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It's known all across the Fediverse, except for absolute newbies, that the two creators and maintainers of Lemmy are, to put it mildly, communists. They don't even try to hide it. In fact, they're very proud of it. All they deny is that they support atrocities against human rights upon communist...

Truth be told, I was talking about OpenSim in-world communities rather than about forums. Now, since I was talking about OpenSim and only OpenSim the whole time, allow me to elaborate: There are "freebie sims" on the Hypergrid that are chock-full of content illegally ripped from Second Life...

Then let me tell you that while Lemmy is functionally similar to Reddit, it's as un-Corporate America as it ever comes. It's Free, Libre, Open-Source Software. It's decentralised with countless independent, non-commercial instances rather than one corporate silo. And the two maintainers are one...

Seems to be dead now. The domain can't even be pinged.

Well, it has little to do with specific grids. And besides, I'm a traveller, an explorer. I'm none of those who always only stick to their home grid. So I keep travelling to other grids and bumping into people from yet other grids. Not to mention that I don't only have one avatar on one small...

*cough* Mastodon Pleroma Akkoma MissKey FireFish (ex CalcKey) FoundKey Mitra Socialhome GoToSocial Friendica Hubzilla (streams) etc. *cough* All free as in free beer. All free as in freedom. All open-source. None owned by a corporation or any other for-profit. None backed by venture...

The only one I'm aware of who did that was Damien Fate whose fitted (?) mesh clothes templates, previously Second Life-only payware, are now available as free downloads on Outworldz. They've been used as bases for mesh clothes countless times, and they still are. They may have a strange fit...

This applies to pre-BoM mesh bodies. More recent ones have invisible onion layers for make-up or tattoos. The old ones (Athena <4 etc.) have almost full layer clothing support so that you're technically wearing about half a dozen mesh bodies instead of only one. So if you still have an Athena...

First of all, in addition to what was already written, I suggest to switch on the complexity display in your viewer, not only for everyone else's avatars, but especially for yours. Mainly, however, I'd like to take a look at this and comment it from the point of view of someone who has been...

I've always wanted someone to build a big varsim with a jungle with some rivers running through it and name it The Amazonas Full Of Piranhas. Somewhere on it, there should be a town that's on its own parcel. That parcel would be named Manaus Full Of Piranhas. While I'm at it: The parcel that...

Lots of subreddits have been relaunched as Lemmy communities or /kbin magazines recently by the same people. It may finally be worth for a few more people to take a step outside monolithic, centralised corporate silos and take a look at free-as-in-freedom, open, decentralised, distributed...

Well, I've found my peer groups that accept me as well as Juno. It just goes on my nerves how some think just because I don't do things like everyone, I'm too dumb to do things like everyone. Virtual sex has died down a lot since around 2021. Ask Miss Xi. The times of walking into Ruritania...

Of course, we have our niches, too, where those standards don't apply. Medieval roleplay, medieval high fantasy roleplay, that one Victorian-style sim... And where Juno and I are at home, I guess we're rather admired for having our own styles, especially Juno. Not too different from here...

I don't know what it's like in Second Life. Maybe you can answer this. But in OpenSim, I've got the impression that there's a very high pressure for conformity in many areas. If you don't conform to those unwritten standards, you don't count as a rebel with a style of your own. Instead, you're...

Lemmy and /kbin. Literally for Reddit what Mastodon & Co. (see the thread) are for Twitter. And they connect to each other and to Mastodon and to the whole rest of the Fediverse. This means that if you're on e.g. Mastodon, you can still join a Lemmy community or a /kbin magazine. Imagine being...

Good news: There are Lemmy communities for Second Life (unofficial, of course) and, since a few hours ago, OpenSim. And if you need to know how to join a Lemmy community with a Mastodon account, here's a little how-to by yours truly.

I've read somewhere that four out of five first-time SL users only log in once and then never again. My guess is that those who have never used any kind of MMO are repelled by the lack of WhatsApp-grade ease-of-use. And those who have are repelled by how SL surprisingly turns out not to be an...

Just check out lemmygrad.ml, an instance run by the Lemmy devs which shares the same IP address with the "lighthouse instance" lemmy.ml. ☭★ СФММꙠИЇꙄТ СФМЯДDЭꙄ ★☭ Stalinists. Maoists. People who are firmly convinced that Russia is still the Soviet Union Russia is still communist Putin is the...

Well, to be honest, both have their downsides. /kbin is a very early alpha. The whole thing was started from scratch five months ago. Also, it lacks capacity. Before the recent land rush happened, there probably were only the five official test instances, four of which are in Polish. New...

Great, I've written a long rant about virtual worlds, I definitely have posted it, but VVO seems to have been revived in a state shortly before.