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2025-06-30 16:57:38

daemon_nova@labyrinth.zone

Today on NovaLandia: OpenSim, the Mastodon of Second Life? I took a dive into the open protocol version of what is technically "Second Life," but also isn't.

https://mkultra.monster/second-life/2025/06/30/opensim/

#opensim #blogging

2025-06-30 21:40:45

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@:minecraftPickaxe: ⸸ cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$ 🏳️‍⚧️ OpenSim user for five years here.

Little nitpick: OSgrid is not "the OpenSim grid". It is not even "the official OpenSim grid". There is no such thing as an official OpenSim grid, only 4,000+ big and small grids that are independent from both each other and OpenSim's development.

In fact, OpenSim, that's five spare-time hobbyists, a wiki, a code repository and a bug tracker. Nothing more. Everything else is third-party.

OSgrid was the first public grid. It's the oldest grid, 18 years next month. And it's probably the only major grid that runs vanilla code so that the OpenSim devs can debug their development code under regular conditions. AFAIK, the other big grids all run forks. In fact, OSgrid isn't even the biggest grid anymore. While it's bigger than Second Life, the Wolf Territories Grid is bigger than both.

If you want to know more, your blog post was the perfect opportunity for me to finally write an article on OpenSim's decentrality that I had planned for a while now.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSgrid