#decentraland — Public Fediverse posts
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@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 -
@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 -
La Conexión Entre Metaverso y Criptomonedas#Criptomonedas #AxieInfinity #Blockchain #Criptomoedas #Decentraland #interoperabilidade #Metaverso #nfts #realidadevirtual #TecnologiaBlockchain #TheSandbox Descubre la conexión entre metaverso y criptomonedas. Explora cómo estas tecnologías están transformando nuestra vida y el futuro digital.
https://djltrading.com/la-conexion-entre-metaverso-criptomonedas/?fsp_sid=41445 -
🤡 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? 🚀
https://www.thecomputerchurch.org/ #TempleOfTransistors #HollerithPunchCard #TechUtopia #HackerNews #ngated -
🤡 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? 🚀
https://www.thecomputerchurch.org/ #TempleOfTransistors #HollerithPunchCard #TechUtopia #HackerNews #ngated -
»How #BlockchainMarkets Are #Priced and #Traded: The relationship between metaverse cryptocurrency prices and LAND NFT prices, focusing on #Decentraland’s #MANA and The ‘Sandbox’s #SAND.« https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-markets-are-priced-and-traded?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
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»How #BlockchainMarkets Are #Priced and #Traded: The relationship between metaverse cryptocurrency prices and LAND NFT prices, focusing on #Decentraland’s #MANA and The ‘Sandbox’s #SAND.« https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-markets-are-priced-and-traded?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
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Can MANA reclaim $0.4?
After touching this level earlier this month, Decentraland is under pressure again - down 8% in 24h and struggling near $0.31. Is a rebound still possible? We break down the key signals here: https://auriccrypto.com/altcoins/technical-analysis-can-decentraland-mana-break-0-4/
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»#TheMetaverse Autopsy: What Really Happened to #Decentraland.« https://blockster.com/the-metaverse-autopsy-what-really-happened-to-decentraland?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
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»#TheMetaverse Autopsy: What Really Happened to #Decentraland.« https://blockster.com/the-metaverse-autopsy-what-really-happened-to-decentraland?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures
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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... - https://coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse-crypto-sectors-lead-100-sandbox-sand-price-rally/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi
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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... - https://coingape.com/gamefi-metaverse-crypto-sectors-lead-100-sandbox-sand-price-rally/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #axieinfinity(axs) #sandbox(sand) #decentraland #sandboxprice #altcoinnews #galagames #sandprice #gamefi
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"#Decentraland—a virtual 'sandbox' where users can buy and sell virtual real estate—had just 38 active users over a single 24-hour period. Let’s say that again: Just 38. The company’s market cap at the time was around $1.3 billion." http://wired.com/story/where-have-all-the-chief-metaverse-officers-gone
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"#Decentraland—a virtual 'sandbox' where users can buy and sell virtual real estate—had just 38 active users over a single 24-hour period. Let’s say that again: Just 38. The company’s market cap at the time was around $1.3 billion." http://wired.com/story/where-have-all-the-chief-metaverse-officers-gone
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How metaverse platforms could solve the loneliness epidemic - The growing social media and online gaming usage will require more decen... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/metaverse-solve-loneliness-epidemic-decentraland #lonelinessepidemic #play-to-earn. #decentraland #loneliness #web3gaming #metaverse #web3
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How metaverse platforms could solve the loneliness epidemic - The growing social media and online gaming usage will require more decen... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/metaverse-solve-loneliness-epidemic-decentraland #lonelinessepidemic #play-to-earn. #decentraland #loneliness #web3gaming #metaverse #web3
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Decentraland X account hacked, phishing scam targets MANA airdrop - PeckShield warns Decentraland followers of an ongoing phishing attack us... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentraland-x-account-hacked-phishing-attack-mana-airdrop #blockchainsecurity #peckshieldalert #phishingattack #xaccounthacked #decentraland #manaairdrop #cryptoscam
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Decentraland X account hacked, phishing scam targets MANA airdrop - PeckShield warns Decentraland followers of an ongoing phishing attack us... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentraland-x-account-hacked-phishing-attack-mana-airdrop #blockchainsecurity #peckshieldalert #phishingattack #xaccounthacked #decentraland #manaairdrop #cryptoscam
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Aave And These 2 Altcoins Could Rise As Crypto Market Rebounds - Aave (AAVE), Decentraland (MANA), and The Graph (GRT) have emerged as three altcoi... - https://coingape.com/aave-and-these-two-altcoins-could-rise-as-crypto-market-rebounds/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptomarket #decentraland #altcoinnews #aaveprice #thegraph #aave
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Aave And These 2 Altcoins Could Rise As Crypto Market Rebounds - Aave (AAVE), Decentraland (MANA), and The Graph (GRT) have emerged as three altcoi... - https://coingape.com/aave-and-these-two-altcoins-could-rise-as-crypto-market-rebounds/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptomarket #decentraland #altcoinnews #aaveprice #thegraph #aave
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Decentraland (MANA) Price Setting Back Its Recovery Path: New ATH? - Most cryptocurrencies are facing a drop in the crypto market, causing significant pressur... - https://coingape.com/blog/decentraland-mana-price-setting-back-its-recovery-path-new-ath/ #decentralandpriceanalysis #decentraland(mana) #manapriceanalysis #blog
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Decentraland (MANA) Price Setting Back Its Recovery Path: New ATH? - Most cryptocurrencies are facing a drop in the crypto market, causing significant pressur... - https://coingape.com/blog/decentraland-mana-price-setting-back-its-recovery-path-new-ath/ #decentralandpriceanalysis #decentraland(mana) #manapriceanalysis #blog
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@Katja Diehl
Drittens: die Träume zahlloser Cryptobros vom schnellen Geld. Der Trick geht so: Man plant ein "Metaverse" aus Basis einer Blockchain inklusive einer Kryptowährung. Dann verbreitet man die Propaganda, daß virtuelle 3-D-Welten ohne Blockchains, Kryptowährungen und NFTs technologisch vollkommen unmöglich sind.
Dann verkauft man Besitzurkunden für sauteures virtuelles Land als NFTs, die natürlich nur gegen Kryptowährung erhältlich sind. Für Eigenwerbung nutzt man KI-generierte Bilder hyperfuturistischer Cityscapes, weil man noch gar keine virtuelle Welt zum Vorzeigen hat. Dann erst kümmert man sich vielleicht darum, daß tatsächlich mal eine virtuelle Welt zum Laufen kommt.
Na ja, "Laufen". Nur ein paar sind tatsächlich gestartet, aber alles andere als erfolgreich und alles andere als verläßlich. Decentraland ist ein Paradebeispiel: Es vermarktet sich als "das erste dezentrale Metaverse überhaupt", was Bullshit ist (dazu komme ich im sechsten Teil), und es hat kaum Nutzer, auch weil es sagenhaft verbuggt ist. Viele Projekte gingen sogar durch Kryptocrashes den Bach runter, bevor es irgendwelches Land gab, weil zum einen die Cryptobros und zum anderen ihre Kunden sagenhaft viel Geld verloren haben.
CC: die anderen bisherigen Threadteilnehmer, @Tenkoman, @Kevin Karhan :verified:, @Nowhere!Fast!, @C.Suthorn :prn:, @Jan Kruse
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@Katja Diehl
Drittens: die Träume zahlloser Cryptobros vom schnellen Geld. Der Trick geht so: Man plant ein "Metaverse" aus Basis einer Blockchain inklusive einer Kryptowährung. Dann verbreitet man die Propaganda, daß virtuelle 3-D-Welten ohne Blockchains, Kryptowährungen und NFTs technologisch vollkommen unmöglich sind.
Dann verkauft man Besitzurkunden für sauteures virtuelles Land als NFTs, die natürlich nur gegen Kryptowährung erhältlich sind. Für Eigenwerbung nutzt man KI-generierte Bilder hyperfuturistischer Cityscapes, weil man noch gar keine virtuelle Welt zum Vorzeigen hat. Dann erst kümmert man sich vielleicht darum, daß tatsächlich mal eine virtuelle Welt zum Laufen kommt.
Na ja, "Laufen". Nur ein paar sind tatsächlich gestartet, aber alles andere als erfolgreich und alles andere als verläßlich. Decentraland ist ein Paradebeispiel: Es vermarktet sich als "das erste dezentrale Metaverse überhaupt", was Bullshit ist (dazu komme ich im sechsten Teil), und es hat kaum Nutzer, auch weil es sagenhaft verbuggt ist. Viele Projekte gingen sogar durch Kryptocrashes den Bach runter, bevor es irgendwelches Land gab, weil zum einen die Cryptobros und zum anderen ihre Kunden sagenhaft viel Geld verloren haben.
CC: die anderen bisherigen Threadteilnehmer, @Tenkoman, @Kevin Karhan :verified:, @Nowhere!Fast!, @C.Suthorn :prn:, @Jan Kruse
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #Metaverse #Metaversum #VirtuelleWelten #Crypto #Cryptobros #Decentraland -
New video showing the Decentraland Godot client working in VR as a Quest 2 app :woohoo:
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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.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/alfa/articles/790624/
#meta #метавселенная #метаверс #enps #people_management #ask_me_anything #неформальное_общение #decentraland #spatial
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#Decentraland published its plans for 2024. Some good news:
- They will put some healthy distance with the crypto world, stopping using "crypto slang", allowing to singup with email, and showing up on gamedev summits like #GDC .
- They will put "user experience" first, rewriting the client, and reworking the servers to foster social interaction and bring the virtual world to life.
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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 - "The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
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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 - "The Metaverse". Actually named Horizons. Get that into your heads, dammit. And yes, I'm talking about Meta's worlds.
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Magic Leap Execs Believe Metaverse Needs to Focus on Real-World: Report - The Mixed Reality company has raised nearly $4 billion, as metaverse tokens are solidly i... - https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2024/01/17/magic-leap-execs-believe-metaverse-needs-to-focus-on-real-world-report/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #decentraland #thesandbox #metaverse #web3 #news
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Magic Leap Execs Believe Metaverse Needs to Focus on Real-World: Report - The Mixed Reality company has raised nearly $4 billion, as metaverse tokens are solidly i... - https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2024/01/17/magic-leap-execs-believe-metaverse-needs-to-focus-on-real-world-report/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #decentraland #thesandbox #metaverse #web3 #news
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MANA, SAND, AXS, Among Top Gaming Crypto To Watch This Christmas - While most of the top cryptocurrencies are experiencing a fall, popular gaming cry... - https://coingape.com/mana-sand-axs-among-top-gaming-crypto-to-watch-this-christmas/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptocurrencygaming #decentraland(mana) #sandbox(sand) #axieinfinity #altcoinnews
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MANA, SAND, AXS, Among Top Gaming Crypto To Watch This Christmas - While most of the top cryptocurrencies are experiencing a fall, popular gaming cry... - https://coingape.com/mana-sand-axs-among-top-gaming-crypto-to-watch-this-christmas/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptocurrencygaming #decentraland(mana) #sandbox(sand) #axieinfinity #altcoinnews
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Metaverse Evolution | Decentraland, Sandbox, GameSt Memes
#GameStop #Memes #Metaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox
https://www.niftysparks.com/blogs?recordId=reca7imd8eJauAil0 -
CW: SpaceX's Starship launch
Watching #SpaceX 's #Starship launch in #Decentraland 🚀
If you want to try it join in here: https://play.decentraland.org/?position=47%2C-44&island=defaulte3zp&realm=main
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Decentraland's AI World Fair seeks to show there's life in the metaverse yet for brands
#DCL #Decentraland #AIworldfair #metaverse #Web3
https://www.niftysparks.com/blogs?recordId=recmSRwp3utdeejWe -
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... - https://cryptonews.com/news/bored-apes-creator-yuga-labs-magic-eden-collaborate-fix-nft-royalties-problem-whats-going-on.htm #non-fungibletokens #unstoppabledomains #animocabrands #decentraland #dapperlabs #thesandbox #metaverse #magiceden #yugalabs #nftnews #fees #web3 #nft #art #dao
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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... - https://cryptonews.com/news/bored-apes-creator-yuga-labs-magic-eden-collaborate-fix-nft-royalties-problem-whats-going-on.htm #non-fungibletokens #unstoppabledomains #animocabrands #decentraland #dapperlabs #thesandbox #metaverse #magiceden #yugalabs #nftnews #fees #web3 #nft #art #dao
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💡Metaverso ? L’IA ne ha decretato la fine, per ora.
Il gruppo Meta di Mark Zuckerberg licenzierà diverse persone all'interno dei team di Reality Labs, divisione dedicata alle tecnologie del metaverso e della realtà virtuale.https://gomoot.com/metaverso-lia-ne-ha-decretato-la-fine-per-ora/
#AI #ia #blockchain #decentraland #Meta #connect #metaverso #nft
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Nice work also on the #Bevy #Decentraland client !
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Awesome progress on the #Decentraland client in #Godot , featuring the iOS build.
Including multiplayer now!
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@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 -
@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 -
Chapter 5 of 'The Future is a Dead Mall', entitled 'A Child's Vision of Governance', is an insightful takedown of some of the failure models of DAOs:
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Chapter 5 of 'The Future is a Dead Mall', entitled 'A Child's Vision of Governance', is an insightful takedown of some of the failure models of DAOs:
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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':
https://piped.video/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
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
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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':
https://piped.video/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
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
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#Decentraland added the feature to take pictures in world and share as links with rich metadata! 📸
https://reels.decentraland.org/6d3f3279-9a92-4fc5-93c2-0f3a6fcf85cc
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#Decentraland launches Smart Wearables and Portable Experiences ⚡ . They are like standalone apps that follow the user, and are not linked to any particular scene.
https://decentraland.org/blog/announcements/smart-wearables-and-portable-experiences
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This evening, I've been having #fun exploring #decentraland !
I've seen @eibriel posting about It a lot, so I decided to take a look too! :blobaviator:I like It there! I find it to be a mix between #SecondLife and #VRChat! :ablobthinking:
Unfortunately, I've not been able to interact a lot with people, just a quick hey with a person that warned me that my mic was not working, so I fixed it but they went away in no time :ablobnervous:I've used the #webBrowser Brave to explore the land and had little to no problems on #Linux. :linux:
I suggest to everyone to have a look! It's inspiring! A bit empty.... but #inspiring!
I have also been thinking to make some #custom #NFT to wear/sell there, but unsure how and if I really could... Also, lands are veeeeery #expensive! But can be loaned for "cheap" :3
Have you ever explored it? Do you like it? :aphotoblob:
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This evening, I've been having #fun exploring #decentraland !
I've seen @eibriel posting about It a lot, so I decided to take a look too! :blobaviator:I like It there! I find it to be a mix between #SecondLife and #VRChat! :ablobthinking:
Unfortunately, I've not been able to interact a lot with people, just a quick hey with a person that warned me that my mic was not working, so I fixed it but they went away in no time :ablobnervous:I've used the #webBrowser Brave to explore the land and had little to no problems on #Linux. :linux:
I suggest to everyone to have a look! It's inspiring! A bit empty.... but #inspiring!
I have also been thinking to make some #custom #NFT to wear/sell there, but unsure how and if I really could... Also, lands are veeeeery #expensive! But can be loaned for "cheap" :3
Have you ever explored it? Do you like it? :aphotoblob:
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Dropping Monday is our next podcast episode where we interview YouTube Gamer, "Jauwn" - he reviews all the crypto/NFT games. https://youtu.be/bL_HuH_JrLU
#gaming #gamereviews #nft #crypto #gamer #gamereview #epic #AxieInfinity #metaverse #decentraland #ponziScheme #ioradio
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SEC’s Classification of So-Called Crypto Securities Amounts to $98 Billion in Combined Value - Throughout the last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has id... - https://news.bitcoin.com/secs-classification-of-so-called-crypto-securities-amounts-to-98-billion-in-combined-value/ #cryptocurrencymarket #syntheticstocktokens #programmaticsales #marketsandprices #internetcomputer #terrausdclassic #mirrorprotocol #tronsjustinsun #digitalassets #cryptoassets #decentraland
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Metaver.se #Metaverse »Converging #design and #technology, #DearchSpace, #Metancy, and #W3rlds present the inaugural #MetaverseArchitectureBiennale, titled #PresenceoftheFuture. Set amid the surreal virtual realms of #Decentraland and #W3rlds, from 21-24 September.« https://www.designboom.com/architecture/first-metaverse-architecture-biennale-global-meta-architects-virtual-realm-07-14-2023/
