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It's a lot closer to facebook than a game. It's basically a building game.

• TheOtherHobbes 9y ago
  It’s basically 80% doll’s house, 20% brothel, where everyone pays rent. The idea isn’t terrible, but the implementation had some horrific flaws, and Linden Labs became notorious for infuriating users. SL might have taken off if both servers and clients were fully open-sourced, and LL had concentrated on building a global system for connecting open servers together. I strongly suspect someone will rediscover the idea 5-10 years from now, do it properly, and replace today’s web.
  • Cthulhu_ 9y ago
    > I strongly suspect someone will rediscover the idea 5-10 years from now, do it properly Very likely, also happening in VR. > and replace today’s web. Not likely. It's just not going to happen. Pretty sure there have been multiple attempts at a 3d internet, but, nope.
    • zerostar07 9y ago
      > also happening in VR. They tried, but so far it has failed to catch on and i predict more of these projects will go abandoned , including second life's own experiment, Sansar. IF anything the side-detour in VR has stalled the progress in virtual worlds for a few years.
    • kazagistar 9y ago
      In already annoyed by the shift of data from text to video. It's so much harder to absorb and skim quickly. 3d internet is harder for content creators, and harder for users to access what they need.
      • dkersten 9y ago
        I wholeheartedly ageee with this. I really dislike videos for content that used to be shared in articles. I can’t always play sound, it’s hard to skim, impossible to search and more difficult to jump to specific content. I really hope that this kind of content never shifts to 3D.
  • zerostar07 9y ago
    There is an open source version of the server called opensimulator , and compatible viewers. There are tons of worlds outside SL : http://opensimworld.com/ http://opensimworld.com/