Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye

Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  … What?

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The parent company changed their name to Meta because they were “focusing on the metaverse.” It’s still called Meta despite no a single person ever using their shitty second life oculus clone.

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    • wetsoggybread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They changed their name to meta because they wanted to expand to more than just Facebook.com, pretty sure it was shortly after they bought instagram

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      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You are dead wrong. They bought Instagram like a decade ago. They changed the name like 3 or 4 years ago if that, and they picked Meta because they were all in on the metaverse

        www.nytimes.com/…/facebook-meta-name-change.html

        …nytimes.com/…/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-bill…

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes I know that, I don’t understand what the relevance is? Why would they change their name back?

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