Well lets say we actually think about what exactly the metaverse entails. Is this just the name we are going to use to describe the new zuckerberg bullshit, or is it the blanket term for what may be web3 or even web4 at some point in the future?
I see a lot of people talk about the metaverse as if it is separate from the modern internet, like what we have now will become totally obsolete. like the metaverse is a new different entity. I dont think so. what is more sensible is that the metaverse will be the natural extension of the trends we see now. it may start off relatively secluded but it will eventually meld into the internet, it will fold over as just another facet, and most likely be the primary way a majority of people will be using and spending/absolutely wasting their precious resource known as time while on the internet.
the concept of the metaverse relies on creating relatively seemless transitions between VR spaces. to me, that seems like the only way to get this thing off the ground and being used by a large number of consoomers. as was mentioned before in this thread, its like a bunch of interconnected video games. it should not be all that dissimilar to clicking on links via a browser today. so in that way, it will have to be about as open as the internet is. perhaps we see different meta browsers popping up. corporate versions will come and they will obviously be very sterile and normie tier useless dopamine suppliers, but you'll also have a niche crowd of people hooking up there own metaworlds to the metaverse and these VR servers will be pretty similar to websites. you'll have hidden gems, and lots of surface level shit stinking up the place. but you can be happy chillin in vr with your homies in a nice and shiny agora coffee shop in the neat future.
realistically you probably wont have just one single avatar to represent you, just as we dont today, but rather you'll have a collection of avatars and accounts that some may choose to interconnect in a similar fashion that is done today by linking all of your overabundance of various gay social media sites.
basically, I see the concept as making the web into a giant collection of video games all hooked together in a similar manner as the internet is now. so, for the most part, what this means is that the modern understanding of applications will be fundamentally altered to fit this new streamlined use.
crypto shit and nft's, as retarded as they are, will continue to grow and become pretty major assets to this new iteration on the internet. but I dont think we'll see a true death of the more traditional website either. there will still be wikis, (fake) news sites, video sites, and everything else that is out there now. that market wont ever completely go away I genuinely believe.
realistically, social media is probably going to be what changes the most, which is why zuck is trying to hop on the train now. he can see this pretty clearly. his highly evolved reptillian brain is warning him of the eminent danger to his career. the social aspects of the web will become predominantly taken up by these VR spaces. In many ways they already are as a majority of socializing online happens in online video games anyway rather than social media, its just this will blur the lines between the two even more so. and with these lines blurred, all the big modern social media will either have to adapt or fall to the wayside, because its pretty clear videogames themselves arent going to have to fundamentally change to adapt to this new market. they are the new market (even though games arent new this application of them certainly is).
but just because the net isnt going to be outright replaced by the metaverse, doesmt mean this wont invite all sorts of new and exciting social issues on our death march towards eventual and total societal collapse lmao. will the lines between the offline world and the wired become so distorted that eventually we wont be able to tell the difference? or at the very least we will willfully ignore the differences and accept our hellscape with open arms? sounds like science fiction but I could see it playing out that way while they pump us full of chemicals to make us allergic to beef and scan our brainwaves to determine the best ads to play for us while hooked to the metaverse.
super psyop tinfoil hat time, but if they wanted to "kill" the current internet with some kind of a new widespread virus, essentially a new global pandemic but this time happening on the grid, then they could rush in with several great excuses to regulate and restructure things, and at that point the metaverse could truly be a dystopian nightmare. like,
more so than it already probably will be just naturally by virtue of its mere existence.
anyway, those are my crazy thoughts on this fledgling little hot topic, we'll have to see how this whole thing pand out or if the metaverse is memory holed in the coming years as the cycle of swill is shoveled down our collective gullets.
adios, cowbitch.
