#3rdrockgrid — Public Fediverse posts

I'm thinking about posting an in-world picture on May 16th which is Fediverse World Sight Day as well as Global Accessibility Awareness Day. That'd be my first image post in three months. This means the image description should ideally be done until May 15th.

I just don't know what to show yet. It must not contain faces, food or other sensitive elements, otherwise I'd have to link to it rather than embedding it directly into a post. In general, it must not contain any avatars or other depictions of persons because they're too tedious to describe. It should ideally not contain too detailed buildings or more elaborately-crafted plants because they're too hard to describe.

Also, the motive must not be so detail-rich that the post with the image description in it exceeds 50,000 characters due to the long image description. Pleroma and Akkoma reject posts over 50,000 characters, and I have a growing suspicion that at least some Mastodon instances do that, too.

Maybe I can find something in 3rd Rock Grid which is scheduled to shut down on May 15th after some 16 years of operation. However, only one picture wouldn't do the third-oldest grid in the Hypergrid justice, one chosen mostly with simplicity of the scenery in mind even less. Also, I don't think I want to prepare multiple posts with one image each, seeing as it'd take me about one day to describe each image. And multiple images in one post would inflate the post to sizes that will be rejected by entire Fediverse projects.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #3rdRockGrid #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay

Always interesting to look at the monthly #OpenSimulator stats from #HypergridBusiness.

For example, #OSgrid, the oldest and biggest grid, has once again managed to grow larger than #SecondLife. OSgrid reported 29,770 standard regions; the most recent number from Second Life are 27,813 regions as per September 10th.

Only one more #grid measures over 20,000 standard regions, over 25,000 even, and that's the #WolfTerritoriesGrid (25,504 standard regions). Now, while all of OSgrid except for the official sims is hosted by its respective owners and attached to the grid for free, the #WolfGrid is entirely owned by @Lone Wolf and offered as paid rentals. Long ago, when the grid wasn't nearly as big yet, he said you'd have to be a millionnaire to own so much land in Second Life.

#Kitely (18,301 standard regions) is almost as big as all Second Life Private Estates (18,380) put together.

Add #ZetaWorlds (10,386 standard regions) with its massive sailable grid-owned ocean, and you've got four grids which altogether have three times Second Life's landmass. And the top 38 grids on the #Hypergrid that report their stats to Hypergrid Business are a bit over 440% as big as Second Life.

The second-oldest grid, #3rdRockGrid, has shrunk by about 30%. Should I be worried?

One more detail: #TheGridThatShallNotBeNamed is back in the stats. Maybe it wasn't shut down after all. Interestingly, it ranks 9th in active users (1,121), but 34th in land mass (209 standard regions). As the active users include Hypergrid visitors, this might be a case of bile fascination after the Hypergrid connection was re-established. If not, it says a lot about the target audience of this grid.

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:48:35 +0200 at
https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2023/09/opensim-hypergriddable-land-area-up-to-a-new-all-time-high/

#OpenSim #OpenSimStatistics #Statistics #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds