I still can't believe that Facebook trademarked a prefix. (I'm not surprised they tried; but surely they should have failed.) The metaverse will succeed if it

I still can't believe that Facebook trademarked a prefix. (I'm not surprised they tried; but surely they should have failed.) The metaverse will succeed if it breaks free of the walled gardens; a federated distributed internet - controlled by the users. Otherwise the users will continue to be the product, eating an illusion of freedom that only ever tells them what they want to hear and think they already know.