What the metaverse can learn from r/place
If you were watching reddit this April fools, you should have seen the return of the place.
It’s a wonderful idea
Each reddit user can place a single-coloured pixel anywhere they choose once every 5 mins in a predetermined whiteboard space
It becomes a mirror of global society in many ways
Individually people don’t have much influence or power but by banding together into groups they can begin to create images a single pixel at a time.
Anyone can make anything if they can form a big enough movement.
Then these groups solidify and as they expand, they get more power. And as a mirror to real life they begin to create treaties between neighbouring projects. I noticed little hearts between projects indicating some kind of truce.
Then people start creating weapons. Well scripts people can load to automate the placing of the correct pixels in the correct place. More ambitious projects can form.
The entire place started to look like the second life map, people hanging flags to indicate this is where I belong.
Then corruption creeps in. People start making alt accounts to get more than 1 pixel every 5 mins
They make alts and proxies and weaponize their efforts.
Then Reddit itself is caught censoring parts of the image and using a set of rules that were never agreed.
We are all created equally, just some are more equal than others.
Back to the point
A metaverse needs to start small and build out only when its full
All societies are ultimately corrupt and might appears to be right in the end.
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