Anyone on Mastodon already? Or elsewhere in the Fediverse? I know some of you are, I've already got almost two dozen contacts from OpenSim. Mal Burns is already there, the maker of Inworld Review, as are Austin Tate a.k.a. Ai Austin, the maintainer of Ruth2 and Roth2 with a separate account for his avatar, and vrsimility who rebuilds Liverpool's Old Dock in OpenSim (in case you've seen it at OSCC21), just to name a few.

If you consider the switch from the Birdsite to the Fediverse, or if you generally want to dive into free and decentral social networking, I've got good news for you:

There is now a Mastodon instance for OpenSim users: https://opensim.world/

In spite of its name, I don't think it's that affiliated with OSW, maybe not yet. It comes from Quintonia, you know, who brought you the Satyr Farm enhancements.

So this may be a better place for you to go than the big and overloaded instances if you're an OpenSim user.

Anyway, whether you're already there or interested in joining, see you soon!

Well, after a 10 year vacation from SL, I thought I'd go visit. But I've heard that using Firestorm for SL and Firestorm for OS will mess up my preferences. Is that true? And if so, how do I avoid it?

Also, the picture has nothing to do with me or the question. I just think it's cute :)

Immersion Island presented a whimsical Metaverse virtual "Tribute" production celebrating the best holiday season of any year with a tribute to the time-honored "Macy's " Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Now open to the public.
Anvil Island @Kitely.com
hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/ANVIL-Island/490/459/602
Music:
http://23.160.194.63:8000/webby

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgZilKL4SKs

Part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-yym8TJgc

Shandon's Alices Restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXYzM3itD8c

This little slice of Japan from KDJ is well built and a pleasure to explore. With its Japanese themed buildings, amazing street scenes and walk ways the visitor never tires of all the intricate detail that has gone into this build.

This region is KDJ's personal region but there are plans for a club and a forest area too. Incidentally, if you need a DJ then contact Dariaa Zaritskaya who can prepare a set especially for your events.

Check out her music stream at http://2.58.194.54:8046/

Weblink: https://mixlive.ie/stream/kdj-radio/

NEW Tattoos arrived!!!!
You can find new BOM Tattoos at our skymall.
The Tattoos are most Unisex!
Just come to the Welcome and look for the Teleporters to the skymall.
One is at the landingpoint and at every side of the stairs is another one.
BTW we update the skymall as often we can.
Have fun shopping!!!

The Mare- Team

Monentes Jewelry is open again with Holiday Jewelry in a cozier building. I will be adding new seasonal pieces through the Holiday. We are open
virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

*** NEW RELEASE ***

****Men's & Ladies Padded Ski Jackets ****

Available in 8 colors to choose from

Ladies Can be found inside the RRD Mall in the new Winter Wear Store.

Men's can be found outside of the Mall in the Large Men's Fashions store.

Hey, That's Not My Profile Picture!
Well, it is now! At least for use on my regions' visitor boards. The boards ordinarily show the profile pictures of the last two visitors. But if someone doesn't have a profile picture, an extra special one shows up on the boards. Now, if you would like help getting an authentic profile picture, let me know. In the mean time, your profile picture on Xinashi is going to be pretty darn goofy.

Xinashi: Where everyone gets a profile picture, whether they want one or not. :)
grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Xinashi

https://mashable.com/article/tuvalu-metaverse-country-clim...

Anyone else thinking this could be a use case for OpenSim? A Tuvalu Grid?

Tuvalu is 9 islands with 10 square kilometres altogether. In raw land mass, that'd be 10 4x4 varsims which is almost laughable. Even if you remap this to Tuvalu's actual topography, that'd be not only still considerably smaller than Wolf Territories, but mostly sailable water.

In fact, this begs for SFsail. Also, lots of tropical beaches = potential surf spots. Nothing that hasn't been done before.

Not to mention that OpenSim has vastly better graphics than everything else that labels itself "metaverse" nowadays.

I guess most other in-world assets such as buildings would be scratch-made, although creators like Bibiana Bombinante could provide some decoration.

Icky Thump LIVE

♥─ICKY THUMP LIVE─♥
♥Where: ICKY's PLACE, WICKED WAVES
♥ When: Tuesday NOON
♥Host: Faith
Dress CODE | Casual

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Wicked Waves/402/611/23

◂◄◀ TEMPTING TUESDAY ▶►▸
FEATURING - DJEMBE DRAGONFIRE
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴1:00p ∵∴ ❈
» Шhere: ✫ CATE'S COFFEE HOUSE ✫
» Шhat: • LIVE VOCALIST •
◂◄◀ MAP ▶►▸ login.newhopegrid.com:8002:Cates

Come join us for this amazing vocalist! Djembe perform a wide variety of songs and music from pop to broadway to jazz. You won't be disappointed!