Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

[404mediaco@mastodon.social]

Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/

[sharif@fosstodon.org]

@404mediaco Not quite, it seems? Still not looking too hot. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/meta-decides-not-to-shut-down-horizon-worlds-on-vr-after-all/

[svines@gts.svines.rodeo]

@404mediaco now do LLMs

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@404mediaco How many hungry people could have been fed with this $80 billion?

[metaadvisor@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco With this level of automation, it feels like we’re heading toward a platform where AI moderates AI… and eventually, only AI content remains. AI moderation has become so aggressive that even people providing real context get banned.

After a ban, there’s no real appeal — most contact channels are gone. In the EU, some efforts try to address this, but users still don’t know why they were banned.

And honestly — who wants to live in a virtual world like that? Remember Second Life?

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@404mediaco

Virtual reality, like 3D, was never going to be much more than a gimmick, easily tossed aside, especially if it was underwhelming and cost money. Even the cyberpunks didn't see VR as more than a metaphor for an unrealizable future of corporate dominance, and "ICE" was security software, not a bunch of goons IRL.

[nategullion@mastodon.art]

@FediThing @404mediaco executives pay

[nategullion@mastodon.art]

@FediThing @404mediaco "Springtime for Hitler in the Metaverse"

[stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz]

@404mediaco

The real question is whether with the crapware version dying there's space for a community version, even a fedi version?

#fedi

[engel@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco do AI next