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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by KennyBlanken on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:19PM (#28934932)
> Most virtual land is leased to individuals, and the leaseholder can eject or ban annoying visitors.

> Second Life is about the size of Greater London.

Both these statements are directly contradicted by https://secondlife.com/land/ which says land is bought from LindenLabs and that SL is not fixed in size but they continuously add more "land" with new users, so anyone can buy land themselves. Premium users get 1000 square meters free.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by Animats on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:20PM (#28935916)
Linden Lab uses the term "buy" in promotional material, but it's really software as a service, hosted at AWS-West-2, and there's an ongoing monthly charge.

Second Life Main Grid size as of 17 Oct 2021 is 1786.64 square kilometers.[1] The area of Greater London is 1,572 square kilometers.[2] The number of regions changes slightly from day to day, but not by much.

[1] http://gridsurvey.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London

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