The decent(ralized) metaverse

January 14, 2021

This was posted to Mastodon on 30/12/2020

The metaverse is here: an immersive Web full of social virtual and augmented reality experiences. However, mega-corporations want to lock it down and wall it up to make another addictive, toxic ad-selling platform. We’re taking it in a different direction because we dream of a democratized new era of the Web where creators own their content, users own their data, and no single entity exhibits undue influence on the community as a whole.

We need to build web services free of tracking, free of ads, or other corporate nonsense, and respect user freedom and human right to privacy.