| These knee-jerk responses are lame. - IDs stop the spam problem and give people control over something that keeps its reputation (and they're cheap). - Federated systems normally suck because administering the servers and keeping decentralized versions in sync is hard. Urbit's design fixes this. - Encrypted by default, ability to be as easy to run as FB (eventually, not right now). Peer to peer with the address space and key issues solved from first principles. - Stability over long time horizons due to design (goal being indefinite), the urbit abstraction layer doesn't change and state can always be recomputed - changing pieces are implemented via jets to communicate with whatever underlying OS is doing the normal stuff. It's a clever design and solves a lot of problems with modern computing, people often dismiss it out of hand because Yarvin's politics are stupid (he's no longer involved in the project and hasn't been for some time). Peter Thiel's Trump support was stupid too, but that doesn't mean he doesn't get a lot of other stuff right. https://urbit.org/blog/the-understanding-urbit-podcast/ |