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I have the same question. Lemmy and Mastodon are both public and as of yet, no one was able to tell me what "privacy" actually looks like for data in that context. Other than the fact that Meta will destroy it. It’s public, anyone can access it already.

I‘m so looking forward to this, hopefully won’t be too long until it shows up on PSVR.

I thought long and hard about my top 10 so far and it’s actually quite difficult, there’s more games I’d like to add to it. This year‘s been really great overall.

Apart from Echo VR, whose main action was to get killed in August. It would’ve been my absolute number 1 for basically every year, I used to play competently and made a lot of good friends there.

But apart from that, this is the list I came up with:

1. Dungeons of eternity (Quest)
2. Resident evil 8 (PSVR)
3. Synapse (PSVR)
4. Gran Tourismo 7 (PSVR)
5. Breachers (Quest)
6. VR Skater (PSVR)
7. Arizona Sunshine 2 (Quest)
8. Assassins creed nexus (Quest)
9. Ancient dungeon multiplayer (Quest)
10. Puzzling Places multiplayer (Quest)

I’ve bought every walkabout map on day one except for meow wolf, but it seems like I’ll have to take a look after all

I’ve only played for about an hour so far. The haptics and intro sequences have been really nice, combat feels great (the little that I had). Definitely promising and reception in general seems to be very positive.

Active users went down, though. I don’t think mastodon is a big competitor for Meta, Twitter and TikTok are.

I thought it was already possible, but I guess I’m thinking of blocking communities

It sounds a bit sarcastic, not sure if you mean it that way. One question: what privacy are you talking about with services that are meant to be entirely open? App analytics?

I think the reason why meta wants to federate is this:

• it helps with anticompetitive arguments, because it’s "open" and not controlled by meta alone
• some will refuse to use anything from meta, and threads users being able to communicate with them adds value
• it won’t hurt meta, because the majority will be using their app anyways
• it helps their image

I don’t think they’re doing it to "get more data" or to "take over the fediverse". There’s nothing worth taking over for them currently and since most people don’t care about the fediverse I don’t see it growing much either. Although I’d certainly like it if that were the case.

They can probably get the data already, it’s all openly available. Federating it’s basically all upside and no downside for them, but it’s not exactly the biggest priority to implement it, it‘s going to take some time.

I’m not saying it might not have a negative effect or that they care a lot for what’s currently there. They’ll certainly want to monetize threads sooner or later.

it’s Meta, so who cares?

Most people don’t care if it’s Meta, or what Meta even is. Also, Meta has by far the most VR users, and the Quest 3 is already one of the most used Steam headsets. The Quest line is the most relevant VR hardware out there.

the Zuckersphere is a horrible place

Probably in the future it will be, but not right now. Metas product lifecycle always starts out with being good to their users, which is where we are currently. The enshittification usually comes later. For some aspects (content and standalone) it’s basically the only option. If and when we reach that point there will hopefully be alternatives.

it’s still Vive or nothing

I’d love to have a Steam standalone headset, but it doesn’t exist (yet?) and the Vive is truly outdated by now. Not even bigscreen beyond or the index?

Sry, I‘m still not following. I don’t understand your argument, are you saying they want to federate to gain additional users to grab data from? Because I don’t think that’s going to be a significant amount of people.

Most people don’t care about what makes the fediverse desirable to its current users, all it does is add friction to them and therefore I don’t see it growing much either.

I think the reason why meta wants to federate is this:

• it helps with anticompetitive arguments, because it’s "open" and not controlled by meta alone
• some will refuse to use anything from meta, and threads users being able to communicate with them adds value
• it won’t hurt meta, because the majority will be using their app anyways
• it helps their image

I don’t think they’re doing it to "get more data" or to "take over the fediverse". There’s nothing worth taking over and they can probably get the data anyways, it’s all openly available. So it’s basically all upside and no downside for them.

Maybe I’m not getting something here, but neither Mastodon nor Lemmy are private, you can find everything open for everyone already, so how would federation change something there? Federation doesn’t mean everyone would use their app, so they wouldn’t gain any app usage analytics.

Also I don’t get how your metaphor make sense. The amount of fediverse users is a rounding error next to threads, instagram, WhatsApp and facebook. So there’s not a "lot a tiny things that can add up", only a small amount of tiny things which don’t really add up to anything.