Mastodawn

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

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madison taylor Dec 7

@0xabad1dea i'd like to clarify the nature of the stupidity. the idea in principle isn't fundamentally stupid because 3D virtual worlds have no promise, after all: one can imagine much promise, fantastical sights and sounds and movement, grand architecture, adventures — flying! space! dragons! dungeons! and one can imagine all forma of self-expression, avatars human and inhuman! one can imagine anything, boulded only by the limits of human perception.

perhaps delivering this is hard. perhaps it is too broad and unconstrained and the realm would only thrive with limitations, a unifying vision. perhaps there would be intractable social moderation troubles and abuse. perhaps these barriers are insurmountable or the tech immature. but the concept has potential.

no, the really most stupidest thing is that facebmeta looked at all this potential and imagined ...

checks

generic corporate avatars
sitting at a conference table
attending a meeting

(and yes, "sitting" is being quite generous to the legless...)

Stanislav Ochotnický Dec 8

@tomoyo @0xabad1dea saddest part about that meeting screenshot is that its a featureless office space instead of some cool rainforest or maybe a big tree house or whatever. how corrupt does your mind have to be to want to be in this environment if you could be anywhere?