@Stewart @Chris Trottier Originally, in mainstream media, #Metaverse referred to Zuckerberg's #HorizonWorlds because nobody except Neal Stephenson, his readers, the #OpenSimulator community and a select few others had heard that word before. For some media outlets, it still does.

#Web30 referred to what would follow on the heels of "Facebook's Metaverse" using blockchains, cryptocurrencies and NFTs as something allegedly essential and inevitable in the creation and operation of #VirtualWorlds. In other, fewer words: get-rich-quick schemes. Probably not few of them went under in the crypto crash, especially those that relied on existing currencies.

Unfortunately, neither mainstream media nor tech media nor their audience could hear the #SecondLife and #OpenSim users laugh. Since people believe the former shut down before spring 2009, and almost nobody has ever heard of the latter, the cryptobros can continue implying that blockchain, crypto and NFTs are absolute necessities for virtual worlds.

@yourfootmyface @atomicpoet @fediversenews they've already poisoned it, they can keep it