owlboy

@owlboy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse.

  If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol. Thats the thing. Adults talk shit about it. But it’s mostly the younger generations that are active in VR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol what? I’ve been using VRChat for almost 10 years and I’ve seen maybe 4-5 people with avatars that smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not have guessed that reply guys replying to really popular accounts would ever check if their reply is a duplicate.

  I didn’t catch that this is why Alec stopped posting there. I assumed he was just being sensitive to being a public figure in general.

  When you make a channel that is filled with “well actually” and “turns out.” You should expect your audience is into doing the same.

  The federation issues of replies/boosts/hearts/etc are still a big bummer, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They want an algorithm.

  As much as people mock it, or know it’s the source of why social media optimizes for outrage and other unhealthy behaviors, the algorithm is what they are missing on Mastodon.

  As someone who always used third party Twitter apps, and never directly saw the algorithm in my timeline, mastodon feels like Twitter always did.