@Johannes Ernst "The Metaverse" as in new 3-D virtual world projects of the 2020s in general?

Or "The Metaverse" as in...

"Metaverse" and "The Metaverse" are registered trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. All rights reserved.

...as in "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" as in "Facebook's Metaverse" as in "Meta's Metaverse" as in Horizons?

Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:02:29 +0100

Stop calling it "The Metaverse" already!

Can everyone please with a cherry on top stop referring to Meta's virtual worlds as "the Metaverse"?

They're called "Horizons"!

Zuckerberg did not invent the Metaverse. Zuckerberg did not even invent the term; Neal Stephenson did in 1991. A Second Life in-world expo in the year 2007 was called "Metaverse". And the OpenSim community has been using the word "Metaverse" on a daily base down to grid names before 2010, too.

Thanks from someone who has been in OpenSim and thus known and used the term "Metaverse" in 2020 already in behalf of everyone in Second Life, OpenSim and all other virtual worlds that already existed before 2022.

P.S.: Second Life did not shut down in 2008 nor in 2009 either.

#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost

Oh, and by the way, a finding of mine for those who still think Zuck was the first to slap "Metaverse" on an actual real 3-D world:

Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:13:36 +0100

"Metaverse". Used in OpenSim since 2007.

Something for those who think Mark Zuckerberg has invented the term "Metaverse" in 2021.

OSgrid, the oldest OpenSimulator grid (est. 2007), is referring to itself as "The Open Source Metaverse". Guess what? It has taken over that slogan from OpenSim itself, and OpenSim has described itself as such in 2007 already.

Metropolis, the first German grid (est. 2008), boldly used the full name "Metropolis Metaversum" until it was officially shut down in summer 2022. It already did so as early as 2008.

Since I started out in Metropolis on April 30th, 2020, I was in something called Metaverse almost a year and a half before Zuckerberg used that term.

Another fun fact: The virtual worlds/virtual reality news site Hypergrid Business has named its OpenSim category "Metaverse" as early as 2010.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Metropolis #OSgrid

For the record: Yes, I know it was Neal Stephenson who coined that term in 1991 already.

#Meta #Horizons #HorizonWorlds #HorizonWorldsIsNotTheMetaverse #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost

tl;dr: Must add lots of hashtags because some people use them for CW text filters, some people only do that for CW, others may want to find my stuff, and yet others want to hide my stuff with filters.

@The Eddie Show   @the roamer Guilty as charged. I regularly use a lot of hashtags. But I always put them all at the end of the post unless I'm talking about certain hashtags.

I actually have to. I know that not everyone in the Fediverse is using Mastodon 4.x like it's still Mastodon 3.x or older. Some Fediverse users use text filters to automatically generate content warnings. Some prefer it.

Here on Hubzilla, what Mastodon perceives as a content warning field is actually a summary field. Content warnings are optionally automatically generated by a text filter. All this has been part of Hubzilla and its culture since its first release in 2015, a year before Mastodon was launched. In fact, Mastodon's content warning field has actually been StatusNet's summary field since 2008.

When I write a post, I always give out content warnings two-fold: in the summary field so that those used to Mastodon 3.x and older have their content warnings and as hashtags so that those who use text filters have their content warnings automatically generated.

When I write a comment right now, I can't write a Mastodon-style content warning. Hubzilla doesn't have Mastodon's Twitter-like many-posts thread model. Hubzilla has a one-post-many-comments model like Facebook, Tumblr or blogs. And why would you want to put a summary on a blog comment?! That's why Hubzilla doesn't have a "content warning field" for comments. That's why I can't write Mastodon-style content warnings for replies. Hashtags are my only way of flagging sensitive content in replies.

I take content warnings seriously. And I post a whole lot of potentially sensitive or triggering content.

This starts with long posts. Many Mastodon users don't want to see posts with more than 500 characters. Hubzilla doesn't have a character limit at all, and it's extremely hard for me to stay under 500 characters. At least some Mastodon users demand all posts with over 500 characters have a content warning. So whenever I exceed 500 characters, I add "(CW:) long (n characters)" to the Mastodon-style content warning and the four hashtags #Long, #LongPost, #CWLong and #CWLongPost to the end of the post because I can't know who uses what for their filters.

Then there are those who don't want to read about the Fediverse on Mastodon. It's too technical for them or I don't know what. So whenever I write about the Fediverse, I add "(CW:) Fediverse meta" and often also "non-Mastodon Fediverse meta" to warn those who don't want to read about the Fediverse not only being Mastodon. In addition, I add the hashtags #FediMeta, #FediverseMeta, #CWFediMeta and #CWFediverseMeta for those who use filters.

If I explain something Fediverse-related without having been asked to do so, not even indirectly, I add "(CW:) Fedisplaining" and the hashtags #Fedisplaining and #CWFedisplaining.

If I write about content warnings, I add "(CW:) content warning meta" and the hashtag #CWMeta.

If I could write a summary/Mastodon-style content warning for this, I'd write, "I need hashtags not only to cover the topics I write about, but also to trigger text filters which some people use for automated content warnings; CW: long (almost 6,400 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, Fedisplaining, content warning meta, hashtag meta, doing things differently from the standard Mastodon way in the Fediverse".

Similarly, all my other content warnings are always present as hashtags and in (start) posts as Mastodon-style content warnings as well.

Also, of course, I have to indicate what I write about so that my posts can be found by those who might be interested in the topic and filtered by those who aren't. And this regularly requires multiple hashtags.

The primary topic of this Hubzilla channel is 3-D virtual worlds, especially those based on OpenSimulator. In order to make such posts discoverable, I add the hashtag #OpenSimulator. But there's also the short-hand OpenSim which is used even more often, so I also have to add the hashtag #OpenSim. If my post is partly or entirely about Second Life, I add #SecondLife.

In addition, I need more general hashtags. One is #Metaverse. No, this term wasn't invented by Zuckerberg in 2022. The OpenSim community has used it a lot before 2010, maybe as early as 2008 or even 2007. And it was the name of a Second Life conference in 2007. The other one is #VirtualWorlds.

If I write about a special topic within this topic, e.g. if I mention a certain grid or an event, I add that as a hashtag. Larger events in OpenSim usually have their official hashtags for commercial social media, and I use them here. And so forth.

The secondary topic of this channel has become the Fediverse itself. As I've written above, this alone requires four hashtags by default even without going over 500 characters.

If it's somewhat about the Fediverse as a whole or in general, I add #Fediverse. If it touches one or multiple certain projects, I tag them all. And I know a lot of Fediverse projects.

If a post explains that the Fediverse extends beyond Mastodon to an actual or imaginary audience that thinks otherwise, my go-to hashtags, all of which have existed before, are #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse, #NotOnlyMastodon and most recently #FediverseIsNotMastodon.

Certain details such as protocols, OpenWebAuth or nomadic identity require their own hashtags.

I can never know who might be searching for what, especially if I'm about to provide exactly what they're looking for. And I can also never know who's tired of reading what, and who has set up a hashtag filter to get rid of that kind of content.

As far as alt-text is concerned: I never skip the image description when I post an image, not even when I link to one. And I write the longest and most detailed image descriptions in the whole Fediverse.

There are only two exceptions. One are my profile picture (Mastodon: "avatar") and my channel picture (Mastodon: "banner"). There are no adequate means for me to describe them in such a way that the descriptions can easily be associated with the images. And I'd need a whole lot of character space for that. The other one are link preview images automatically generated by Mastodon because I can never know beforehand which image Mastodon will place there, if any.