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There’s a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.
There’s a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.
Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there’s a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/
Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It's similar to how we went from "machine learning" to "AI".
It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant "metaverse" is VR Chat.
The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.
Oh yeah if you read the scifi written during that time it's just a big male fantasy of easy access to loose women.
Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I’ve never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.