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Hypergrid and viewer login: novalandia.online:9000
What the heck is novalandia.online?
NVO is an OpenSim grid hosted by Valerie on an array of processor threads on a single machine, a place that is part surreal liminality, and part strange alien world called Phyria.
I created NVO because, although I like the many places available to visit across the HyperGrid, I wanted my own place, my own architecture, and less AI generated imagery plastered absolutely all over everything. You know, kind of like how Second Life was back in 2010 before it became a hyper-capitalist shopping simulator.
Although the grid is only about 28 regions for now, there is always room to expand.
What's a hypergrid?
Unlike Second Life, OpenSim exists across a vast network of servers connected to each other that all host their own simulators and regions, and you can hop between them with a single avatar, no matter where you created it! It's kind of like Mastodon, but Second Life.
This means that Linden Labs has no control over anything happening here, and they can't charge you for every single little thing you do.
Why would I want this, rather than Second Life?
As mentioned above, Second Life is a pale shadow of what it used to be. A social world of creation that's been turned into a place controlled and manipulated by rent seekers. People who yearn to make profit no matter the cost, and no matter who they harm in the process.
OpenSim is free, and so is everything in it.
How can I support the efforts of NVO and help it remain online or upgrade?
You can always subscribe to my general Patreon where I post all things that I do, including updates to the NVO grid.