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I think part of urbits argument against installing apache and wordpress is: it's hard to maintain by non-sysAdmins and not very portable (in case people want to

by 627467 6y ago

I think part of urbits argument against installing apache and wordpress is: it's hard to maintain by non-sysAdmins and not very portable (in case people want to exit). In theory, urbit can be updated seamlessly through the chain of sponsorship (galaxy > stars > planets) and if a start or planet don't like their sponsor (lord?) they can pack their bags and look for another sponsor (urbit is contained inside a single folder). Maybe an personal server running a single app can have a similar experience (I remember urbit crowd comparing themselves to sandstorm) but it would be harder to migrate (in theory)

cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
These ideas are already being obsoleted as we speak by various edge computing approaches like Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, etc. It's not there yet and these are just the low level building blocks but I'm sure we are getting there, but in a different way. Whereas aforementioned companies are working hard to actually solve people's problems without a pyramid scheme cult, Urbit has been mostly focused on engineering a cult following, so I won't miss them when all of what they are saying they will achieve will be completely obsoleted by a combination of multiple emerging technology trends that are actually useful.