Effectively having a cool little multicade on Tilemap Town (because my minigame bot can have the selected game switched around) is making me think again about how cool it'd be to have a little multicade on #SecondLife.
On SL I really like the idea of having a lot of gameplay available without taking up many building resources, so you can easily fit a game alongside other stuff. And if it's multiple games that's even cooler.
That said, if I'm actually hanging out with people on my land I can just, you know, manually pick up a game and put another one down. Something fancy that can switch out the game only really matters for wandering visitors, and thanks to my monitoring stuff I know for a fact I don't get those.
But it'd be really cool and that's reason enough most of the time.
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tumblr recently tried to make "tumblr live" a thing. Something about live video hangouts. The users hated the idea, didn't want to use it and complained. They did it anyway. It filled up with porn cams, and scammers. Many users use extensions to hide the "feature" as well as to fix long standing simple problems with tumblr.
Tumblr is a company and they need to make money. I get why they thought that maybe if they had video they could start growing again.
A counterexample to the "infinite growth" paradigm is, IMO, #SecondLife:
It's not a typical social network, had it's exponential growth and hype more than 20 years ago, then fell out of the public eye, but it's still there: A place, where people can be creative, live their dreams and mingle with like-minded others.
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As I hope you've already discovered, the Fediverse is nothing like Twitter/𝕏. There is no algorithm automatically forwarding your posts to those who might be interested in them. Also, even though Mastodon has introduced full-text search, it's only slowly picking up.
Instead, the key to post visibility and discoverability is using hashtags.
If you're using OpenSim, and you aren't sure what to tag, here are some recommendations. If I mention a tag explicitly, it most likely already exists.
First of all, of course, #OpenSimulator and #OpenSim. You may use either, but I recommend using both.
Then there's #Metaverse. The OpenSim community has used that word for some 15 years already. Besides, it helps demonstrate three things to those who search for it. One, "The Metaverse" isn't dead. Two, it wasn't invented by Zuckerberg either. Three, it can be done and has been done without a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs. (If you want to write about Zuck's worlds, use #Horizons or specifically #HorizonWorlds instead.)
I myself also use #VirtualWorlds, and so do some Second Life and OpenSim users.
If you write about a grid or mention it sufficiently, tag it. #OSgrid, #Kitely, #3rdRockGrid, #Groovyverse, #CraftWorld, #Bridgemere, #DorenasWorld, #Dereos, #ArtDestiny, #DiscoveryGrid, #BarefootDreamers, #Neverworld, #Astralia, #AviWorlds, #EtheriaGrid, #TheGridThatShallNotBeNamed (you know which one I mean) etc. This should include dead grids such as #Metropolis.
Sometimes things might get complicated, for example if there's a popular abbreviation or acronym for a grid. In that case, feel free to tag e.g. both #AlternateMetaverse and #AMV or both #GreatCanadianGrid and #GCG. It really only gets complicated with #WolfTerritories, #WolfTerritoriesGrid, #WTGrid and #WolfGrid, all four of which have been used by Lone Wolf himself.
In addition, if you actually write about a grid, you might want to use #Grid. Not so much for fleeting mentions.
Of course, #Hypergrid if you mention that.
Events usually come with their own official suggestions for social media hashtags. This year, for example, we've already had #OSG16B for OSgrid's 16th birthday, #OSFest2023 for OpenSimFest (#OpenSimFest or #OSFest) and #HIE2023 for the Hypergrid International Expo (#HypergridInternationalExpo, #HIE or #HIEOpenSim). The OpenSimulator Community Conference is always shortened to #OSCC, and the year is always two-digit, e.g. #OSCC23. And let's not forget #CornflakesWeek.
Other things worth tagging include OpenSim's own mesh bodies: #RuthAndRoth for the whole project, #Ruth2 and #Roth2. #RuthToo and #RothToo or even #RuthTooRC3 and #RothTooRC1. #LuvMyBod. #Max, #Maxine and #Maxwell.
Some more examples for OpenSim-related tags I've used before: #OAR, #HGSafari, #MadeInOpenSim, #ArcadiaAsylum, #LbsaPlaza, #WrightPlaza, #EventPlaza, #Clutterfly, #OpenSimWorld, #BakesOnMesh (feel free to yoink this one, Second Life users), #FirestormViewer (ditto), #PBR (ditto), #LSL (ditto) and #OSSL, #ZHAO (ditto) and #khAOs, #SFposer, #DreamGrid, #Sim, #SimBuilding (good for talking about how a sim is built)... You could also reference what I call #TheGreatGridDyingOf2022.
More generally, there are tags such as #Avatar/#Avatars, #VirtualArchitecture, #VirtualTravel and #VirtualClothing/#VirtualFashion. And if it's related to education, #VirtualWorldsEducation would be the tag.
Today's stunning #SecondLife#PicoftheDay is a #DayOfTheDead tribute captured by Nubyia, celebrating the vibrancy of life and embracing the beautiful legacy left by loved ones no longer with us. 🌹
๖̶̶̶ۣۣۜۜ͜ζ͜͡hŘĭŠ ŃĭĜħŦfÎřĒ (tactical.nightfire) is a troll who spends his days harassing mostly women. Best to avoid him and possibly block him, added to banlists. #SecondLife
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Went ahead and put my knockoff Dippin' Dots vending machine next to the actual road, using anchoring. And it's anchored to... a picture of Sherbet, behind the ice cream counter. That fixes the weirdness of having an ice cream counter with no one behind it, yet not being oriented in a way that suggests it's for self-serve.
Could be fun to put an actual ice cream cart by the road someday like I wanted to back when I was getting excited about getting SL land originally, but I'm happy with a vending machine like this! It feels unobtrusive but I'm still putting my mark on a public road in a fun way.