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Re:OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse by 248ff on Sunday October 31, 2021 @12:22PM (#29058082)
> This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously.

You got your order of events reversed.

In the early days of SL (2003-2007) it was mostly chaos: kinky content, ponzi-schemes, gambling and scams.

It is in this chaos that SL boomed, but sometime close to its peak (2006-2007) the management realized this isn't sustainable (for both legal and business reasons). So, they started to moderate user-content in order to make it more attractive to mainstream-consumers as well as businesses.

And we've seen how that went. Very few are interested.

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Re:OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse by CodeGlitch on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:43PM (#29059749)
Ah fair enough. I just remember those early days they were trying to push the Linden dollar as a way for business to monitize the virtual spaces and objects. It seems to have had a bumpy history.
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