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davel@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 days ago

Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

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Meta shuts down Metaverse after $80 billion loss, ends Horizon Worlds era

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davel@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 days ago
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    Hilarious that this company is now named after a failed product. It would be like if Ford changed it’s name to Pinto.

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      Haha. I will remember that.

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    Can’t believe they really rebranded around this shit when we all knew it was a nonsense non-concept five years ago, lmao

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      This should be taught in MBA and finance classes for how Bros get caught up in a hype cycle and how it’s all bullshit

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        they don’t learn either cause they dove head first into AI right after.

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      well we need to remember they changed their name to meta after zucc went to the senate due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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    motherfuckers could probably have ended hunger in their country for that kind of money.

    that’s how much of a piece of shit this pedophile nazi is.

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      I think that would end all poverty in the entire world

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    They lose $80B and are still in business? That’s insane.

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      Gotta pad that balance sheet with losses. Can’t be paying taxes if you can write off speculative ventures that just might pay off fund other misadventures.

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      Not only that, their company is worth over $500B more than it was when they rebranded as Meta. They were valued around $1T at the time and around $1.5T today. So they have completely failed to accomplish anything of value or substance, anything that improves life for anybody, or anything at all related to their entire metaverse concept in that time, and yet the market has deemed that they should continue to skyrocket in value.

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        Which is why they do it. Stock markets don’t like idle money. For all they wasted here they made it back anyway. They’ll do it again with some other bullshit too.

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      Iirc zuck bankrolled most of it himself

    • TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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      Also, there are still people dying of hunger.

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    They could have cured homelessness 4x over. But instead we got crappy little Zuck-like avatars and an ecosystem nobody ever asked for or wanted.

    Fuck this world man.

    • EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The world is okay, it’s billionaires and stupidity that’s the problem

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      Yes, but have you considered that you can simply buy a house on the Metaverse?

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    For everyone who never tried it, they had honest to god paid employees in Horizon Worlds to help players get oriented. I cannot imagine a worse job.

    The one I ran into was standing in front of some “game” experience that was like…jumping on tiles or some shit.

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    Not only was the entire project thing a completely repulsive, uncanny mess, but also they could’ve just bought roblox for half that amount which is effectively the closest thing to a “metaverse” but ig zuck ego wouldn’t allow that

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    Wankers. Shut the whole company down

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    Buying real estate in the Metaverse used to be compared to buying land on the moon. But Zuck can’t turn off the moon, so it’s arguably a better investment.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I tried to tell him.

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      He could have paid you $40B for that advice and still be better off.

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    But I thought the whole line was “hOrIzOn WoRlDs iSnt the MeTaVeRsE.”

    Followed by no explanation of what the metaverse is.

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      Finally it can be explained: 1) Dig a ditch, 2) Dump in $80B, 3) Light it on fire.

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        You didn’t slap the acronym AI anywhere on that, you’d only be able to burn 10B through your method.

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          1a) Buy $80B in crypto.
          1b) Sell the crypto for $50B.

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            Wait. But how will we starve the browns?

            • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Of course by jacking up the energy and water prices, Watson!

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    remember 6 years ago when everyone was saying ‘learn to code’?

    now what?

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      Back to physical hardware, installation, troubleshooting. Been doing that as my focus for years. I’m so busy I turn down work.

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        yeah looks like this is the way now, people are not buying new hardware

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          They are. Just at the Enterprise and business level.

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      Go to a trade school

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    16k souls about to lay for his continued mistakes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html

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      There really should be consequences for top leadership when even 1% of the company has to go. I’m a businessperson. When you lay off a bunch of people it’s not because you suddenly discovered smarter ways to work in your industry.

      95% of the time, It’s because you planned poorly. 5% of the time, events that could not have been planned for derail things.

      If the workers have to suffer consequences for the organization to survive, fine. Take out the leadership who sent the company down the tubes with their orders in the first place.

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        but unfortunately mark has complete control and his board has no power

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        100% agreed

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    And now they’re not shutting it down after all. :D

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      lol wtf

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      bummer

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    ahh the schadenfreude… 😈

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