There's a reason why Second Life didn't become the way to use the internet in the 90s
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There's a reason why Second Life didn't become the way to use the internet in the 90s
There's literally better tech you could invest in from the 1990s.
Multicast for one thing.
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(roll m3tti)replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict imho the most immersive world where people really wanted to stick around for more than 10 years was and is world of warcraft. For myself i didn't played it but it seems that it is the most popular metaverse and guess what i don't think people want that in their lives. We had a workadventure server once it was fun but really soon became abandoned. And even video calls are most of the time just crap. Why not only call. If you want to see people go out or get to the office if it is really necessary. But i doubt it
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@m3tti @onepict WoW also highlights a big thing with virtual worlds, it's never the design as much as the people that keep you interested.
I left WoW fully a few years back because everyone I liked playing the game with had stopped playing. And various design choices were partly to blame but also, people had more compelling stuff to do outside the game so they stopped.
And, I definitely liked myself better when I was more immersed in the physical world so there's that too.
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Mallory 🏳️⚧️:freebsd_logo:replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict “It will give users the feeling of being in an actual museum”
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Mallory 🏳️⚧️:freebsd_logo: last edited by [email protected]
@mallory The best one for me was world chat . Although that wasn't really that immersive
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Brian Nisbetreplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict Ah, multicast! But also, did Meta write that EU doc?
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Brian Nisbet last edited by
@natural20 well I am quite invested in multicast.
Librecast on building the next-generation internet: “The code we create and the tools we use can help or harm humanity. We write our political values into our code”
This month we speak to Esther Payne, community manager and privacy advocate at Librecast. The organisation develops free and open-source (FOSS) software to enable multicast transmitting data to groups simultaneously without depending on a centralised structure.
Association for Progressive Communications (www.apc.org)
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Brian Nisbetreplied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict Spent a lot of time working with it back when I was still a network engineer. Sadly the use cases we had never really got anywhere.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Brian Nisbet last edited by
@natural20 We've some thoughts. Although we've still a lot to do @librecast .
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Brian Nisbet last edited by
@natural20 I remember that some French folks had some really interesting use cases as well which @OlivierAuber pointed me at.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Brian Nisbet last edited by
@natural20 so what use cases were you looking at?