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Re-posted 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.
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.
 | Ⲙⲁꞅi: Azraella, I am so deeply sorry. Reading this broke my heart. Behind every avatar is a real human being, with a real life, real struggles, and real feelings. Sometimes we forget just how much courage ... 32 minutes ago |
You might miss out on a lot of fun and great music
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Our grid is currently down The data center where the servers are stored lost power. They just fixed the ac and are trying to cool the place down. Will keep you updated.
| | Spax Orion: Come to Ozone, Mistress... we have wicked cookies! 22 hours ago |
💜Finding each other.💜
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🦊🐺 Furry & Beast Avatar Hunt! 🐾
I’m on the hunt for a seriously cool furry or beast avatar! 😎
If you know a good place to find one, drop me a line!
And if you show me a place I like… I’ll probably promote the hell out of it wherever I go anyway 😂🔥
Would really appreciate the help! ❤️
I’m on the hunt for a seriously cool furry or beast avatar! 😎
If you know a good place to find one, drop me a line!
And if you show me a place I like… I’ll probably promote the hell out of it wherever I go anyway 😂🔥
Would really appreciate the help! ❤️
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Zoree Jupiter Live
2-3:00pm SL Time
Club Fire
Gentle Fire Grid
Semi Casual attire
hop://gentlefire.opensim.fun:8002/Gentle%20Fire%20Grid/21/...
sex sounds beds
VWEC and MOOC are happy to present OpenSIM for educators! Come on over to VWEC Kitely to converse, explore, and learn more about opportunities for creating your learning project in OpenSIM!
Cookie in Kitely
10 AM Grid time
Use the Opensimulator version of Firestorm
https://www.firestormviewer.org/choose-your-platform/
TYPE this address into the map:
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie%20II/122/130/25 !!!!PLEASE USE THIS HOP!!!!!
the black swan boat also circles you can ride this one, the small swan boat is drivable, I know for me anyway, I think others can to, won't know till someone tries, :P
Hey everyone!
I have made the hard hard decision that its time to let go of our current website that uses Joomla/Jopensim.
Jopensim is out of date and those that were finishing what foto started have been mia for months. Because of it, Joomla cant be updated and there for pose a security risk and other things.
The new website will be powered by WordPress. It will take some time to get it up, going, and looking similar to the current.
Please enjoy the current website for now until we finish the new one. I very sad to the website everyone worked so hard on soon gone.
I have made the hard hard decision that its time to let go of our current website that uses Joomla/Jopensim.
Jopensim is out of date and those that were finishing what foto started have been mia for months. Because of it, Joomla cant be updated and there for pose a security risk and other things.
The new website will be powered by WordPress. It will take some time to get it up, going, and looking similar to the current.
Please enjoy the current website for now until we finish the new one. I very sad to the website everyone worked so hard on soon gone.
| | OpenSimUser: Really do wish though that someone would release a new version of something that will work. Because opensim itself has never worked as well as it currently is, and thats no lie. 2 days ago |
Driveable Golf carts are now available!!!
DJane Dragon at The Coffin Club on Carpe Noctem : Sun 9th Aug 8:00 AM to Sun 9th Aug 10:00 AM
DJ DragonLady - Dragon loves gothic rock, her sets are lively and often feature the less well known european artists
I´ll play Hardrock, Metall, EBM-Industrial, German Gothic Rock.
Hope to see you there.
DJ Dragon
The Coffin Club
The Coffin Club a gothic club in a church surrounded by a cemetry, furnished with coffins, music is gothic, rock, metal, EBM and Industrial.
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe%20Noctem/86/170/22
Listen to: http://dragon.radioamv.com
DJ DragonLady - Dragon loves gothic rock, her sets are lively and often feature the less well known european artists
I´ll play Hardrock, Metall, EBM-Industrial, German Gothic Rock.
Hope to see you there.
DJ Dragon
The Coffin Club
The Coffin Club a gothic club in a church surrounded by a cemetry, furnished with coffins, music is gothic, rock, metal, EBM and Industrial.
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe%20Noctem/86/170/22
Listen to: http://dragon.radioamv.com
Our crew has been busy!!
Getting ready for another season of Rockin' The Seas Tours in Redwood Bay!
Keep Watching the Event Calendar and Gatecrashers!!!
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DJs, Live Entertainment, On Board the ONLY Original Moving Event Venue in the Metaverse!
Getting ready for another season of Rockin' The Seas Tours in Redwood Bay!
Keep Watching the Event Calendar and Gatecrashers!!!
https://gatecrashers.events/ for all upcoming event tours!
DJs, Live Entertainment, On Board the ONLY Original Moving Event Venue in the Metaverse!
DJ Ting at Party Stage on Alternate Metaverse : Sun 9th Aug 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM
Come join multi genre DJ Ting, Ting has 50 years of experience, he plays tunes we all like to hear.
Put on your dancing shoes and come on down to Alternate Metaverse !
We are looking forward to seeing you all here :)
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Alternate Metaverse is the new landing point, come and make new friends
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Come join multi genre DJ Ting, Ting has 50 years of experience, he plays tunes we all like to hear.
Put on your dancing shoes and come on down to Alternate Metaverse !
We are looking forward to seeing you all here :)
Party Stage
Alternate Metaverse is the new landing point, come and make new friends
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/31...
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LIVE DJ • LATE NIGHT AT ESC
Listen to a live DJ set, have a drink, talk, meet people and just enjoy the night.
[]~(￣▽￣)~* Come spend some time with us *~(￣▽￣)~[]
📍hop://mk3.org:5002/ESC/128/128/30
Listen to a live DJ set, have a drink, talk, meet people and just enjoy the night.
[]~(￣▽￣)~* Come spend some time with us *~(￣▽￣)~[]
📍hop://mk3.org:5002/ESC/128/128/30
It's 5 o'clock on the Hypergrid!!! It's Tini Time! Happy Saturday!!
| | Kimm Starr: A Lovely relaxing evening. 5 days ago |
Welcome to Cyberia - where the androids party!
Charge your cells, ready your implants - its time to shake your servo motors to the BEST EDM
@ ZEE - ♫ where the beat goes on! ♫
Male & Female android skins sponsored by She Said Destroy are available at the club.
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Misty%20Isles/591/893/23
Charge your cells, ready your implants - its time to shake your servo motors to the BEST EDM
@ ZEE - ♫ where the beat goes on! ♫
Male & Female android skins sponsored by She Said Destroy are available at the club.
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Misty%20Isles/591/893/23
| | Hicks: and alway a good experience :) 6 days ago |
Tauche ein in eine Nacht voller Musik, guter Stimmung und unvergesslicher Momente.
Am Samstag, den 8. August ab 20:00 Uhr verwandelt sich das Café Käse in den perfekten Ort zum Tanzen, Feiern und Genießen. DJ Thalion sorgt mit den besten Beats für eine mitreißende Atmosphäre – von entspannten Vibes bis hin zu tanzbaren Highlights.
Ob mit Freunden, als Date oder einfach, um einen besonderen Abend zu erleben – hier bist du genau richtig. Freu dich auf romantisches Ambiente, stimmungsvolle Lichter und eine Nacht, die noch lange in Erinnerung bleibt.
Dance Night mit DJ Thalion
Café Käse
Samstag, 8. August
Beginn: 20:00 Uhr
Komm vorbei, tanz mit uns und genieße eine unvergessliche Sommernacht! Weniger anzeigen
Am Samstag, den 8. August ab 20:00 Uhr verwandelt sich das Café Käse in den perfekten Ort zum Tanzen, Feiern und Genießen. DJ Thalion sorgt mit den besten Beats für eine mitreißende Atmosphäre – von entspannten Vibes bis hin zu tanzbaren Highlights.
Ob mit Freunden, als Date oder einfach, um einen besonderen Abend zu erleben – hier bist du genau richtig. Freu dich auf romantisches Ambiente, stimmungsvolle Lichter und eine Nacht, die noch lange in Erinnerung bleibt.
Dance Night mit DJ Thalion
Café Käse
Samstag, 8. August
Beginn: 20:00 Uhr
Komm vorbei, tanz mit uns und genieße eine unvergessliche Sommernacht! Weniger anzeigen
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
Join DJ Yana for a very special musical journey on the NewLifeItaly Grid.
Expect an evening filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Bruce Springsteen, John Farnham with Mitch Tambo and Michael Jackson, to some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and give you goosebumps.
This is not just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through memories, emotions, beautiful voices and performances that bring people together.
Come dressed up, settle in, relax and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
Requests are always welcome!
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
DJ Yana
Monday, August 10th
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Grid Time
NewLifeItaly Grid
Dress Code: Formal
Where Music Brings Us Together. ❤️
Join DJ Yana for a very special musical journey on the NewLifeItaly Grid.
Expect an evening filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Bruce Springsteen, John Farnham with Mitch Tambo and Michael Jackson, to some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and give you goosebumps.
This is not just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through memories, emotions, beautiful voices and performances that bring people together.
Come dressed up, settle in, relax and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
Requests are always welcome!
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
DJ Yana
Monday, August 10th
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Grid Time
NewLifeItaly Grid
Dress Code: Formal
Where Music Brings Us Together. ❤️
Welcome to Cyberia - where the androids party!
Shake your servo motors to the best EDM
@ ZEE - ♫ where the beat goes on! ♫
Male & Female android skins sponsored by She Said Destroy are available at the club.
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Misty%20Isles/591/893/23
Shake your servo motors to the best EDM
@ ZEE - ♫ where the beat goes on! ♫
Male & Female android skins sponsored by She Said Destroy are available at the club.
hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Misty%20Isles/591/893/23
Sometimes a place doesn’t have to be real for the feelings it gives us to be real.
A quiet moment, a little trust, and a creature born from our dreams.
Perhaps it is these little escapes from reality that remind us just how beautiful it could be. 💜
A quiet moment, a little trust, and a creature born from our dreams.
Perhaps it is these little escapes from reality that remind us just how beautiful it could be. 💜
| | 0girly0: love is beautiful in all shades what it makes, same is with life and just when I wrote this I saw this song in utube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRulNQsuYQ&list=RDucRulNQsuYQ&start_radio=1 6 days ago |
Hallo, wer kann und will mir helfen.
Ich suche ein Bahnhofsgebäude, kompletten Zug, Bahnsteig und ähnliches.
Wer gibt sowas ab, lässt kopieren oder wer weiss wo ich diese Dinge erhalten kann?
Hello, who can and wants to help me?
I am looking for a Railway station building, a complete train, a railway platform, and similar items.
Who has such things to spare, would allow copies to be made, or knows where I can get them?
Ich suche ein Bahnhofsgebäude, kompletten Zug, Bahnsteig und ähnliches.
Wer gibt sowas ab, lässt kopieren oder wer weiss wo ich diese Dinge erhalten kann?
Hello, who can and wants to help me?
I am looking for a Railway station building, a complete train, a railway platform, and similar items.
Who has such things to spare, would allow copies to be made, or knows where I can get them?
| | CyberGlo CyberStar: I am almost certain of a distinct possibility of containerizing the aforementioned items in part II, subpart c, section j5 of the previously issued statement above, recalling this information leaves m... 7 days ago |
Achtung!!!!!!
Heute Abend, ab sofort Dorenas Spontan-MIX im Rockhouse!!
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Attention!!!!!!
Tonight, starting now, Dorena's spontaneous mix at the Rockhouse!!
Heute Abend, ab sofort Dorenas Spontan-MIX im Rockhouse!!
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Attention!!!!!!
Tonight, starting now, Dorena's spontaneous mix at the Rockhouse!!
| | NightshadeCeres: 8h deutsche zeit? 7 days ago |
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
Join DJ Yana for a very special musical journey on the NewLifeItaly Grid.
Expect an evening filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Bruce Springsteen, John Farnham with Mitch Tambo and Michael Jackson, to some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and give you goosebumps.
This is not just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through memories, emotions, beautiful voices and performances that bring people together.
Come dressed up, settle in, relax and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
Requests are always welcome!
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
DJ Yana
Monday, August 10th
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Grid Time
NewLifeItaly Grid
Dress Code: Formal
Where Music Brings Us Together. ❤️
Join DJ Yana for a very special musical journey on the NewLifeItaly Grid.
Expect an evening filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Bruce Springsteen, John Farnham with Mitch Tambo and Michael Jackson, to some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and give you goosebumps.
This is not just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through memories, emotions, beautiful voices and performances that bring people together.
Come dressed up, settle in, relax and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
Requests are always welcome!
🎶 Songs That Touch the Soul
DJ Yana
Monday, August 10th
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Grid Time
NewLifeItaly Grid
Dress Code: Formal
Where Music Brings Us Together. ❤️
🤠 YEEHAW, PARTNERS! 🤠
Dust off your boots, grab your cowboy hat, and saddle up for two hours of the very best Country & Western music!
Join DJ Yana Dakota at Whispering Pines Jukebox for a ride through country classics, modern hits, line dance favorites, outlaw legends, and feel-good western tunes. Whether you're a seasoned cowboy, a country queen, or just looking for a fun time, everyone is welcome!
🐎 Thursday
🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Grid Time
📍 Marluz – Whispering Pines Jukebox
So climb into the saddle, wave your hat high, and let's make the pine trees echo with music, laughter, and a whole lot of YEEHAW!
Ride on over and join the party! 🤠🎵
Teleport:
http://marluztwiztidtimez.co./:8002/Marluz/166/232/22
Dust off your boots, grab your cowboy hat, and saddle up for two hours of the very best Country & Western music!
Join DJ Yana Dakota at Whispering Pines Jukebox for a ride through country classics, modern hits, line dance favorites, outlaw legends, and feel-good western tunes. Whether you're a seasoned cowboy, a country queen, or just looking for a fun time, everyone is welcome!
🐎 Thursday
🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Grid Time
📍 Marluz – Whispering Pines Jukebox
So climb into the saddle, wave your hat high, and let's make the pine trees echo with music, laughter, and a whole lot of YEEHAW!
Ride on over and join the party! 🤠🎵
Teleport:
http://marluztwiztidtimez.co./:8002/Marluz/166/232/22
| | Yana Dakota: 6 Minutes and then we start hop://login.twiztidtimez.com:8002/Marluz/196/174/22 8 days ago |
🤠🌵 YEEHAW, COWPOKES! It's Time to Dust Off Those Boots! 🌵🤠
Well butter my biscuit... The Barn is fixin' to get rowdier than a rodeo with free coffee! 🐴😂
🎸 Adrian Moon is ridin' into Gentle Fire Grid with 2 hours of LIVE Country Classics, guaranteed to get your boots tappin', your hat tippin', and your neighbours wonderin' why you're yee-hawin' at the screen!
📅 Thursday, 6th August
🕛 12 PM – 2 PM (Grid Time)
📍 The Barn – Gentle Fire Grid
🐎 Horse parking? Plenty.
🍺 Cold drinks? You bet.
💃 Dancing? Optional... but after a couple of songs, your boots may have other ideas.
🤠 Fancy dress? The sheriff won't arrest ya if you forget your hat... but he will judge you.
⚠️ Warning: Side effects may include:
Uncontrollable boot scootin'.
Random shouting of "YEEHAW!"
Air guitar solos that nobody asked for.
Attempting to lasso your friends with your mouse cable.
Believing you're the fastest cowboy east of the virtual saloon.
So hitch up your horse (or your laggy old teleport), grab your best cowboy hat, and join us for an afternoon packed with great music, laughs, and good company.
📍 Teleport straight here:
hop://login.gentlefiregrid.net:8002/Nevada/140/83/22
🤠 Remember...
"Save a horse... ride the teleport!"
See y'all at The Barn... where the only thing wilder than the music is the crowd! 🎶🐎🍻
Well butter my biscuit... The Barn is fixin' to get rowdier than a rodeo with free coffee! 🐴😂
🎸 Adrian Moon is ridin' into Gentle Fire Grid with 2 hours of LIVE Country Classics, guaranteed to get your boots tappin', your hat tippin', and your neighbours wonderin' why you're yee-hawin' at the screen!
📅 Thursday, 6th August
🕛 12 PM – 2 PM (Grid Time)
📍 The Barn – Gentle Fire Grid
🐎 Horse parking? Plenty.
🍺 Cold drinks? You bet.
💃 Dancing? Optional... but after a couple of songs, your boots may have other ideas.
🤠 Fancy dress? The sheriff won't arrest ya if you forget your hat... but he will judge you.
⚠️ Warning: Side effects may include:
Uncontrollable boot scootin'.
Random shouting of "YEEHAW!"
Air guitar solos that nobody asked for.
Attempting to lasso your friends with your mouse cable.
Believing you're the fastest cowboy east of the virtual saloon.
So hitch up your horse (or your laggy old teleport), grab your best cowboy hat, and join us for an afternoon packed with great music, laughs, and good company.
📍 Teleport straight here:
hop://login.gentlefiregrid.net:8002/Nevada/140/83/22
🤠 Remember...
"Save a horse... ride the teleport!"
See y'all at The Barn... where the only thing wilder than the music is the crowd! 🎶🐎🍻
| | LeelandvanVeen: When is the next event? I have to find a hat and a horse first ...then I'll join in for the next line dance...my old PC doesn't really like the heat either. Do you have anything by Townes Van Zandt, t... 8 days ago |
Join us for an unforgettable session at the New Landing Point in Alternate Metaverse Grid!
Expect a rich musical journey with rock anthems, romantic ballads, couples’ dance tunes, and high-energy dance tracks to get your heart racing.
Bring your friends, your dance shoes, and your love for great music. Let’s start the day with rhythm, connection, and pure virtual joy.
Hypergrid enabled – everyone is welcome!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...
Expect a rich musical journey with rock anthems, romantic ballads, couples’ dance tunes, and high-energy dance tracks to get your heart racing.
Bring your friends, your dance shoes, and your love for great music. Let’s start the day with rhythm, connection, and pure virtual joy.
Hypergrid enabled – everyone is welcome!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...
| | Aphra Hendrix: ... 8 days ago |
💜In a frenzy of deep tones.💜
Miss Munk will be spinning her wheels of steel at 1 pm grid time, at The Piazza!
Bring your headphones and get on down here and listen to nonstop beat matching and full spectrum sound!
Plug the link into your map and we'll see you there.
http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon
Bring your headphones and get on down here and listen to nonstop beat matching and full spectrum sound!
Plug the link into your map and we'll see you there.
http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon
11 GT — Aestria Beach Club
The renewed sands breathe warm light,
and the sea carries a rhythm older than memory.
Today, DJ Nick shapes the waves into music,
and Host Esti welcomes every wandering soul
to dance where the sky leans close to listen.
Adult‑only, clothing optional —
come as the tide finds you,
and let the morning wind write its story on your skin.
Taxi: hg.gbg-world.com:80:Aestria
The renewed sands breathe warm light,
and the sea carries a rhythm older than memory.
Today, DJ Nick shapes the waves into music,
and Host Esti welcomes every wandering soul
to dance where the sky leans close to listen.
Adult‑only, clothing optional —
come as the tide finds you,
and let the morning wind write its story on your skin.
Taxi: hg.gbg-world.com:80:Aestria
| | Breath: Taxi: hg.gbg-world.com:80:Aestria 12 days ago |
▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ Summer Open Air ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁
▶▷▶ at our Festival Area
back to our roots to Flores Sea Vibes
Sunday/Sonntag 02.August.2026
◕ starts 12:00 OS grid time – startet ab 21:00 Uhr EU
Throwback 90`s – 2000`s – today
Dance Party and Dance House with actual Mashup EDM
good tunes, good vibes, meet nice, open-minded people
Lineup:
live in the mix with DJ TOMI BALBOA & DJ CRAZY ONASIS
Zurück zu unseren Wurzeln nach Flores Sea Vibes
Heute auf unserem Open Air Festival Gelände
Gute Musik, gute Stimmung,
Triff nette, aufgeschlossene Menschen
Adults Only! Nur Erwachsene !
Taxi: hg.osgrid.org:80:FLORES SeaVibes
░░▒▓◙█◙█◙ CC-CLUB ◙█◙█◙▓▒░░
▶▷▶ at our Festival Area
back to our roots to Flores Sea Vibes
Sunday/Sonntag 02.August.2026
◕ starts 12:00 OS grid time – startet ab 21:00 Uhr EU
Throwback 90`s – 2000`s – today
Dance Party and Dance House with actual Mashup EDM
good tunes, good vibes, meet nice, open-minded people
Lineup:
live in the mix with DJ TOMI BALBOA & DJ CRAZY ONASIS
Zurück zu unseren Wurzeln nach Flores Sea Vibes
Heute auf unserem Open Air Festival Gelände
Gute Musik, gute Stimmung,
Triff nette, aufgeschlossene Menschen
Adults Only! Nur Erwachsene !
Taxi: hg.osgrid.org:80:FLORES SeaVibes
░░▒▓◙█◙█◙ CC-CLUB ◙█◙█◙▓▒░░
| | Crazyposeidon: DJ Tomi at the Decks now - back in time Eurodisco Live mix 12 days ago |
HEY HEY HEY! Join us today as we celebrate Harmony's Grid by doing our very best to CRASH IT! That's right, it's a crash test party, and you're invited; everybody and his brother and their sister are invited!! The party starts at 4:pm grid time and the music, provided by yours truly is a 2 hour set. C'mon out and join us and let's have a blast, or more appropriately a CRASH!
login.harmonyshaven.com:8002:Harmonys Haven Welcome
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
login.harmonyshaven.com:8002:Harmonys Haven Welcome
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
| | Jojo and Harmony: Everyone ready??? All my crash test dummies ready to work?? Oh heck no!! No work today, just fun, music....and because you know me so well.....tons of crazy!!! Put on those hard hats...costumes....bik... 14 days ago |
Hold me close
through these bitter days,
where wars keep raging,
anger hardens hearts,
and fear walks beside us.
Hold me close
when hope grows quiet
and the weight of the world
feels too heavy to bear.
Give me the warmth
of your embrace,
the comfort
of your gentle eyes,
and the quiet faith
that love can still outshine
the darkness.
For as long as we hold each other,
even the coldest winter
cannot silence the coming spring
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Halte mich fest
in dieser kalten Zeit,
in der Kriege schreien,
Wut die Herzen verhärtet
und Angst durch die Straßen zieht.
Halte mich fest,
wenn Hoffnung leise wird
und der Himmel schwer
auf unseren Schultern ruht.
Schenk mir die Wärme
deiner Hände,
die Zuversicht
deines Blickes,
und den Glauben,
dass Liebe stärker sein kann
als jeder Hass.
Denn solange wir einander tragen,
ist selbst der längste Winter
nicht das Ende.
https://www.gridtalk.de/attachment.php?aid=12681
through these bitter days,
where wars keep raging,
anger hardens hearts,
and fear walks beside us.
Hold me close
when hope grows quiet
and the weight of the world
feels too heavy to bear.
Give me the warmth
of your embrace,
the comfort
of your gentle eyes,
and the quiet faith
that love can still outshine
the darkness.
For as long as we hold each other,
even the coldest winter
cannot silence the coming spring
.............................................................................................................
Halte mich fest
in dieser kalten Zeit,
in der Kriege schreien,
Wut die Herzen verhärtet
und Angst durch die Straßen zieht.
Halte mich fest,
wenn Hoffnung leise wird
und der Himmel schwer
auf unseren Schultern ruht.
Schenk mir die Wärme
deiner Hände,
die Zuversicht
deines Blickes,
und den Glauben,
dass Liebe stärker sein kann
als jeder Hass.
Denn solange wir einander tragen,
ist selbst der längste Winter
nicht das Ende.
https://www.gridtalk.de/attachment.php?aid=12681
| | Max Hill: This text is beautiful and moving, with powerful poetic imagery that delicately conveys human fragility whilst allowing a message of love and hope to blossom. 13 days ago |
🌴☀️ Oi... where are you hiding tonight? ☀️🌴
The pool's waiting, the tunes are loaded, and the cocktails are getting lonely. 🍹😏
Come cause a little chaos with us at Sexy Naked Beach on the MK3 Grid!
🎧 DJ Adrian Moon LIVE
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Grid Time
Whether you're here to dance like nobody's watching, chill by the pool pretending to be classy, or just people-watch with a drink in hand... we've got you covered.
Expect: 🌴 Tropical vibes
🎶 Proper feel-good tunes
🍹 Drinks flowing
💃 Questionable dance moves
😂 Plenty of laughs
☀️ Summer energy turned up to 11
🚕 Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
Bring your mates... or come make some new ones. Swimwear is recommended... but we all know how Sexy Naked Beach usually goes. 😜
Let's make tonight one of those parties everyone talks about tomorrow... assuming they remember it. 🤣
✨ Great Tunes • Great Banter • Great Company • Endless Summer ✨
See you by the pool... first round of dancing's on you! 🌊🎧🍹🌴
The pool's waiting, the tunes are loaded, and the cocktails are getting lonely. 🍹😏
Come cause a little chaos with us at Sexy Naked Beach on the MK3 Grid!
🎧 DJ Adrian Moon LIVE
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Grid Time
Whether you're here to dance like nobody's watching, chill by the pool pretending to be classy, or just people-watch with a drink in hand... we've got you covered.
Expect: 🌴 Tropical vibes
🎶 Proper feel-good tunes
🍹 Drinks flowing
💃 Questionable dance moves
😂 Plenty of laughs
☀️ Summer energy turned up to 11
🚕 Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
Bring your mates... or come make some new ones. Swimwear is recommended... but we all know how Sexy Naked Beach usually goes. 😜
Let's make tonight one of those parties everyone talks about tomorrow... assuming they remember it. 🤣
✨ Great Tunes • Great Banter • Great Company • Endless Summer ✨
See you by the pool... first round of dancing's on you! 🌊🎧🍹🌴
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