It’s happening. Probably.
The #Fediverse and the #Metaverse will grow another bit closer again.
The #HoloNeon grid has announced that it will create an elaborate, bi-directional connection between the grid and its own (streams) instance. This will actually include the automatic creation of an #OpenSim avatar for each channel created.
I sincerely hope they’ll #OpenSource that development.
Here’s the official announcement:
<img alt=“Aeris Irides” src=“https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photo/a800a6a4-9748-4449-a354-2971feca5b1d-6” height=“32” width=“32” />Aeris Irides wrote the following post Sun, 20 Aug 2023 05:28:06 +0200
We will connect streams federated server to OpenSimulator federated metaverse server.
Objectives:
- create account will happen on streams, account will be created on OpenSimulator server.
- Sync passwords when updated on streams instance.
- Photos marked full perm in OS will show up on streams feed
- Profile photo changed in OS will appear on streams profile and vice-versa
- Notifications (@metions, @replies, @privatemessage, etc) will popup in OS viewer.
A bit of explanation, especially for those of you who don’t know the Fediverse beyond Mastodon and Lemmy:
#Streams is a code repository which contains a Fediverse server application created in 2022 that can be seen as a descendant of the #RedMatrix from 2012 and its successor #Hubzilla (see here) from 2015. While it doesn’t have quite as many features as Hubzilla, it still goes well beyond what Mastodon has to offer and even surpasses Lemmy here and there. It offers #NomadicIdentity which is nothing new; the Red Matrix was created to introduce it, and Hubzilla has it, too.
Since this Fediverse server application is intentionally nameless and brandless, it is usually being referred to by the name of the repository in parentheses: (streams).
Before you ask: Yes, (streams) federates with Mastodon and Lemmy.
And now for those of you who have found this post elsewhere than on Lemmy:
#OpenSimulator, #OpenSim in short (see here), is basically #SecondLife in free, open-source, community-driven, decentralised and federated. So it’s a platform for 3-D #VirtualWorlds.
Unlike so many others, it wasn’t created recently to cash in on the metaverse hype. It has been around since 2007, it has been federated since 2008, and the OpenSim community has been using the term “metaverse” regularly since at least 2010, most likely even longer. It’s also non-commercial at its core, and it probably offers the cheapest land of all virtual worlds.
Holo Neon is one of over 400 known active OpenSim grids (worlds), most of which, like Holo Neon, are connected to each other on the so-called #Hypergrid.
It’s one of only very few which have a #cryptocurrency integrated, and the one that Holo Neon uses can’t be traded for real money. Most grids don’t have any currency at all; some use the grid-overarching Gloebit, some only have “monopoly money” that can’t be traded with real money, and a very few commercial grids have their own currencies.