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   Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 (queermatters@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 14:02:48 JST Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉

   You know, I was thinking about #VRChat the other day and how cool it is... But also what a bummer it is that such a culturally significant online space is in the hands of greedy corporate capitalists who can ultimately nuke those community spaces in seconds.

   This is where I wish there was more resources for FOSS projects aiming to replace VRChat.

   Though I also recognise that its complicated, because server infrastructure poses a HUGE issue here. But then, #federation is still a good answer.

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     Cube Drone (cube_drone@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 14:02:50 JST Cube Drone

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     @QueerMatters fun story, that’s how early VRChat competitor High Fidelity worked: a FOSS model led by a “foundation”, federated across the internet. It seemed like it could never quite break 10-50 CCU, and they ran out of money after a while and closed up shop.

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     Cube Drone (cube_drone@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 14:02:52 JST Cube Drone

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     @QueerMatters their monetization model, unfortunately, depended really heavily on blockchain ownership of trivially cloneable 3D assets - essentially “VRChat but every upload is a NFT but you can copy it with zero effort” - which is so obviously horseshit that I can barely believe they spent so much effort on it

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     Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 (queermatters@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 14:02:57 JST Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉

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     @cube_drone I heard about this!!! Its so fucking tragic that the core of a good idea was ruined by cryptobro bullshit. Ugh!!!