How to Build a Metaverse, Part 2: Avatars Behaving Badly

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When Second Life officially launched in 2003, it had one guiding principle for all new users: Be Nice. But those users showed up with their own ideas about how to behave in a virtual world. In part 2 of How to Build a Metaverse, Linden Lab — the company that created Second Life — wrestles with how to govern its new world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ryan, co-host of the journal.
0:03.7	Our daily show will be back on Monday, but today we're going back into Second Life,
0:08.4	with the next episode in our series How to Build a Metaverse.
0:12.5	If you missed episode one, you'll definitely want to go check that out first.
0:15.5	It's in our feed.
0:16.5	It came out last Friday.
0:18.8	Last week, founder Philip Rosedale and his company Lyndon Lab created Second Life.
0:23.7	A Metaverse where users could do and be whatever they wanted.
0:27.4	It isn't really about what the system's capabilities are, but instead like what it can do for you.
0:33.8	You know what it is for you?
0:36.1	It is a second life that you get to live.
0:40.2	This week, Second Life experiences some growing pains.
0:44.8	Here's producer Annie Minowth.
0:53.9	In Second Life officially launched in 2003, the people who showed up discovered a world
0:59.2	where they could be anyone they wanted.
1:01.6	And many of those early users began reinventing themselves.
1:05.5	Like Nancy Shenkain.
1:07.3	Nancy, the former events planner who we met in episode one, came to Second Life after getting
1:12.2	diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
1:15.3	Life in the physical world was getting harder.
1:18.2	But in Second Life, Nancy could be someone new.
1:22.0	And it wasn't long before she settled on a name for this new someone.
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