I am reading comments on paid content and various markets in OpenSimulator. I would like to share my thoughts and ask you to correct me if I'm wrong and shed some light on the topic.

In my opinion, Kitely has the best system both as a market and a control system. After working with it for a while, they have managed to achieve a significant result. Creators can set content that they don't want to be forced into permissions as non-exportable to other OpenSim grids, thus protecting it from the infamous GOD mode that users across all grids now have. On the other hand, those who want to make their content exportable risk selling fewer copies since it may be forced and potentially distributed everywhere.

I find it very challenging for original OpenSim creators to sell products and come close to the earnings of Second Life. For instance, even if I sell a product as no-transfer, if it ends up in the grid of a user with GOD powers, it will certainly be unlocked. Unlocking content has become an instinctive practice for many users.

It's a different story for those who create original products and release them for free. Even if unlocked, they will not suffer excessive damage (I hope), and people will be more inclined to respect permissions (I hope) and invite others to get their copy directly from the original creator without forcing and redistributing it as a favor for various friends on other grids (doing it discreetly), which can happen with paid products.

I honestly don't believe this problem will be resolved as long as GOD mode is accessible to everyone. Some grids have denied GOD mode to enforce respect for original creators' content, but these are not popular among users who can get everything they want with GOD mode. They prefer, at the same cost, to obtain regions even in poorly performing grids that allow them to do anything.

Another problem is the backup copies of regions. There have been grids that did not allow the default backup of objects without sufficient permissions, but these grids had no luck or popularity. Meanwhile, those who do not apply such restrictions obviously have more success. Even reloading the OAR on a new grid, the original creator could be permanently lost, creating confusion about who the original creator of the product is and whether the object has been purchased or not.

Therefore, honestly, I think selling on more or less renowned grids is limited to one, two, or ten sales, the time it takes for the product to be unlocked, given away, or loaded into other grids via OAR. All of this, except for Kitely, which has an exceptional system for controlling the "products" leaving its platform, a system that they don't publicly share from what I understand.

AMV INTERNATIONAL DAY 2025
Thursday, March 6th 2025, 9 am-2pm Grid Time

Alternate Metaverse Grid celebrated it's first annual International Day on Thursday March 7th 2024, Celebrating International Diversity on OpenSim.
2025 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

9am Putri Solo - Indonesia
9:30 Nikita Andersen - Italy
10 am Clan Escotia - Scotland
10:30 Joao Frazao - Portugal
11 am Zoree Jupiter - Portugal / USA
11:30 Mavenn Live - Canada / USA
12noon Khiron Ametza - Brazil
12:30 Icky Thump UK
1pm Mr Mikie String USA
1:30 Dave King - USA

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/AMV%20International/231/...

Pool Party at Caribou Angels Thursday 25 January 12-14 - DJ Ruth

Dance and chat at legendary Angels. AVs from all Grids meet at pool party. Shemales Ladyboys 18+ M and F Adult Males Females Neko Furry Fairy.

Safe for all - LGBTQAI Region. All Grids welcome but come as 18+, small or big, short or tall.

The Best Free Shops. Hard to find Athena, Petite, Reborn, Legacy... GRIMM.

No groups as 18+. Shop Love Live Play.

Homes, Islands, Hideaways.

Caribougrid AV? http://hg.caribougrid.com:16002

See here we go again! I'm all bored and stuff so I build stuff! :D Anyway, this is a cute little "plain jane" type Bistro set, brass, glass and tufted purple leather seats complete with AVsitter. It is free and full perm so have fun with it. You can find it at our Star Jinn Palisade Mall in the Masala Al Kohav region of the Genesis Roleplay Grid. It's waiting for you in Lavia's Little Corner. Enjoy!! Blessings and much love, Lavia.

Thanks to all who messaged me the grid was off. We are on and open. please make sure you follow the directions below if it prompts you to verify I can't help you. If you can get in to Digi you can get in here enjoy the freebies have a great day!

We do not have any grid banned! we are hosted by DIGI WORLDZ and must abide by the TOS verification rules. Follow the instruction and key it in correctly and you will get in with no problem. >>>>Here's a link to give to your users:
http://panel.ballernation.us/rci/AuthorizeYourAvatar.php
From there, they can choose if they are a local user, or, if they are a hyper grid user, and then fill in the correct page reminder do not to put in http:// or a slash on the end / Example >>> login.ballernation.us:8002
of the login URL. Choose the right option. Have a good day!

EUROPA, Moon of Jupiter where aliens, attempting to blend in at the shopping mall, mistake mannequins for undercover agents and engage in intense conversations with them about the secrets of human fashion.
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NEW SCI FI MAGABAGA MALL AVAILABLE! TONS OF SCI FI RELATED STUFFS! ALL FOR FREE AND FULL PERM. Go to any interphasic taxi bubble totem and pick up as destination MALL (its in a space station, 1,500 meters up in the sky). Have fun!

Of course nico is heading up a bunch of her friends to harass me as usual. So let me explain to you what happened step by step. First of all silvia is a liar. You can trust her or you can trust me. I have hard evidence of what she did in my logs.
On the wizardry sim where thousands of people have come and gotten things with no issue whatsoever, and where i am always glad to have visitors, silvia appeared. She was on one side of the sim, but she moved her camera view from the area she was standing (by the wizardry store where i make and give away free stuff), all the way over to my castle across the water. On the top floor of my castle is all my inworld servers. They are in a locked room. She browsed past (through) the wall, and then inside this room is a server cabinet that only the owner (llgetowner) can click on and open. Inside that server cabinet is my security orb server. She very carefully moved her camera into the center of that cabinet to catch the edge of the server in her viewer so she could click it and try to manipulate the menu. I put it in a locked cabinet inside a locked room, on the 4th floor of my castle for a reason. Everytime she clicked it, it reported to me. I tried to talk to her but got no response. There is no reason for someone to touch my hidden servers in a hidden cabinet in a locked room. I finally kicked her and she went to my regin elf beach. So I had to set an estate ban. While I was trying to set an estate ban, Wizardry went down. I got logged out. I checked it on the dreamgrid console and wizardry was showing crashed. It also showed a visitor in elf beach. So I got her information from the robust logs and added here to an estate wide ban to keep her off my grid forever. I will never let her back on my grid. If you are wise you will do the same as I have and ban her. All these people coming at me with these nasty comments have no idea what is going on, they were not there. For those of you who are wise you will ban and block her. For those of you who wish to believe liars, then I hope she visits your sim and does what she did to me.

[2024/01/22 13:07] Silvia.Frey@donjavi.minigrid.xyz:8002 is messing with your security orb.

[2024/01/22 13:11] Silvia.Frey@donjavi.minigrid.xyz:8002 is messing with your security orb.

[2024/01/22 13:15] Silvia.Frey@donjavi.minigrid.xyz:8002 is messing with your security orb.

[2024/01/22 13:19] Silvia.Frey@donjavi.minigrid.xyz:8002 is messing with your security orb.

2024-01-22T13:24:13Z WARNING # newview/lltoastalertpanel.cpp(175) LLToastAlertPanel::LLToastAlertPanel : Alert: Darn. You have been logged out of DreamGrid


[2023/10/28 13:07] CyberGlo CyberStar: Can I help you?
[2023/10/28 13:08] Silvia.Frey@donjavi.minigrid.xyz:8002: ha ha ha
[2023/10/28 13:09] CyberGlo CyberStar: Hey! why are you touching my security orb way over there?
[2023/10/28 13:10] CyberGlo CyberStar: Please stoop that! What are you doing?
[2023/10/28 13:13] CyberGlo CyberStar: Hey, stop!! Why are you bothering my security devices in that building on the edge of my sim? My store is over here.
[2023/10/28 13:14] CyberGlo CyberStar: Hello???
[2023/10/28 13:18] CyberGlo CyberStar: I'm going to kick and ban you, if yoou don't leave my stuff alone right now!
[2023/10/28 13:19] CyberGlo CyberStar: Fine! suit yourself!

Hi Friends! I uploaded a new video of me trying to learn to ride this new Dragon a friend was so kind to gift me. The camera angle is difficult, so I have been messing with the camera and hopefully will find a good setting for riding him, cause it is so much fun! Come see me and you can ride him too!
https://youtu.be/hQcOj0SbRYc?si=SDuoEJ6c_c2tZ7ds

Another BRAND NEW original build in our Mall region - Lavine's Mountainview Victorian Manor. It's beautiful and it's yours for the taking CMT and free. This house boasts 3 bedrooms and one bathroom upstairs and Kitchen, Dining/living room combination and a small den/study downstairs; two gorgeous spiral stair wells with stain glass window walls and a built in fireplace that has two "wood storing" cabinets and spindle with stained glass shelves as well as Marble mantle and a black cast spark screen. Come, check it out, take it home. You can't beat the price as it's free. Blessings and much love, Lavia.

Cyberglo has made an absurd and unfounded accusation against Silvia Frey. His post starts with a hysterical headline: PRISCILLA IS BACK!!! THIS TIME A NEW NAME/AVATAR.

I asked Cyber, "Answer just one question. In what way is Silvia Frey, who joined the Blackswan grid almost 8 months ago, and was known in the CopyKat Grid before that,"new?" So far, no answer. Obviously, she is not new.

Cyberglo identifies Silvia with a Blackswan grid address. Blackswan is home to a small group of friends who have been together in SL and now OS for over a decade. It looks like Silvia came to Blackswan in June 2023, when the CopyKat Grid closed. Maurice invited only a few trusted people from CopyKat to BlackSwan. It's doubtful that a guy responsible for keeping two grids safe would invite Priscilla Snot-rag to BlackSwan.

Several people have asked Cyber for evidence to support his wacko-nuts-cray-cray claim. One of them comments, "Hey Cyber. Almost a full day after you made this scaremongering and slanderous post. Obviously, you do not have any evidence. No logs, no screen caps, nothing."

Another person comments, "Why don't you allow Silvia to defend herself of your post? She is trying to access the comments and can't see the post". In other words, he has blocked her. Perhaps in his fevered imagination, he thinks she can take down his regions by just commenting on his OSW post. Did I say wacko-nuts-cray-cray already? It bears repeating.

After looking at the gold Buddha in the 360° snapshot from yesterday, I realized the gold can look much better so I retextured it. This is not pbr, it uses material textures, and adding lights around it will bring out the sparkle even more. This statue is free and can be found in the Asian room in the main store building.

I have added a lot of new items to Holiday Haven. Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and Easter items now available. There is a lot to go through. I still have some organizing to do, so please excuse the untidiness.
**this level is 1010 M up in the air. There is a teleporter, but if it doesn't work, just type gth 1010 in local chat.

Thanks! Hugs...Tig

Hear ye, hear ye! A Proclamation for DJ Kith, Knight of the Beats! Rennaisance Faire at WWB RP HUB! 6:00
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Roleplay Hub
Event begins: 2024-01-22 18:00 SLT
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
From the sun-dappled boughs of the Faire, a rhythmic rumble doth arise! It is DJ Kith, the Spin Wizard of Sherwood, whose musical sorcery shall transport thee to realms of revelry and merriment! But mark well, fair denizens! DJ Kith's magic is fleeting! His reign of revelry shall commence at 6PM and conclude at 8PM. So let not the day wane ere you've joined the throng, for once the last note fades, you'll be left yearning for his electrifying touch!

Hello everyone Do not forget to bring your loved to the place, Mi Amore Tonight .or come yourself and enjoy the good atmosphere and the beautiful music we play here!
Hope to see you here

junglefriends.opensim.fun:8002

New Disco in Paris we invite you all to visit it.
hop://newlifeitaly.net:8002/Paris/138/677/22
Nuova Discoteca A Paris vi invitiamo tutti a visitarla .
hop://newlifeitaly.net:8002/Paris/138/677/22

A view from Diamond Customs boat builders on to a 12x12 Madrigal. Those mountains were generated by our terrain generator in the control panel at www.wolf-grid.com

hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Diamonds%20Customs%202...

DJ Kith's Sunday Night Blues Bash at Rockin' the Blues!! Tonight at 6:00 PM!
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues
Event begins: in 39 minutes: 2024-01-21 18:00 SLT
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
DJ Kith's Sunday Night Blues Bash at Rockin' the Blues!! Tonight at 6:00 PM!
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues
Event begins tonight at 6:00!
Added by: Kith
Blues Man DJ Kith will be on the Rockin' The Blues stage tonight here on Wyldwood Bayou Grid!! Kith loves the blues and loves to bring you his signature upbeat, modern, high energy blues tunes!! When Kith spins... the house rocks and shakes, the excitement is crazy and the Tribe is full of laughter and happiness!

The ORIGINAL Latex Lounge Fetish Dance with live DJ Molly Sheryffe - Tonight at 5pm Pacific!

Come join in for some great music and a great group of people who've been in the BDSM and Fetish business for over 10 years in Opensim! Free LATEX gift every week!!

Starts at 5pm PST!!
Region: Battersea

Welcome back...

Sometime soon there will be spring. I put in some sunflower people that are similar to my tree people. Right now yellow, but soon other colours and all the poses. These were originally a Ukraine Doctors Without Borders related charity item on SL, so my "please don't sell these for money" rule is extra strong here. All legal, original of course.

hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Mythos/486/165/27

Elf Mage DJ Maldrul performs at On The Rocks @ Alternate Metaverse Sundays from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Pacific time
DJ Maldrul will be playing a mix of classic and contemporary Rock & Roll and his signature selection of SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

Come check out Rocky Shores where you can dance, surf, play Greedy, hang out and explore!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Airmid/478/97/23