Oh wow are you talking about OpenSimulator and hypergrids like OSGrid? I haven’t thought about those in years, I had to look them up again.

As I recall: people reverse-engineered the Second Life communication protocol to make a library to interact with it. Then they made their own viewers/interfaces. Then they made their own second-life-like servers/worlds. Then they made it possible to connect those worlds in grids. This was all open source. I haven’t been following them for a while though.

• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List
• https://wiki.osgrid.org/index.php/Main_Page

ikr Lemmy had and still has some weirdnesses but frankly so do the corporate platforms.

There will be no settlements. Trump owns the supreme court, and will give pardons to those doing what he says.

I always wondered how Venezuela could let its oil-production capacity get so bad, but now I see how. It’s short-term thinking and breaking things to reward loyalists.

Great question. Ideally someone trying to sign up for pixelfed.social say would be automatically shunted over to another instance…

Unless it happens to them, and then it’s not really DEI. /s

Agreed, tho if they grew too fast the pixelfed infrastructure would just die…

ikr lemmy has a little over 40k active users. If you look at the first data point just as the slope starts to rise, that’s where lemmy is by comparison:

Total users is pretty meaningless bc it includes things like users who left and will never return, and bot accounts.

Spez would have been at the inauguration right next to Elon and Bezos if he’d been invited.