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It does seem niche to me, but I’m not sure I understand it at first glance. It feels a bit abstract. Is there an explanation for someone with no context or expe
by throwawaysea 6y ago
It does seem niche to me, but I’m not sure I understand it at first glance. It feels a bit abstract. Is there an explanation for someone with no context or expertise?
- Dylan16807 6y agoI don't know the location of any particularly good explanations, but I'd explain it as one part start-from-scratch distributed/federated computing environment, one part community rebuilding an ecosystem and new internet on top of that environment, and one part performance art by making everything different as if plucked from a parallel universe that diverged at the dawn of computing.
- fossuser 6y agoThis is a pretty good one: https://www.hyperstition.al/post/urbit-an-introduction/ https://www.hyperstition.al/post/urbit-an-introduction/ There's also a podcast called Understanding Urbit that's a decent introduction.