Editing Metaverse (section)

=== Lack of adoption ===
{{As of|2023}}, there has been little adoption of Metaverse technology, with Decentraland, a platform claiming to be the metaverse, reporting that it had 8,000 daily users or fewer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lawler |first=Richard |date=2022-10-13 |title=Decentraland's billion-dollar "metaverse" reportedly had 38 active users in one day |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402418/decentraland-metaverse-empty-38-users-dappradar-wallet-data |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Ed Zitron]] in ''[[Business Insider]]'' and Marc Olinga in ''The Street'' declared the Metaverse a fad that was "dead", having been displaced by [[artificial intelligence]] as the current hot new trend in computing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zitron |first=Ed |author-link=Ed Zitron |title=RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Olinga |first=Marc |date=18 March 2023 |title=Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse |url=https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-quietly-buries-the-metaverse |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=The Street}}</ref>