Honest question. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware how unlikable Meta is and there are plenty of valid criticisms.
But it feels like everything Quest related gets downvoted even in here and this is the Quest community. It’s certainly not big enough to show up on the hot page.
I’d love to have a proper Quest alternative, but at least on standalone it’s currently the best (if not only valid) option. I know, Pico, but I don’t think Bytedance is the savior here.
The issue is you admit the company behind the product is bad, but you still have interest in the product.
Not ideal, I know. But both of these things can be true at the same time. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Meta, I have many myself. But I also like VR and at least currently as I see it, Quest is basically the only option.
The question I’m having is why people who dislike both Meta and Quest are following c/metaquest, just to downvote everything and leave snarky comments. How is that helping anything? All that does is repel people that don’t really care about what Meta does or has done. And let’s be honest, 90% probably don’t even know that Meta == Facebook, let alone care about it. It’s pretty much beating this community to death and it already only has a handful of people that are actually active.
For people building their own open source headsets that would rather loose both legs than use a product by Meta, this community is probably not for them, no offense.
If you have a different point of view on something, I’m happy to talk about it. But these comments are often not even related to the post, just a creative way of bashing Meta that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.