There are multiple grids other than Second Life and the Lindens, in their shortsighted grasping for profit, are doing their best to ensure people go out to explore them. OS Grid is one, Avination is another, but there are more as well.
There was a recent masterstroke from the Lindens in which they made it a violation of the TOS (Terms of Service) for anyone to do business with a third-party money exchanger. Obviously they want to get a piece of every financial transaction but the consequence is that business owners will simply leave. This was the case with a quite large development from Second Life fairly recently and the reason for the migration to Avination was specifically the change to the TOS.
OS Grid is not as developed as Avination but it has its charms. You will need the Imprudence viewer to go into that world but you will find it is very little different from Second Life in what you need to know to use it. While there is no economy in OS Grid, if you're just making music for the joy of the sound, that won't matter.
Avination has a full-blown economy with roughly the same exchange rate as Second Life. It is also quite well-developed in other regards although shopping, products, etc, are nowhere near as extensive as SL. However, it's well beyond a start-up exercise as it's already got animated animals, etc.
The above is a hummingbird in-flight and it's one example of many of the sophistication of the development within Avination.
Other than the economic aspects, one of the biggest reasons for pushing out of Second Life is the overall restrictiveness. For example, there is still the mindset regarding music that only acoustic music is 'pure' and this kind of stupidity doesn't fly anywhere in the Universe ... except in Second Life. That most acoustic guitars have electric pick-ups built into them apparently isn't well-understood by the simplistic thinkers who own the venues that promote such attitudes.
The destructiveness of such restrictive thinking within the Second Life world is obvious but less immediate is that it impedes the growth of Second Life as a whole by limiting music to a form that no-one from real life would ever go out of his or her way to hear. The Second Life population stopped growing years ago and this is not likely to change as it's logically impossible to have an open world in which people simultaneously impose arbitrary restrictions. It may well be that Second Life is already so typecast with provincial attitudes toward music that this reputation cannot be overcome.
The above and many other concerns give reason to explore other grids and that has been the basis for going to Avination which I have found to be quite a bit of fun. Leave the trolls, the drama queens, and the pinheads behind and give it a try sometime!
There was a recent masterstroke from the Lindens in which they made it a violation of the TOS (Terms of Service) for anyone to do business with a third-party money exchanger. Obviously they want to get a piece of every financial transaction but the consequence is that business owners will simply leave. This was the case with a quite large development from Second Life fairly recently and the reason for the migration to Avination was specifically the change to the TOS.
OS Grid is not as developed as Avination but it has its charms. You will need the Imprudence viewer to go into that world but you will find it is very little different from Second Life in what you need to know to use it. While there is no economy in OS Grid, if you're just making music for the joy of the sound, that won't matter.
Avination has a full-blown economy with roughly the same exchange rate as Second Life. It is also quite well-developed in other regards although shopping, products, etc, are nowhere near as extensive as SL. However, it's well beyond a start-up exercise as it's already got animated animals, etc.
The above is a hummingbird in-flight and it's one example of many of the sophistication of the development within Avination.
Other than the economic aspects, one of the biggest reasons for pushing out of Second Life is the overall restrictiveness. For example, there is still the mindset regarding music that only acoustic music is 'pure' and this kind of stupidity doesn't fly anywhere in the Universe ... except in Second Life. That most acoustic guitars have electric pick-ups built into them apparently isn't well-understood by the simplistic thinkers who own the venues that promote such attitudes.
The destructiveness of such restrictive thinking within the Second Life world is obvious but less immediate is that it impedes the growth of Second Life as a whole by limiting music to a form that no-one from real life would ever go out of his or her way to hear. The Second Life population stopped growing years ago and this is not likely to change as it's logically impossible to have an open world in which people simultaneously impose arbitrary restrictions. It may well be that Second Life is already so typecast with provincial attitudes toward music that this reputation cannot be overcome.
The above and many other concerns give reason to explore other grids and that has been the basis for going to Avination which I have found to be quite a bit of fun. Leave the trolls, the drama queens, and the pinheads behind and give it a try sometime!
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