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For anybody else with no idea what Urbit is, here’s the Wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit IMO it s
by 542458 5y ago
For anybody else with no idea what Urbit is, here’s the Wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit
IMO it sounds interesting, but the internet is littered with interesting decentralized protocols that never went anywhere. There’s a real question of “can they build a killer app”?
- busymom0 5y agoI watched their video but came out pretty confused as it seemed a bit too beyond my tech skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc
- 542458 5y agoThat’s similar to my feeling too. I’m sure the technology is neat, but it seems very esoteric and hard to get started with.
- user-the-name 5y agoIt is just intentionally esoteric for the sake of being esoteric, not for any technical reason. It exists to make its creator feel smugly superior, not to solve any real problems for actual people.