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> Personally it seems like vaporware to me, there's not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network. > not much based on the lofty pro
by edouerd 6y ago
> Personally it seems like vaporware to me, there's not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network.
> not much based on the lofty promises of a new OS/language/social network.
You can literally set an urbit up and join a not-dead distributed social network right now, this second, in probably less than 3 minutes — it's explicitly not vaporware if people are using it to build thriving communities.
- neuland 6y agoWhere are you getting an Urbit ID in 3 minutes? I am not super familiar with Urbit. But my understanding is that even getting a temporary Urbit ID (a commet) takes hours.
- cmelbye 6y agoI just booted with a new temporary ID and it took 50 seconds to generate the cryptographic key. After 3-4 minutes, Urbit had bootstrapped itself and was accessible over HTTP. You can try with these commands, using Mac in this example: mkdir urbit cd urbit curl -JLO https://urbit.org/install/mac/latest tar zxvf ./darwin.tgz --strip=1 ./urbit -c mycomet
- neuland 6y agoOh cool. I didn't actually try it myself, since I read in the docs that it would take a long time. Good to see it's quick. Urbit looks like a really interesting system with great design underpinnings and philosophy.