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yikes. first you give me the "all is good in urbit, you cannot get abused, you are a free spirit"-vibe and then: "The ability to escape to other infra nodes (s
by mlatu 4y ago
yikes. first you give me the "all is good in urbit, you cannot get abused, you are a free spirit"-vibe and then:
"The ability to escape to other infra nodes (stars) provide incentives for those nodes not to abuse routing (similar to pressure against an ISP) or they’ll get a bad reputation."
you can move accounts on mastodon too... sure urbit is more like an os ontop everything else while mastodon is just an application amid everything else. but... it reads like cognitive dissonance right there.
- gonehome 4y agoOn mastodon you’re just an account on someone else’s server (except for the extreme minority that run their own server). On urbit every user is also their own ‘server’ - there’s no distinction between account and server. Infra nodes just do public key lookups and route encrypted traffic. As far as abuse risk - you have to design the system to be resilient to it. People behave based on the incentives the design allows. That’s why the web and other federated systems centralize. Urbit is explicitly designed to fix these underlying issues.