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The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse

Folding Ideas

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse

Dan Olson of Folding Ideas spends months in the virtual world Decentraland and delivers a long critique of the metaverse, NFTs and DAOs, and why virtual worlds fail as places.

Regarded as the definitive takedown of the metaverse hype and the Decentraland ecosystem.

10 Hacker News mentions · 2023–2025

Topics

  • VR, AR & spatial computing
  • Gaming culture & analysis
  • Cryptography

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