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why is this being downvoted? i have no idea what urbit was and this was the only helpful, non-political comment in this thread.
by devmunchies 8y ago
why is this being downvoted? i have no idea what urbit was and this was the only helpful, non-political comment in this thread.
- yebyen 8y agoThese (handful of) Urbit threads are the only place I see this happen on HN. People here just hate him. The last time I was in one of these threads, it was "no platform for fascists." Now that he's leaving, I wonder what the angle is supposed to be? And... it's flagged off the front page!
- nyolfen 8y agothis is probably a major part of why he's leaving, so his presence can't be used as ammo by detractors. it always seemed like a major weak point for the project to me; you can tell they've been trying very hard to avoid any related subject in interviews etc
- yebyen 8y agoSo, maybe a minor victory this was flagged? I don't think that, but it is what it is? (I think the post is great, I've only read 2/3 of it, but pretty on message. Feel like I only just got to the technical part...)
- theamk 8y agobecause it is factually incorrect? The system is not "serverless", it is just the opposite -- it is a "personal server", an application you have to run. To quote the primer, > Most people park their ship in the cloud. If you prefer to host yourself, your ship can live on a laptop, a phone, even a USB stick. (yes, "park your ship" means "store and run your file" in urbit)