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Urbit is a prank.

• MFLoon 7y ago
  Is it really? It seems like an enormous amount of effort for a prank. 18k commits on the main repo, tens of thousands of words of explanatory blog posts and documentation, etc.
  • lonelappde 7y ago
    Considering the creator, it seems in the vein of Davis's TempleOS. Not a prank, but also not a thing really built for it's utility for the wider world.
  • mjfl 7y ago
    Yup. The creators are a bunch of crazy nihilists.
  • bitwize 7y ago
    That's how you know it was a successful prank: enough people fell for it for enough time to make all those commits and docs! See also postmodernism which I still believe to be long-form trolling by Derrida et al., yet has attracted considerable scholarship and wields enormous influence over culture.