No, I won't be participating in Metaverse. I don't have Twitter or TikTok and I barely check Facebook anymore.
When I was a kid in the 90s and first came across the internet I thought it was the most wonderful invention in human history. Now I am wondering if it's one of the worst given what it's done to humanity.
Social media is just a place where people can be mean to each other and scream at each other over things like politics without any real consequences. I can't imagine how a Metaverse would be.
So you know, this isn't the first time it's been done. There was a metaverse rolled up by a group called Linden Labs that's still actively in use called "Second Life" and additionally there are metaversal environments such as VR chat which are quite popular among various communities.
Sometimes people use those existing environments to talk about politics, but more often they just use it as a normal chatroom, or as a collaborative space for... Building up the collaborative space.
The major negative elements are actually more often direct conflicts between those who want to make "offensive" art, and have a place for it to be seen and those who wish to censor such activities and discussions, and then a third faction that tends to attach to the "offensives" which represents '*chan' style anarchy, chaos, and let's face it RACISM.
It's surprisingly apolitical except on those lines, on the line of whose art gets censored, and who is just a fucking foul racist agitator.
In short, it's more like the open internet than social media.
The problem with Metaverse as per the thread is the "who" more than the "what", at least in theory.