Yeah I'm seeing all kinds of weird analogies/ abstractions that try to explain what this thing is but not a single use-case or an example of somebody getting utility out of it. Is this a parody?
Use case: this conversation, except between our own computers.
Typically, we 'log in' to 'our accounts' on some company's server and use whatever fuctions the company grants us.
They are not really our accounts in any meaningful way.
If one were to be banned by hackernew(or twitter), she would have no access to her data, social connections, et c.
In the urbit world, any data you have authored and any messages you have received are YOURS. They are forever available on your own server.
It is simply not possible for 3rd parties to ban/delete/control your conversation, when the model is peer to peer.
"How would one party prove they have the right data?"
Before two urbit servers communicate, they exchange and verify public signing keys.
Then, all messages are signed with verified public key.
If you mean what's stopping one party from changing their local copy of your data.... Nothing that I know of.
But they're the only ones who will see their local data.
Typically, we 'log in' to 'our accounts' on some company's server and use whatever fuctions the company grants us. They are not really our accounts in any meaningful way.
If one were to be banned by hackernew(or twitter), she would have no access to her data, social connections, et c.
In the urbit world, any data you have authored and any messages you have received are YOURS. They are forever available on your own server.
It is simply not possible for 3rd parties to ban/delete/control your conversation, when the model is peer to peer.