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re: What exactly is the goal of Meta?
Posted on 4/28/22 at 1:52 pm to tigersfan1989
Posted on 4/28/22 at 1:52 pm to tigersfan1989
To collect and utilize/monetize every scrap of personal data about you in existence. Read Josh Hawley’s (short) book Tyranny of Big Tech - Covers FB, Google and others
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 1:57 pm
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Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:02 pm to tigersfan1989
“Live in your pod. Eat the bugs. Drink Soylent. Take your mandatory ssri smoothie…”
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:06 pm to tigersfan1989
They are emulating Google's model. Google needed to organize all their entities into one parent company "Alphabet"
FB now holds a number of tech properties and needed to go the same route
FB now holds a number of tech properties and needed to go the same route
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:06 pm to tigersfan1989
An escape from the dullness of life for people. People just have too much time than they know what to do with. Metaverse will be people staring into smartphones on steroid.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:07 pm to JDPndahizzy
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Zuck wants his own currency and payment methods.
I've actually been really surprised one of these major corporations has not already tried their hand in launching crypto
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:09 pm to Tigeralum2008
Because the crypto world won't adopt them. It goes against everything the majority of large crypto holders support.
And those companies know it
And those companies know it
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:10 pm to DmitriKaramazov
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Meanwhile, the real world gets fatter
On the contrary, you can partner the metaverse with the new Eli Lilly drug that just showed a 21% reduction in weight in a stage 3 clinical trial.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:11 pm to keakar
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FB started out as the original tinder for college dating then it became a way for everyone to socialize then it became a way to control speech and be a political tool now meta is the Globalist NWO version of controlled speech and group think
It’s extremely powerful. If the tech spreads, we may not even have to go in countries to throw coups anymore.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 4:12 pm to JDPndahizzy
you can see it right now. the link below is to an application that serves video content similar to youtube. the first thing you'll notice is there are no advertisements. monetization is not reliant on collecting user data and selling ads. the second thing you'll notice is you do not give any personal information to set up an account. all you need is a yubikey. completely anon. and the content is served and stored 100% on blockchain. encrypted, immutable, uncensored. and it is not reliant on AWS, google, microsoft, etc. and the cost of hosting is cheaper than any competitor. just check the url; its a smart contract address so you believe me. most of the content is geek in nature right now. think early internet of the 90s. its the wild west. but this is just one example. there are 100s of apps similar to this. and 1000s more coming. and it will only take one to break through to normies. then the drip will turn into a tsunami.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:24 pm to tigersfan1989
Whatever that guy was going for in “Ready Player One” is what the lizard man wants to do.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:36 pm to WG_Dawg
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: I thought you meant the metaverse
Well that's the reason FB changed their name to Meta, that's the direction they are going.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:49 pm to justsomedude
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and the content is served and stored 100% on blockchain. encrypted, immutable, uncensored. and it is not reliant on AWS, google, microsoft, etc. and the cost of hosting is cheaper than any competitor.
Even simple NFT's don't store their media on blockchain, they simply point to where the media is stored on a server.
From nftexplained.info
"The actual content of the NFT, such as a piece of art, is not typically stored on the blockchain.
The reason why the content (such as a JPG, MP3, or Gif) of the smart contract associated with the actual NFT is stored on the web and not the blockchain is because of the size and cost.
Typically, just the web address (of the location in which the NFT’s information is stored) is kept on the blockchain. This location pointing to where the NFT is stored is kept on the blockchain and can’t be tampered. This makes the blockchain extremely reliable.
If all media pertaining to the smart contract of the NFT was kept on the blockchain it would take up an enormous amount of space and therefore be quite computationally expensive. For this reason, it’s important to mint NFTs on reliable marketplaces as the actual media for the NFT is likely stored by the firm which runs the marketplace."
The marketplace that stores your media does so on a server they control either in-house or on AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. If OpenSea, for example, goes tits up there goes your NFT like any other lost file. Moxie Marlinspike's NFT dev experiment is worth reading.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:51 pm to tigersfan1989
Hit the ball far and hard
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:52 pm to Day Wisher
NFTs R tHe FuTuRe!
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:54 pm to DmitriKaramazov
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To create a comprehensive online world where people live and interact exclusively through virtual avatars. Meanwhile, the real world gets fatter and less intelligent.
This
Think "Ready Player One" but hopefully less dystopian
Posted on 4/28/22 at 6:00 pm to tigersfan1989
I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great that I literally wanted a second one. In my second life I was also a paper salesman and I was also named Dwight. Absolutely everything was the same. Except I could fly.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 6:00 pm to Day Wisher
That is true for a great many projects. Most seem to be stored in AWS and the like.
Alternatively, there's IPFS, which is a decentralized and open source file hosting protocol that's not crypto
There's also now Arweave, which is a blockchain that's optimized for storage, and it's the next best thing to storing data on-chain
Finally, there are projects that are being very creative to store images on chain. It costs nothing to read data from a block chain, so these projects have it set so when an NFT marketplace reads the NFT metadata, it's generated on demand. This is accomplished a multitude of ways, and is a very quickly evolving space. The best projects actually have developed entire rendering engines in the smart contract. Furballs is a great example of this. They do that and its also a 100% on-chain game.
Alternatively, there's IPFS, which is a decentralized and open source file hosting protocol that's not crypto
There's also now Arweave, which is a blockchain that's optimized for storage, and it's the next best thing to storing data on-chain
Finally, there are projects that are being very creative to store images on chain. It costs nothing to read data from a block chain, so these projects have it set so when an NFT marketplace reads the NFT metadata, it's generated on demand. This is accomplished a multitude of ways, and is a very quickly evolving space. The best projects actually have developed entire rendering engines in the smart contract. Furballs is a great example of this. They do that and its also a 100% on-chain game.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 6:13 pm to Hulkklogan
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That is true for a great many projects. Most seem to be stored in AWS and the like.
Which is the point I was trying to make as the original poster seemed to imply that recreating YouTube scale with decentralized storage was a solved problem.
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The best projects actually have developed entire rendering engines in the smart contract.
Very cool. Mind sharing a name or two?
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and is a very quickly evolving space.
To say the least. It's nuts.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 6:15 pm to Day Wisher
Yeah I just updated my post.
Furballs is the first one, or one of the first.
The contract that handles rendering
Furballs is the first one, or one of the first.
The contract that handles rendering
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 6:35 pm to notsince98
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Ready Player One
Great film and exactly what they are hoping for.
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