I joined Second Life back in 2005 or so. For a while I didn’t have a computer that could do it at all so I only played at friends’ houses. Then I had a computer that could do it, but not well, so I got frustrated and gave up on it. Now I’m back, thanks to aleja, and I’m getting more involved! (This is only in the last few days, even.) In fact, I just bought a home. Yup, I’m now a Second Life homeowner, paying RL cash for a virtual plot of land. Oh well, it’s not much. I did always kind of want a home…I was a total vagrant before. Anyway, here are some pictures of my renewed second life.
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I posted this on LambdaMOO. I’ve been on there for 9½ years, and it’s been around for about 16½ years. There was a discussion on a mailing list there that suggested somebody might actually still be interested in researching us. This was my response.

The question of anybody indexing or analyzing us is moot. We are a throwback, and people like new things. The “note to journalists and researchers” on the login screen hasn’t been needed for a while, I would think. Why come on here when Second Life is so much larger, more complex, and more shiny? There aren’t enough people left here for anyone to want to notice or study us. Time and technology have advanced without us.

I know multiple people who have left Lambda behind for There.com and Second Life. The number of people there used to number nearly 3,000 but I think there are fewer than 250 people still active, with about 125 logged in at any given time, and about 50 of those actually active and doing things at any given time. Compare that to the thousands and thousands of people on Second Life - there’s just no contest anymore.