Setting the stage for tomorrow's Summer Tour Finale at the Emerald City at Club Escotia! Watch for low flying tornados :)

LIVE MUSIC
Friday at 1 PM
Saturday at 11 AM

There’s no place like home—but this weekend, there’s no place like Emerald City!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Club Escotia (Main stage, click from the landing and follow the yel... you know ;)

Singer Joao Frazao Live from Portugal Today At the Amv Landing Point
Singer and song writer Joao playing for you his Music and Covers
Join him for a 1 hour Show
Everybody is Welcome
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

My condolences @RevTom.

Azraella was one of the most kind and creative friends I had.
I am grateful for the friendship we shared for many years.

Rest in Peace my dear friend, you will be missed.
See you in the next life.

Hugs

Brand new region that I just am opening today. This is a freebie landscaping/garden sim with original creations. Everything is free to copy or buy for zero at the vendor signs. All are full permissions and you can do anything with them that you want. New things will be added regularly because I am just getting started. So hop over from time to time. You may need to give yourself a minute or two to rez once you arrive.
hop://grid.sub-version.space:8002/Willowbrook%20Gardens/12...
grid.sub-version.space:8002:Willowbrook Gardens

August/Septembers photo contest is for the theme of travel. Anyone can enter. Go along to the gallery shown here to see and have a go yourself!
There is still a week to go so don't be shy. Send your entries to me Xi for a chance to win a prize and eternal fame !

Blues Lady Mavenn, Live from Canada , Bringing you the most amazing Blues Songs.
With her Sandy Voice , and her perfection , giving you the best of the best .
Join her for 1 hour Show at the Amv Landing Poing
Everybody is Welcome
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

Announcement regarding the passing of DJ Azraella.

To the community, friends, and fellow artists,

It is with profound sadness that I am writing to inform you that DJ Azraella passed away peacefully surrounded by family just weeks after her final event and her public post regarding the lack of process on Neverworld grid. I am her surviving spouse. Alithea (her real name) spent her final months bringing her passion, music, and talent to this platform as a DJ and music producer. Music was a large parts of her life, and she deeply valued the genuine connections she made with her listeners, fans, and fellow performers.
Regarding the recent events: Alithea spoke the absolute truth about the abuse she experienced and the systemic failure that followed. We are deeply grateful to the community members, onlookers, and witnesses who saw through the edited timelines, called out the manipulation, and stood up to defend her integrity when she was at her most vulnerable. Your solidarity meant the world to her, and it means the world to me. The institutional response here was entirely compromised, but the court of public opinion has already spoken. No amount of righteous indignation, fabricated evidence, or protective bias from Neverworld grid management can rewrite history or erase the reality of how she was treated in her final weeks. This will be my only communication on this matter. I am completely disconnecting from this Platform to focus on my grief and to honour my wife’s memory in the real world, where her true legacy, her music, and her staunch integrity remain entirely unblemished. Thank you to everyone who brought her joy, danced to her music, and stood by her side. Sincerely, Road Kill.

Reposted on behalf of DJ Azraella.
Why Never Neverworld.

There is something particularly bleak about a community calling itself “The Friendly Grid” while apparently treating abusive behaviour as a problem best solved by telling the person on the receiving end: “You have a mute button.” Welcome to Neverworld Grid, where, judging by my experience, “friendly” may be less a standard of conduct than a decorative slogan attached to the front door.

I was a DJ in a virtual worlds for years lately as a visiting performer at Neverworld. By the point this incident occurred, however, my personal circumstances had changed. I am dying. That is not written for melodrama or sympathy. It matters because it explains what it cost me physically to be there at all. Despite being seriously ill and largely confined to bed, I got out of bed and DJed one final event to say thank you to my audience for supporting me and to draw people in one last time, which also helped to promote Neverworld Grid.

The reward was memorable, although perhaps not in quite the way their promotional department might prefer. During the event, I was verbally attacked and abused by a member of Neverworld Grid.

Behind every avatar is a human being. The fact that an interaction takes place in a virtual world does not make the behaviour, or its effect on another person, imaginary. The following day, despite the physical toll, I got out of bed again and raised a formal complaint with the owner of Neverworld Grid. I expected, at minimum, the complaint to be taken seriously. What I encountered instead was dismissal. No action was taken against the resident. My complaint was pretty much ignored and seen as nothing other than an interpersonal issue despite the fact I was a victim of one of their residents.

And then came this: “You have a mute button.”

And there, in five small words, lies the much larger problem. Of course I have a mute button. A mute button is a useful tool for an individual. It is not a substitute for moderation. Those are two entirely different things. A mute button allows the recipient to stop hearing somebody's behaviour. Moderation determines whether that behaviour is acceptable within the community in the first place. Confusing the two produces a wonderfully convenient system for administrators: the offender remains, the complainant makes them disappear from view, and management is spared the disagreeable business of actually managing anything. Problem solved. Well, invisible, which is apparently close enough. Imagine applying this philosophy anywhere else. Someone behaves disgracefully in a cinema and the management responds: 'you can use ear-plugs.' One can only admire the efficiency. No difficult confrontation. No standards requiring enforcement. No possibility of upsetting a patron who may have a life-time ticket. Just mute and carry on.

Neverworld Grid presents itself with the tagline: “The friendly grid.” That is precisely why this incident matters. If you advertise friendliness as part of your identity, then friendliness ceases to be merely a pleasant aspiration. It becomes a claim about the community you operate. And claims should survive contact with reality. A genuinely friendly community is not one in which nobody ever behaves badly. Such a place does not exist outside advertising copy and unusually optimistic children's television. A friendly community is one in which antisocial behaviour is taken seriously when it occurs. It is demonstrated by what administrators do when unfriendliness becomes inconvenient. That is the test. Not the logo. Not the website. Not the slogan. Not smiling avatars standing beneath carefully selected promotional photographs. The test comes when somebody crosses the line and management has to decide whether its proclaimed standards actually mean anything.

In my case, I believe Neverworld Grid failed that test spectacularly. I cannot state why the owner chose not to take action. Only the owner can answer that. But users are entitled to ask uncomfortable questions when enforcement appears absent.

What behaviour actually results in consequences?
Does a resident's financial contribution affect how complaints concerning them are handled?
Are paying residents subject to precisely the same behavioural standards as visitors are?
What happens after a formal complaint?
And perhaps most importantly: What behaviour would actually be serious enough for Neverworld Grid management to intervene rather than telling the recipient, “You have a mute button”? These are questions created by the apparent absence of action. If Neverworld Grid wants people to believe that payment of tier guarantees renters a friendly safe place, there is a very simple way of showing it: Have standards and apply them.

There is another unpleasant implication to the “you have a mute button” response. It transfers responsibility. The person accused of behaving abusively does not apparently need to change their behaviour. Instead, the person experiencing it must change theirs. You must mute. You must avoid. You must adapt. Management remains comfortably above the unpleasantness while the individual affected quietly rearranges their virtual existence around somebody else's deplorable conduct. That isn't moderation. It is outsourcing moderation to the victim. And it creates an obvious incentive for the worst personalities in any community: behave however you please as long as you keep paying. Eventually you can achieve the remarkable distinction of being peacefully surrounded by people who either tolerate you or cannot see or hear you. Community harmony, achieved through selective deafness as decreed by management.

There is another aspect of this which a mute button cannot undo: the physical effect of the encounter has already happened. Verbal abuse is not experienced solely as words arriving through speakers or appearing on a screen. Human beings respond physically to confrontation and distress. The body does not first consult the graphics card to determine whether an attack is sufficiently real to react to it. For a healthy person, that reaction can be deeply unpleasant. For somebody who is dying, already seriously ill and functioning with greatly diminished reserves, the consequences of that stress can carry considerably greater weight and could even be the last stress that body can take. And once that distress has occurred, telling the person “you have a mute button” is not a remedy.

The button cannot take you backwards in time. It cannot prevent the encounter that already happened. It cannot erase the stress already inflicted. And it certainly cannot answer the question of why the behaviour that caused the complaint apparently attracted no consequence. There is a peculiar cruelty in dismissing that distinction which no amount of virtual-world branding can disguise.

I did not expect sainthood. I did not expect somebody to erect a statue of my avatar outside the welcome centre. I expected basic human decency and a complaint to be treated seriously.

Apparently that must be the 'Super Ultimate Friend of the Owner' premium feature. Neverworld Grid calls itself friendly. People considering investing their time, creativity, communities and money there should understand what “friendly” meant when my complaint was placed in front of its owner. Because communities reveal themselves not through their slogans but through the behaviour they are prepared to tolerate. Anybody can write: “We are the friendly grid.” The interesting question is what happens when somebody isn't friendly. In my experience, the answer was depressingly simple: Nothing. The complaint was effectively binned. Apparently making bad actors into clouds is your only option meanwhile Management avoided doing anything meaningful other than preserve a monthly tier payment. And the slogan will survive. Perhaps that is the most impressive achievement of all. In virtual worlds, apparently even irony can be rendered in 3D.

Neverworld Grid also seems very keen on telling people that it isn't Second Life.

Second Life gets plenty of criticism, some of it deserved. One complaint you hear is that region owners can make their own rules and, if you don't follow them, eject or ban you. That can certainly be irritating. People can make ridiculous rules. People can throw you out for reasons you think are unfair. Give somebody control over a virtual patch of land and occasionally they begin behaving as though Buckingham Palace has asked for the keys back. But there is another side to it. If you enter somebody's region, you know they have rules and that breaking them can have consequences. If you behave badly enough, somebody can actually do something about it. After my experience with Neverworld Grid, I find myself wondering why removing that is supposed to be an improvement. If the alternative to somebody saying “These are the rules here” is somebody behaving abusively and the person being abused getting told “You have a mute button,” which system is actually friendlier?

There has to be some middle ground between petty little dictators throwing people off regions because they don't like the colour of their shoes and a free-for-all where nobody wants to intervene.
Rules can be abused. So can the absence of rules. The difference is that when there are sensible community standards, ordinary people know where they stand. Don't abuse people. Don't deliberately disrupt things. Don't make somebody else's experience miserable. Hardly tyranny. And if somebody does cross those lines, there should be consequences. Neverworld seems to dislike the way people in Second Life exercise control over their own regions. Fine. But what is being offered instead? If the answer is greater freedom, then whose freedom are we talking about? The freedom of somebody to enjoy an event without being abused? Or the freedom of somebody to behave however they like without anybody in authority becoming involved? Because those freedoms collide eventually. Mine did. And apparently I had a mute button.

Then there is the question of tier. People pay to be on grids like this. That makes it reasonable to ask whether somebody who keeps paying can expect considerably more tolerance than somebody who just visits but still contributes to the success of the grid. I cannot prove that this is what happened in my case. But the response I received certainly gives me reason to ask. If somebody pays tier and behaves disgracefully, what happens? Are they warned? Are there consequences? Or does everybody they upset simply get reminded where the mute button is? Because if the practical message becomes: Pay your tier and management will look the other way, then who exactly does that attract? Most decent people don't need immunity from basic standards of behaviour. Creators don't need it. DJs don't need it. People running events don't need it. People who simply want somewhere pleasant to spend a few hours don't need it. The people who benefit most from a place where bad behaviour carries few consequences are, rather obviously, the people most likely to behave badly. That seems an extraordinary foundation for something calling itself “The Friendly Grid.”

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be different from Second Life. But different does not automatically mean better. If Second Life says, in effect, “behave yourself here or somebody may throw you out,” while Neverworld's answer to abuse is “you have a mute button,” I know which approach now looks more like a community and which looks more like an incompetent Management avoidance strategy. Being different is easy. Being better requires rather more than a tagline. If Neverworld Grid believes this account misrepresents its standards, it can explain them.

What happens when someone reports serious verbal abuse? What behaviour actually results in action?
Are paying residents treated exactly the same as everyone else? And why was “You have a mute button” considered an adequate response to my complaint?

Those answers would tell people considerably more about Neverworld Grid than any slogan ever could.
Until then, perhaps the tagline deserves a small amendment:

“Neverworld Grid — The Friendly Grid. You have a mute button.”
or
" Welcome to Neverworld the Friendly Grid where you may have to mute your fellow residents"
or perhaps as almost happened in my case:
" Neverworld the Friendly Grid (we let you away with murder just keep paying you'll see)"

The bottom line has to be this:

If you claim friendliness you automatically accept a duty of care to all users. and paying doesn't excuse unfriendliness. Community standards you claim must be enforced swiftly and across all tiers of membership and extend to visitors. I was told my abuser hadn't broken any TOS. I guess there is no actual TOS beyond the owner's mood. Yes you guessed it my abuser is a friend of the owner.

My final advice to anyone looking for a new home...lift the carpets before you decide.

I won't see a resolution to this issue or see Virtual again but that doesn't mean you can't learn from my experience.

Azraella.

“Behind Glass”

I hold a world inside my hands
too heavy for what it became
A flicker somewhere deep within
like endings learning how to begin

The colors burn but make no sound
no voice that dares to travel out
And everything feels far away
like I was never meant to stay
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„Hinter Glas“

Ich halte eine Welt in meinen Händen
zu schwer für das, was daraus geworden ist
Ein Flackern tief in mir
wie Enden, die lernen, neu anzufangen

Die Farben brennen, doch kein Laut
keine Stimme, die es wagt, sich zu erheben
Und alles fühlt sich fern an
als wäre ich nie dazu bestimmt gewesen zu bleiben.

https://youtu.be/6NrVQ3dvvLc?list=RD6NrVQ3dvvLc

Bingo Bingo Bingo! at 8am - 10am SLT (4pm - 6pm UK)
Come and join us for a few Games of Bingo
And have a laughter and a banter
Experience a new Bingo system, made special for AMV!
everybody is welcome to come and play
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

Join us for an unforgettable session at the New Landing Point in Alternate Metaverse Grid!
With Dj Tyler
Dj Tyler Bringing his best Tunes from back then and Now , Laughter banter and great ambient
Join him for her 2 hour morning breakfast set and meet up with some amazing people .
We cant wait to see you there !!!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

Jetpack with real flames! flames light when you are in fly mode. Touch it for TP menu.
we use cold-burning flame propulsion to avoid melting latex
hop://hg.holoneon.com:80/Holoneon%20Welcome/154/121/27

Hi everyone. Generally, I can teleport across the Hypergrid without issues, but a problem has come up: I can't teleport, and I get the error "connection between the viewer and the destination could not be established." I've tried various solutions—reducing bandwidth, texture size, and draw distance, and even installing a VPN (which I don't like)—but none have worked. When I installed the VPN, it let me teleport, but upon arrival, only the ground would load and nothing else. Does anyone have any suggestions? Ty in advantage!

💚Amid the darkness, a light falls upon us.
Not strong enough to change the world —
but bright enough to keep us moving forward.💚
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💚Mitten im Dunkel fällt ein Licht auf uns.
Nicht stark genug, die Welt zu verändern –
aber hell genug, um weiterzugehen.💚

Hey everyone, next week I will be on vacation September 2-7th on a fishing trip. I will have wifi and my computer. I am going fishing.

During that time i wont be in world much, but if there are any problems with the grid send me a message. I will have internet. Below are the several ways to get in touch. Rocky one will also be around via Team Viewer or Discord.

https://grid.myvirtualbeach.com/jOpensim/index.php/en/cont...
https://discord.gg/AmdrkccK79 (Mistress Dalgato)

Opensimworld.com ( OSW doesn't lately tell me I have a message)

https://teams.live.com/l/invite/FAAqtwHT0nG9DWT7Qg

Also you can contact me in world

Hey everyone!

You will notice our old Joomla website is sometimes on and sometimes off. Here is the deal and some tips.

First off I want to thank fred for all his hard work on dreamgrid.

Some things in the new website require php8, so we have to switch over from php 7 that joomla uses for the new website to fix things and get it going.

Second, I want to thank Gundahar Bravin. He has been amazing with helping us get his epic L.O.R.E plugin for wordpress for maps working. Since website uses HTTPS but a port on dreamgrid uses http that meant we had to figure out a way around it since http to http is preferred. Many thanks to him for helping us with a workaround in his plugin.

With the help of chat GPT I was finally able to get ImageMagick installed and working for wordpress with dreamgrid along with curl and XML-RPC. If you use dreamgrid and your website is via wordpress, you need those 3 things for opensimulator plugin to work.

Apache was having a hard time finding ImageMagick even after i installed the dll, so i had to tell it in the file where the location was and boom, issue solved. Also I had to install a 7.11 version, not 7.12 incase anyone has that same issue.

One thing I noticed is by the next day, the changes i made to php8.ini were reverted back, anyone know why that happened? I was able to simple fix it and its back working.

Thank you to all that have helped me along this process. We will eventually get this new website up, it will just take a little longer then i thought.

LinkUp Grid Grand Opening Countdown!
Opening Date: 4th September, Starting at 10:00am (Grid Time)

Something exciting is coming to the OpenSim world!

LinkUp Grid is getting ready to open its doors — bringing together friends, fun, creativity, events, and new connections from across the OpenSim community.

We’re putting the finishing touches together…
Exciting places to explore
Events & entertainment
A welcoming community
New friendships & connections
And so much more to come!

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Only 8 days to go until the LinkUp Grid Grand Opening!

Get ready for an amazing opening celebration featuring:

DJ Whisper
Live Performance – OuieNanda Proud2B Thai
DJ Ted
Live Performance – Eva Fae

The countdown has begun… and we can’t wait to Link Up with you!

Get a taste of what’s coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmSOMhrePw

LINK UP. CONNECT. CREATE. BELONG.

HG Safari returns on September 2 after a long break ! The season lasts until November. As usual our international group will be going to see all kinds of art, tech, landscapes, seascapes and strange fantastical places. Join us if you can for two outstanding destinations this coming Wednesday.
To read more about our upcoming visit, https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2026/08/safari-reentry.html

🚨⚠️ PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️🚨

🌴🏊‍♂️ CCC ROOFTOP POOL — GRAND OPENING! 🏊‍♀️🌴

We have a pool.
We have music.
We have drinks.
We have tentacles. 🦑
We have unicorns. 🦄
We have absolutely NO IDEA what is going to happen next. 😂

🎧 ADRIAN MOON LIVE
🔥 Beats • Pool • Sun • Madness
🍹 Drinks • Floats • Bad Decisions
👙 DRESS TO GET WET

📅 WEDNESDAY 26TH AUGUST
⏰ 11 AM GRID TIME
📍 CCC ROOFTOP POOL

🔗 hop://grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002/Rooftop-Events/101/107...

Bring your friends. Bring your swimwear. Bring your best dance moves.

Leave your dignity at home. It will only get wet anyway. 😂🔥

🎉 CCC ROOFTOP POOL — GRAND OPENING
Pool • Beats • Sunsets • Madness

My region Carlita is closed these days for two reasons that already have been discussed here. In case you want to visit you can order your Ticket here:
buymeacoffee.com/cozycomforts/e/569349
... it is not about the money, but for more transparency for me.
Choosing this Club we could transfer it to Tartaria in Osgrid, if you already have an account there. Including furniture, decoration inside and outside.

I want to be specific: I have been an artist in RL for decades, i had worked on paper and did collages when nobody knew what computers could do. The only machine i had was a copy machine and it was fun. I had also put my face on it and objects, experimenting a lot. I dont use AI on my artwork these days because i could not do art without it. I am experimenting. I was mixing RL artwork and virtual photography (exposed them in a gallery in RL), now adding AI to it and using different prompts and filters and exploring programs and having so much fun. Any artist can choose his tools, that is perfectly ok for me and i would visit an exhibition for other aspects than what tools are used to express the content, does this person have someting to tell me? (btw. i like to use the french word expo - exposition because what ideas people have in that expression is what i imagine in the english expression. not going into details. lol)

Phx & BK vereint | Ein kleiner Spaziergang

Ein Tag wie aus Zucker und Bambus: alles leicht, verspielt und ein bisschen frech.
Zwischen Pagoden und Lampions mischen sich Katzenohren mit Kirschblüten,
und jedes Outfit erzählt still von Abenteuerlust und Lächeln im Wind.

Hier wird Mode zum Spielplatz – mal hüpfend, mal träumend, nie ganz ernst.
Ein Hauch Asien, ein Spritzer Fantasie, und schon tanzt die Sonne mit.
BK bleibt dabei charmant kindlich – einfach schön, ohne großes Getue.

Hello, dear manufacturers and copycats of Mesh products (houses, furniture, clothing).
Time and again, you release AI-edited versions of your products.
But when I take a look, oh well—it looks terrible.
Be honest and post it exactly as it appears in the viewer.
Thank you.
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Sometimes the path leads through darkness,
and we don't know how much farther we have to go.
But as long as we hold each other's hand,
no step is ever completely without hope.

And somewhere ahead, a little light is shining –
perhaps still far away, perhaps only a tiny glow.
But it reminds us:
**Even the longest tunnel has an end.**
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Manchmal führt der Weg durch Dunkelheit,
und wir wissen nicht, wie lang er noch sein wird.
Doch solange wir einander die Hand halten,
ist kein Schritt ganz ohne Hoffnung.

Und irgendwo vor uns brennt ein kleines Licht –
vielleicht noch fern, vielleicht nur ein winziger Schein.
Doch es erinnert uns daran:
**Auch der längste Tunnel hat ein Ende.**

Gridtalkparty am 25.08.2026
💜Danke für den schönen Abend.💜
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Gridtalk Party on August 25, 2026

💜Thank you for the wonderful evening.💜

As far as I can see, we have around 20 clubs to present, and pictures will follow. I’m still deciding whether to use AI-enhanced images or keep things more natural. What would you prefer?

If someone is interested in a particular location, I could also take pictures there first.

Not everyone enjoys building, but some people have excellent management skills, so there are some really interesting opportunities for them. If you’re interested, just leave a comment and I’ll add you to my contacts. I’d be happy to work with you in the future! 😊

When it comes to residents, though, managing them can be quite a lot of work for a grid owner. I love building, but I’m definitely not a natural-born manager, and time is always the limiting factor. My priority is creating, not managing residents.

On OSGrid, people already have their accounts, and I had originally planned to build something on Tartaria. But lately, OSGrid seems to be getting pretty laggy again, so I decided to rez the new regions on my own grid side instead. I didn’t want a repeat of what happened with my Big Cozy Region when OSGrid went down.

That’s also why the new regions **Michaela** and **Village of Art** stayed on my grid. Apparently, this also led to me being blocked from advertising on OSGrid, without any discussion. Maybe OSGrid isn’t too happy when people add value outside their grid, or maybe someone put pressure on them. Who knows. 🤷‍♀️

In the end, I think the virtual world can be a pretty crazy place sometimes. 😂 But I still love creating, and I’m not going to stop just because things get complicated. Maybe I’ll eventually find a more peaceful world… another planet, perhaps. Or at least a better galaxy. 😄🌌

And yes, sometimes accounts are given to friends. But experience has taught me that good friends aren’t always that easy to find in a virtual world. 😉