Category: Deep Thoughts

How Feedback Loops & Interest Algorithms Hurt Metaverse Platforms (Comment of the Week)

March 18, 2025

Commenting on my post about the failure of Meta to grow Horizon Worlds, longtime reader/veteran technologist Martin K. offers a big picture view impacting multiple metaverse platforms, relating it to recent trends in US society. It helps explain, for example, why Second Life merchandise seems to be 80% fashion/home decor-related, and why VRChat seems largely…
Metaverse Artist AM Radio on Second Life as the First “Giga-Artwork”

August 8, 2023

Image via AM Radio's Flickr Jeff "AM Radio" Berg was watching my recent interview with Philip Rosedale, and AM Radio being AM Radio, sent me this pretty profound thought: I wonder if what he created, when considered as a whole, is the first giga-artwork. An artwork so large it has an economy. An artwork as…
How To Create a Reddit-Style Upvote/Downvote Karma System for Virtual Worlds That Can’t Be Abused (Too Much)

August 26, 2020

Writing about Second Life-based drama last week, many readers didn't like my suggestion that a Reddit-like upvote/downvote-driven Karma system would work relatively well to improve the user community. Sample: The karma system would literally be used as a tool to create an even more toxic locale on any type of forums, Reddit or non-Reddit and…

How Feedback Loops & Interest Algorithms Hurt Metaverse Platforms (Comment of the Week)