The Real Truth About Second Life’s Number of User Accounts

Two identical Second Life avatars, pointing at each other, each claiming the oher one is an impostor.

More observant readers might have noticed that the image in this article dates back from the summer of… 2010. That’s right, it’s 15 years old! And back then, this author already warned: the known number of Second Life resident accounts is overinflated, simply because there are so many ‘bots around,

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Sansar: How to disappoint users to let them go back to Second Life

Project Sansar

There is a rumour being spread by some residents close to Linden Lab employees (‘anonymous sources’) that the whole point of Sansar was not to create a new virtual world and pull residents out of the obsolete and impossible-to-maintain Second Life. After all, this would make no sense: the whole

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