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I've been seeing Urbit on here since like 2011, and it's always been style over substance. The broad outlines are great (personal servers), but have been attem
by woah 7y ago
I've been seeing Urbit on here since like 2011, and it's always been style over substance.
The broad outlines are great (personal servers), but have been attempted by many other projects with many other variations, from Sandstorm.io to Blockstack. Urbit is one of many in this category.
The unique thing Urbit brings to the table is their ability to fleece speculators with techno-mystical obscurantism. If Hoon, Nock, etc, are really so superior, why did it take them a almost a full decade to work up to the "my first CRUD app" portrayed here?
- nyolfen 7y agoyou've been able to download urbit and use it for decentralized chat and forum discussions (in an earlier version) via webui since ~2014. this is the first instantiation of something like a full social software suite, but it's also been basically entirely rewritten since the earliest versions.