Toward a free metaverse

Second Life is attractive because of content. Second Life actually is something you can log
into and for all it faults, it works, and has a vibrant culture. It offers a whole host of
content-creation tools. It also has a lot of content creators who create content and either
sell it or give it away. You have subcultures creating anything from virtual architecture,
virtual fashion and streamed in live music. The content makes the system way more attractive
than Croquet. How would I go about actually logging into a Croquet environment? Can I find
anyone there to talk to? Does it look nice? Could someone, say, get a virtual house and buy
virtual fashion?