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Question for the Urbit devs (when they get done celebrating and come in here to answer the questions, and sigh in dismay at the inevitable Nth round of hn-yarvi
by urbitthrow235 7y ago
Question for the Urbit devs (when they get done celebrating and come in here to answer the questions, and sigh in dismay at the inevitable Nth round of hn-yarvin's-bashing):
In theory, it should be really easy to write a social media app in Urbit. I mean, that's kind of what it's designed for, right, to make it easy and secure to do the sorts of server-side use cases that we currently off-load to Facebook and Twitter and such?
So, where is it? I don't mean a legit FB/IG/TW/etc challenger, I just mean a toy proof of concept in which I can 'add' an urbit identity, 'share' a piece of text, and they would see it in their feed.
I know the easy answer is, "Why don't you write one?" Well, I'm a mediocre programmer and I already have a side project. This isn't me demanding that open source software be written for me; this is me asking, if the PoC social media site for urbit doesn't exist yet, does that mean that it's harder to make than a superficial understanding of the project would suggest?
- lukebuehler 7y ago> In theory, it should be really easy to write a social media app in Urbit. Did you read the post? Have you looked at OS1? This is literally what OS1 is; it allows you to create groups which share notes, links, and chats. You get notifications in the dashboard if anything happens in any of the groups you are part of.