As if, facebook and twitter would not have banned him if he used their platform?

They could start by not collaborating with autocratic regimes and doing their bidding. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-...

Contrary to popular press, the metaverse wasn't invented by Zuck in october 2021. Opensimulator is the most popular open metaverse since 10 years and more.

The biggest world has 6 users in it. It doesn't seem popular to me compared to something like VRChat.

vrchat is not open source. opensimulator is not VR, nor a chat

It may not be open source, but it is open. It's not some proprietary software only used in a single company.

I 'm not familiar, but can i run the server on my own machine to make sure that they won't be deleting / spying on it ?

It is NOT open, it's heavily moderated. If your avatar's or worlds are not PG-13, they will not be approved. Unless they combine zoophilia with pedophilia... then they get a pass somehow.

That one is Maria Korolov's blog where she blogs more about facebook and oculus these days (with obvious paid guest posts that are ads). Her grid list s manually crafted and very outdated. Curious why you didn't know of opensimworld , it exists for more than 5 years and its teleporters are everywhere. She has even embedded the opensimworld twitter feed in her front page.

Yes, but China only became rich enough that lots of wealthy young Chinese could be buying iPhones recently. I do not think it would be unreasonable to make the same bet on India being a decade or two behind.

Its not automatic. China took decades of policy and benefited from periods of global growth. India has different politics

" benefited from periods of global growth" -> China had incredible post-2008 growth, that is a large part of why there are so many people buying iPhones.

> India has different politics

What do you mean? It's more inequitable than China and has more political capture by private actors, but I don't see why the same couldn't occur in India.

While it might have been true at one time, this is not true anymore. A lot of their products are at price points that are not luxury.

There is, of course. Government build ports, airports, customs etc. This is part of digital infrastructure (until the day comes that stores are no longer needed).

This but unironically

No they do not

I dont think people catch the virus through contaminated surfaces. It s almost always airborne transmission

All those cross-border trucks have drivers, just like the ships importing stuff into New Zealand have crew. Unlike ships, the trucks don't just stop at the border and unload - they go on to destinations within the country, use trucking facilities along the route, etc. It's the people that're the main risk rather than the goods they carry. (Though when trying to eliminate the virus altogether even rare events can be a problem. There's some evidence that Covid may have spread to a NZ quarantine hotel worker via a contaminated surface and nearly escaped into the community. Obviously, the bigger the country the more likely rare events are to occur too.)