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There was some pressure to get SecondLife open-sourced and federated, but IIRC it didn't really get anywhere. On the other hand, projects like Croquet/Qwak/Cob

There was some pressure to get SecondLife open-sourced and federated, but IIRC it didn't really get anywhere. On the other hand, projects like Croquet/Qwak/Cobalt have been open-source for over a decade; are federated/P2P; already have "hyperlink portals" like parent commented; support existing standards like XMPP, VNC, etc.; have been ported to Javascript; etc. And yet, they seem effectively dead :(

jdrc 5y ago
> to get SecondLife open-sourced and federated That's opensimulator
mintplant 5y ago
The SL client ("viewer") has been open source for a very long time, and there used to be a thriving ecosystem of third-party forks. Nowadays Firestorm [0] is the one everyone uses. The server software remains closed source. OpenSim [1], a community-driven reimplementation with federation support, has been around for a while but as you say hasn't really gone anywhere since the original wave of metaverse hype died down. [0] https://www.firestormviewer.org https://www.firestormviewer.org [1] http://opensimulator.org http://opensimulator.org