@kaleb Okay, since you seem to be a native French speaker, I think I've got something for you. There's a "project" in OpenSim for people speaking French that's called Francopholie. @Thirza has described it on her HG Safari blog last year.

It has its own grid with AFAIK only one sim where you can go and inform yourself:

francopholie.fr:8000:Francopholie
hop://francopholie.fr:8000/Francopholie/64/86/33
I've also sent you a landmark.

It was relaunched last week, and it's still a bit rough around the edges, but it should be able to help you at least a bit.

Another place you could visit is the main landing sim of the French Atlas grid. Amongst other things, it has another bunch of teleporters that could be useful for you. But put on something warm because it's winter there.

atlasgrid.fr:8002:Atlas

You may also want to follow at least two more French-speaking OpenSim users:

@Acryline :linux: ⏚ is behind the Argentoratum grid (cogito.no-ip.info:8002) and a French OpenSim wiki. She also has a PeerTube channel: @acryline.

And @hicks is one of the creative forces in @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️'s grid Groovyverse.

Otherwise, the main source of information on all things OpenSim is OpenSimWorld. It's mostly a catalogue of sims all around the Hypergrid that can be sorted and filtered.

If you want to meet people, just wandering around like in Second Life won't do it. OpenSim doesn't nearly have Second Life's population density. It has fewer users on more than four times the land area.

So the best way to meet people is to go to an event. OpenSimWorld lists many of these as well. They're usually announced in grid time. That's always the same as SLT. If you're in France, it's 8 hours behind you, and the OpenSimWorld event calendar should assume the correct local time for you.

Just always check a) the description of the event and b) the description of the sim where the event takes place. Some sims and events are in languages other than English or French. And if OpenSimWorld has a red "🅰️" on a sim entry, it means the sim is Adult-rated which may mean the same as in Second Life: You may come across naked avatars or worse.

If everything else fails, this is my main avatar in Dorenas World:
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And this is my spare alt in OSgrid:
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CC: @Cheryl Furse

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