀
    thecomputerchurch.org/ #TempleOfTransistors #HollerithPunchCard #TechUtopia #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 📈 El #metaverso experimenta un crecimiento del 83% en julio, impulsado por las nuevas actualizaciones y mejoras de #TheSandbox, #Decentraland y #Otherside.

  4. GameFi, Metaverse Crypto Sectors Lead With 100% Sandbox (SAND) Price Rally - The GameFi and Metaverse sectors have taken charge of the next leg of the crypto m... - coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse- #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi

  5. GameFi, Metaverse Crypto Sectors Lead With 100% Sandbox (SAND) Price Rally - The GameFi and Metaverse sectors have taken charge of the next leg of the crypto m... - coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse- #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi

  6. GameFi, Metaverse Crypto Sectors Lead With 100% Sandbox (SAND) Price Rally - The GameFi and Metaverse sectors have taken charge of the next leg of the crypto m... - coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse- #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi

  7. GameFi, Metaverse Crypto Sectors Lead With 100% Sandbox (SAND) Price Rally - The GameFi and Metaverse sectors have taken charge of the next leg of the crypto m... - coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse- #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi

  8. Aave And These 2 Altcoins Could Rise As Crypto Market Rebounds - Aave (AAVE), Decentraland (MANA), and The Graph (GRT) have emerged as three altcoi... - coingape.com/aave-and-these-tw #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptomarket #decentraland #altcoinnews #aaveprice #thegraph #aave

  9. Мы устали от созвонов и позвали команду в метавселенную. Как это было?

    А вы пробовали общаться с продуктовой командой за пределами обычных видеоконференций? Я написал про то, как начал проводить встречи с менеджерами банка в метаверс. В статье провожу обзорную экскурсию по мета-вселенной с картинками, делюсь историей моего становления как менеджера и перехода от дорожных карт к смыслам и ценностям. А ещё рассказываю, как заменил монолог «Прямой линии» на формат AMA (ask me anything), вдохновившись крипто-сообществом. Мне захотелось дать ребятам больше, чем цели и KPI. Что получилось — смотрите под катом.

    habr.com/ru/companies/alfa/art

    #meta #метавселенная #метаверс #enps #people_management #ask_me_anything #неформальное_общение #decentraland #spatial

  10. CW: An incomplete but quite representative list of metaverses; CW: long (over 2,500 characters), mild swearing, Meta/Facebook project mentioned
    • "The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
    • Cryptobros' attempted get-rich-quick schemes that imply that "the Metaverse" inevitably requires a blockchain, a cryptocurrency (usually either Dogecoin or Etherium or something running on Etherium's blockchain) and expensive NFTs for everything including land. Not seldomly buggy as hell because in-world experience doesn't earn the world owners any money.
    • More or less failed attempts by other huge gigacorporations to launch their own monolithic walled garden metaverses for as many use-cases as imaginable. Failed because they came too late.
    • The industrial metaverse which is still only a vague idea and probably another buzzword like "the cloud" and "the blockchain".
    • Second Life which has slapped the term "metaverse" onto itself in 2022, trying to stay relevant in spite of stagnating user numbers and showing the world it's still around. This actually had even less of an effect than the comparisons between Horizons' simplistic avatars and Second Life's near-photo-realistic avatars and its 20th birthday PR campaign last year.
    • Roblox, VRchat, Minecraft etc. They don't even need to refer to themselves as "metaverses" because they're so popular with kids that not much more publicity is necessary.
    • OpenSimulator which is as decentralised as Decentraland implies to be but isn't. It has been using the term "metaverse" regularly since 2007, the year it was launched. But as it doesn't make a fuss about it, nobody outside its own community knows.
    • ThirdRoom which was one of the first FLOSS virtual worlds to work in a standard Web browser rather than requiring a specialised client. Its future is unclear because all three devs are on an indefinite hiatus.
    • Vircadia, a HighFidelity fork, and Overte, a Vircadia fork, both trying to build the decentralised next-generation open-source metaverses with some interesting ideas, but neither having a significant community, and both being every bit as obscure and unknown as OpenSim.
    • The proposed decentralised, standardised, open metaverse for everyone. Which might not even come because the virtual worlds hype of 2020 is over for obvious reasons, and whoever else would be interested in it is probably busy in other virtual worlds already.


    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #VirtualWorlds #Meta #MetaMeta #Horizons #SecondLife #OpenSimulator #Decentraland #Roblox #VRchat #ThirdRoom #Vircadia #Overte #TheMetaverse #Metaverse
  11. MANA, SAND, AXS, Among Top Gaming Crypto To Watch This Christmas - While most of the top cryptocurrencies are experiencing a fall, popular gaming cry... - coingape.com/mana-sand-axs-amo #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptocurrencygaming #decentraland(mana) #sandbox(sand) #axieinfinity #altcoinnews

  12. Bored Apes Creator Yuga Labs and Magic Eden Collaborate to Fix NFT Royalties Problem – What's Going On? - The consortium of major Web3 companies OMA3 (the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3), has f... - cryptonews.com/news/bored-apes #non-fungibletokens #unstoppabledomains #animocabrands #decentraland #dapperlabs #thesandbox #metaverse #magiceden #yugalabs #nftnews #fees #web3 #nft #art #dao

  13. @Cyborg 2-A ✅
    And then we have DECENTRALAND which is totally not decentralized. (Prove me wrong please show me the code) Their site reads that they are "the first and only decentralized open source metaverse that started in 2020" oh yeah that sounds legit right there.

    One of the reasons why I've made this:



    #Decentraland #OpenMetaverse #OpenMetaverseAlliance #OMA #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Meme #ThatsCute
  14. That quote from Tim Sweeney was presented in one of the opening chapters of a long but entertaining web video called 'The Future is a Dead Mall':

    piped.video/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8

    Produced by Folding Ideas, it's a deconstruction of the VR hype cycle though the lens of "Metaverse" rhetoric. As a specific example, a crypto pump'n'dumper's online utopia called Decentraland.

    More of this kind of video on #PeerTube please!

    #FoldingIdeas #TimSweeney #VR #Metaverse #crypto #BlockChain #Decentraland

  15. @Cheryl Furse

    > Where is a crypto crash?
    2022 especially.
    #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_bubble#2021%E2%80%932023_crash
    #^https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145297807/crypto-crash-ftx-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
    More recently: #^https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/06/10/bloodbath-sudden-1-trillion-crypto-crash-sparks-fresh-coinbase-warning-and-tanks-the-price-of-bitcoin-ethereum-bnb-xrp-cardano-dogecoin-polygon-and-solana/

    > Opensim a success? We are just 200 real people with thousands of alts.
    That's your personal perception which you yourself think you "know" for a "fact".

    If you really think this is a cold, hard fact, please prove it with a link to statistics.

    By the way, here come cold, hard facts: the Hypergrid Business stats from June 15th.

    #HypergridBusiness reports 424 active grids. Everyone would have to run at least two grids.

    You refuse to believe that number? You think it's made up? It isn't just a number. Here's a list of all 424 grids. Count them. Then check the links. Almost all of them should be active.

    125,841 standard regions on the reporting grids alone = each user has to have almost 630 standard regions on average.

    #OSgrid alone reported 27,325 standard regions. If everyone had land on OSgrid, that'd be almost 130 standard regions per #OpenSim user.

    Also, as of today, by the way, OSgrid lists 5,689 sims (taking varsims into account) on its official website, all by name. Only few of them are official. All the others are hosted by their owners and attached to OSgrid externally. OSgrid does not offer land rentals.

    If every OpenSim user had land on OSgrid, everyone would have 28 sims or more on average attached to OSgrid. That's enough land for a stand-alone grid.

    If you claim for a fact that this is bullshit, and either OSgrid or its staff makes up most of the names on the list, go in-world and check on the map whether these sims actually exist on the OSgrid map. Mind you, they may be offline. Many of them run on people's Windows PCs which they shut down when they don't need them. Nonetheless, these sims have existed and been online recently.

    And that's only OSgrid. On average, everyone would have to own countless sims alll across the Hypergrid.

    > I would compare much more with sim city. In opensim anyway, because most are just building landscapes and take pictures of it. SimCity has some more goals. lol

    Goes to show you don't get out much.

    What people actually do is hoard freebies and party. Female users also play Barbie with their avatars. And some have virtual sex.

    But in general, most users don't spend more time than absolutely necessary decorating sims. Look at those many freebie sims that look like they were slapped together within one afternoon.

    > You didn't mention thirdroom. Why?

    Because I only wanted to pick out a few examples. If I had to include #ThirdRoom, I would also have to cover #VRchat and #Vircadia and #Overte and #RecRoom and #MozillaHubs etc. etc., just to give each and every virtual world out there a fair treatment. The article would have grown HUMONGOUS.

    Even when it only came to free, open-source, decentralised virtual worlds, I would also have had to mention and analyse Vircadia, Overte and Mozilla Hubs and rip #Decentraland apart for lying into people's faces.

    Besides, I know you're a huge Third Room fangurl. But Third Room is far from being as successful as #SecondLife or #Minecraft or #Roblox. It's a tech preview. It's in a very very early stage. It's far from having a community of thousands, having in-world places that you can spend weeks or months or years exploring, having in-world events etc.

    Right now, Third Room is only just barely where Second Life was in 2002, only with public access. It is where OpenSim was in July 2007, immediately after OSgrid was launched, and before people flocked into OSgrid, claimed land and started building.

    Also, since Third Room is based on Unity, this blocks creativity. Everything has to be built and scripted outside Third Room. That's like building an entire Second Life or OpenSim sim outside Second Life/OpenSim, scripting it outside Second Life/OpenSim, then dropping the whole thing into Second Life/OpenSim in one chunk, and if you want to change even a small detail, you have to go back outside Second Life/OpenSim and go through almost the whole process again because Unity doesn't let you do shit in-world.

    > For opensim I only see one big problem. Stone age technology. Especially because of openGL and Firestorm still thinks we live in a 8 bit world.

    32-bit. Second Life wouldn't even be technologically possible in 16-bit, much less 8-bit.

    Also, you claim that #OpenGL is stone-age technology because its initial release was in 1992. Well, bad news for you: Your precious, oh-so-powerful MacBook Air M1 runs on an operating system from the age of dinosaurs. It's basically #BSD (macOS is based on Darwin, and Darwin is based on BSD), and BSD is from 1977.

    Oh, and by the way, OpenGL has advanced over time. The minimum version required for the official Second Life viewer is 3.2 from August 2009, the minimum version recommended is 4.6 from July 2017.

    > This can be changed if there would be young developers interested in creating high end graphics. But you have only nostalgic 60 years old men in opensim who are not skilled to develop new technology.

    Another false claim of you which you "know" for a "fact": Everyone in OpenSim except for you is a crusty old geezer at an average age of 60 years.

    > Thirdroom has 20 years old kids already who can develop new technology

    LOL ROFL

    Okay, let's check the factuality of this.

    This is the Third Room code repository on GitHub.

    The contributors, at least those that aren't bots, are:
    Robert Long, software engineer
    Nate Martin
    Ajay Bura
    Matthew Hodgson
    Rhea Danzey, senior SRE
    Hugh Nimmo-Smith
    antpb
    Travis Ralston, senior software developer

    At the age of 20, you can't be an engineer. You can't have an engineer's degree of any kind. You're still in university or college.

    At the age of 20, you certainly can't have "senior" in your official job title.

    At least some of these developers don't even look like they're 20. Not 25 either. Not even 30.

    So next time you present your personal perception as cold, hard, undeniable facts, prove them. Or don't complain when someone comes with actual facts that contradict what you say and proves these.
  16. Decentraland is Going to Zero as the SEC Says MANA is a Security but This New Sustainable Crypto Could Be the Next Crypto to Explode – Here's How it Works - Analysts are warning that Decentraland’s $MANA token could be going to zero in wake of th... - cryptonews.com/news/decentrala #decentraland #altcoinnews #greencrypto #ecoterra #presale #mana #sec

  17. It may be a pancake. It may neither have easy support for VR headsets nor guarantee you 60fps even if you get it to run through a VR headset. But it was there before all of you. It used the term #Metaverse many years before any one of you had even heard of it.



    The #Hypergrid, the interconnection between #OpenSimulator grids, is 15 years old this year. And yes, #OpenSim is actually #decentralised like you wouldn't believe. Over 420 big and small public grids and over 8,000 privately-run, home-hosted grids based on #DreamGrid, over 95% of which are on the Hypergrid, say a lot, I guess.

    Oh, and it needs no #blockchain, it needs no #cryptocurrency, and it needs no #NFTs. It runs on the same technology as #SecondLife (which celebrates its 20th birthday this year, as in it's still alive, too) while being fully #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware.

    #Decentraland #OpenMetaverseAlliance #OMA #OpenMetaverse #Decentralized #Decentralization #Decentralised #Decentralisation #VirtualWorlds #Meme #ThatsCute
  18. Pennod mis Mawrth... but make it Mis Ebrill!

    Yup, mae hi di bod yn bit of a Mis i'r Hacledwyr, so gyda diolch aruthrol i skill golygu @iestynx - dyma chi bennod newydd just mewn pryd!
    Https://Haclediad.cymru/120

    Ni'n siarad am AI, #decentraland, a llwyth mwy mis yma - tanysgrifiwch!

    O.n. Wir, dim re-watch o Diana the Musical ydy'r ffilm mis yma... 20 dogecoin i unrhyw un sy'n nabod y ffilm di-ddim yma😅
    #podcast #podlediad #welsh #dysgucymraeg #badmoviereview #tech #technology #technews

  19. @julieofthespirits Nah, just recently watched the Dan Olson #FoldingIdeas video essay on #Decentraland ("The Future Is A Dead Mall") and got blown away once again by how Libertarians/AnCaps see the world and envision utopia

    youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q

  20. Best Crypto to Buy Today 30 January – MEMAG, MINA, FGHT, MANA, CCHG - Bitcoin's price has dropped 1.8% to $23,171 in the past 24 hours as the cryptocurrency ma... - cryptonews.com/news/best-crypt #decentralandprice #decentraland #altcoinnews #web3gaming #manaprice #minaprice #fightout #memag #mina #fght #mana #cchg