One of my top sources of OpenSim-related news this year has been OpenSim Virtual and similar Google Plus communities. Many grids also have Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, but I find that Google Plus offers a really convenient way to keep track of what’s going on across the metaverse.
So, for the benefit of people interested in finding out about what’s happening in the grids, and for event organizers and content creators and others looking to raise visibility, here are some places to get started.
Largest multi-grid communities
- OpenSim Virtual: 1,973 members
- The Adult Metaverse: 1,480 members
- OpenSim Everything: 556 members
- Content creators of the virtual worlds: 509 members
- Hypergrid Safari: 501 members
- Hypergrid Events: 470 members
- Virtual Destinations: 467 members
- Hypergrid & OpenSimulator Stuff: 458 members
- OpenSim Collection: 458 members
- Metaverse Week in Review: 450 members
- Opensim Free Resources: 408 members
- Blender for OpenSim: 402 members
Communities that grew the most in 2017
- Metaworld News gained 1,272 new members
- Virtual Destinations gained 467 new members
- Opensim Life Regions gained 123 new members
- Opensimulator DreamWorld gained 109 new members
- Metaverse Authors gained 103 new members
- Hypergrid & OpenSimulator Stuff gained 97 new members
- Hypergrid International Expo gained 95 new members
- Gloebit on OpenSim gained 76 new members
- OpenSim (Japanese) gained 76 new members
- Opensim Free Resources gained 72 new members
Largest single grid Google Plus communities
- OSgrid.org, 880 members
- Kitely Virtual, 655 members
- Metropolis Metaversum, 364 members
- DigiWorldz, 309 members
- InWorldz, 292 members
- Francogrid, 252 members
Largest multi-platform communities
- Second Life and other Virtual Worlds: 2,256 members
- Metaworld News: 1,272 members
- Virtual Identity: 926 members
- Arts in Virtual Worlds: 622 members
- Virtual World Video: 508 members
- Virtual Pedagogy: 478 members
- Metaverse Week in Review: 450 members
- Free 3D: 447 members
- Practical Uses for Virtual Worlds: 432 members
- Virtual World Blogs: 425 members
The full list of communities is here.
Other social media grid links:
- 3rd Life Grid: Facebook, Google Plus
- 3rd Rock Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- The Adult Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Alife Virtual: Facebook, Google Plus
- AllCity: Facebook
- AnSky: Facebook
- Atek Grid: Facebook, Google Plus
- Avination: Facebook
- AviUnite: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- AviWorlds: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Baller Nation: Facebook, Google Plus
- Chimerus: Facebook
- Craft World: Facebook, Google Plus
- DigiWorldz: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Discovery Grid: Facebook, Google Plus
- Encore Escape: Facebook, Twitter
- Eureka World: Facebook
- FrancoGrid: Facebook
- Genesis Global Journey: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Genesis MetaVerse: Facebook, Google Plus
- Great Canadian Grid: Facebook
- GreekLife: Facebook
- InWorldz: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Island Oasis: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- JokaydiaGrid: Facebook, Twitter
- Kitely: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Konk Combat Grid, Google Plus
- Littlefield: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Logicamp: Facebook
- Lost World, Google Plus
- Mobius Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- My Virtual Community: Facebook, Google Plus
- Naras Nook: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Nextlife World: Facebook
- OpenSim Life: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Origins: Facebook
- OSgrid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Osirus: Facebook
- Panthera Grid: Facebook, Google Plus
- Party Destination Grid: Facebook
- R.World, Google Plus
- Rev World: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Sacrarium: Facebook, Twitter
- Sinful Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Sunlight: Facebook, Twitter
- Tangle Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- The Public World: Facebook
- Time Paradox, Google Plus
- Virtual Brasil, Google Plus
- Virtual Highway: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- Virtual Life Brasil: Facebook, Twitter
- Virtual Worlds Grid: Facebook
- Virtuality Grid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- World 3D: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- ZanGrid: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus
- ZetaWorlds, Twitter
If there’s a community missing, please email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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