Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I’ve never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.

There’s a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.

Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there’s a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It’s similar to how we went from “machine learning” to “AI”.

It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant “metaverse” is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.