[angellxr]

Appreciate their contributions to the metaverse, but they'll never build "The Metaverse," or "A Metaverse." They definitely will never own the Metaverse.

The metaverse is open, collaborative, privacy focused, and free by default. It should be a public good. The walled gardens, and efforts to control are really part of the metaverse, rather than the entire metaverse itself.

There are so many other orgs and people working hard on ensuring that it can't be owned. They can hire 100,000 more people, and they still can't own it. It's bigger than that.

[buzzert]

I relate with the platitude, but who is actually working on a free/decentralized metaverse right now? This just seems like something hackers are completely uninterested in, so the corporations will fill the void.

This isn't quite like the Internet in the early days, which was born free and decentralized because it was invented by highly motivated hackers.