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#AvatarLife is a #grid based on #OpenSimulator (see also the official wiki/website and Hypergrid Business).

#OpenSim itself is absolutely legit. It's a free and open-source re-implementation of the technology of #SecondLife, created in 2007, and largely compatible with Second Life viewers. It serves as the technological base for over 400 grids, most of which are inter-connected in the so-called #Hypergrid, including large ones such as non-commercial OSgrid or commercial Kitely.

Avatar Life looks like someone wanted to jump upon the "#Metaverse get-rich-quick scheme" bandwagon and launch yet another 3-D virtual world with a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs, even more so by offering in-world crypto-gambling. But developing a virtual world platform would have been too costly and taken too much time. So they took OpenSim which is free-of-charge to use and at least tried to bolt a cryptocurrency onto it.

Two things are interesting. One, they offer free land. That's only logical. Look at Second Life land prices. Look at what you pay for a standard region. Most OpenSim grids offer you a standard region with a whopping 15,000 prims for around $10/month. The only way to beat this is by offering free land.

Two, they claim that Avatar Life is connected to the Hypergrid. In theory, it is. In practice, they seem to have blocked all other grids. It's impossible to get there. The Hypergrid connection claim is only there to gain people's trust and whet their appetites and to eventually get them to create an avatar on Avatar Life.

Avatar Life brazenly advertises their sims on OpenSimWorld which is only allowed for sims which can be reached from the Hypergrid. But I've yet to hear of one grid whose avatars are allowed to enter Avatar Life.

I think "fishy" doesn't begin to describe this.

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