@kaleb Technically, yes.

But they aren't fully connected to the Hypergrid. Either they don't let anyone from the Hypergrid in. Or they're fully disconnected, and all their claims to be in the Hypergrid are blatant lies.

The whole grid is pretty shady, truth be told. Just ignore it.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #AvatarLife
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#AvatarLife is a #grid based on #OpenSimulator (see also the official wiki/website and Hypergrid Business).

#OpenSim itself is absolutely legit. It's a free and open-source re-implementation of the technology of #SecondLife, created in 2007, and largely compatible with Second Life viewers. It serves as the technological base for over 400 grids, most of which are inter-connected in the so-called #Hypergrid, including large ones such as non-commercial OSgrid or commercial Kitely.

Avatar Life looks like someone wanted to jump upon the "#Metaverse get-rich-quick scheme" bandwagon and launch yet another 3-D virtual world with a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs, even more so by offering in-world crypto-gambling. But developing a virtual world platform would have been too costly and taken too much time. So they took OpenSim which is free-of-charge to use and at least tried to bolt a cryptocurrency onto it.

Two things are interesting. One, they offer free land. That's only logical. Look at Second Life land prices. Look at what you pay for a standard region. Most OpenSim grids offer you a standard region with a whopping 15,000 prims for around $10/month. The only way to beat this is by offering free land.

Two, they claim that Avatar Life is connected to the Hypergrid. In theory, it is. In practice, they seem to have blocked all other grids. It's impossible to get there. The Hypergrid connection claim is only there to gain people's trust and whet their appetites and to eventually get them to create an avatar on Avatar Life.

Avatar Life brazenly advertises their sims on OpenSimWorld which is only allowed for sims which can be reached from the Hypergrid. But I've yet to hear of one grid whose avatars are allowed to enter Avatar Life.

I think "fishy" doesn't begin to describe this.
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Logged an alt into @SecondLife and found a spam from a #SecondLife competitor called #AvatarLife. Looked at it on Tor browser, and Avatar Life looks like a crypto scam. Hard pass.

A vlogger posted a video about exploring a gaming platform called #Avatarlife. First impression is not good seeing that game being rife with copybotted content from #SecondLife. Second impression is doubly no good when Norton tells me their site is plain bad news: https://imgur.com/a/Z0oKNyt

Thanks, #Norton for saving my computer.

(Here's the video: https://youtu.be/NVTAFI6QmCc)

#metaverse #virtualreality #mmorpg #antivirus

AVATARLIFE is no good

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@mikamisra My #opensim time is split between #OSGrid and #Digiworldz . #avatarlife is a good gaming grid. List of grids can be found at https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/statistics/active-grids/
Active OpenSim Grids – Hypergrid Business