[themikesanto]

I've been following Urbit for years, and honestly I still don't see the use case. It seems like its intended use case is to be a network where you can't disseminate your data across the network unless the "lord" that issued you your address space allows you to do so.

[ineptech]

The use case is that you can host your blog on it and store your bitcoins in it and it won't crash, can't get hacked, and is easy to move from one VM host to another. The network architecture is an implementation detail to get messaging to work reliably, not some kind of ideological statement.

[tern]

The same is true of Facebook, Google, Twitter and your ISP. The difference with Urbit is you can switch providers if you're censored, or reciprocally if you want a censored experience, you can virtually move to somewhere with a blocklist.