Novalandia.Online: The OpenSim Grid!

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My discontent with Second Life has been growing for a long time, and this is definitely something I’ve probably spoken about recently, but, you know how it is: In Second Life it used to be about creating, meeting, being social, hanging out, and all that. But now? It’s about the latest shopping event, rent-seekers looking to score as much profit off of as many people as possible, at all costs. To add insult to injury, Linden Labs has only created more ways to extract money from its users. As if paying 100 to 200 USD for a full region wasn’t crazy enough.

But, over the past month, and while OSGrid was suddenly down for nearly that exact amount of time, and completely unannounced, I decided to put up a server and host my own grid.

And there I’ve been building. I created a landing (arrival area), about 28 regions, found some really old archived regions people built back in 2010 and put them up on my grid (among many other things), and now, today, I have registrations open!

Of course, registration is invite-only (in order to keep out spam accounts and people I wouldn’t want here), but if you’re interested in creating an avatar and exploring the hypergrid yourself, all you have to do is ask! So, in order to get a full picture of what it is I’ve built and am still building, you’ll need to join me in-world!

You can read more about what novalandia.online is, what it means to hop the hypergrid, and where to ask for an invite code, here.