Urbit

Are any other lainons on Urbit? I'm ~motluc-nammex. Feel free to post your @p and chat about Urbit

Forgot urbit existed I experimented with it like 2 years ago but never really used it

Sometimes go there. I'm ~rislet-dinbet.

>>74317 I saw your message! Happy to see other lainurs

You could as well elaborate on how to use this soykaf. The guides on their site are lame and don't even explain how the soykaf work at all. I mean, how the servers interact, how the whole infrastructure in managed and so on. In case of tor and i2p there is at least some damn readable documentation.

>>73906 This says it all fren >https://odysee.com/@Emily-Youcis:4/URBITFINAL:3

>>74328 >elaborate on how to use this soykaf Go to this site and sign up: https://redhorizon.com/ >In case of tor and i2p there is at least some damn readable documentation. Tor, conceptually, is very simple. A junior dev can implement an onion router over a weekend. Urbit does a lot more than Tor, but it really consists of three things: 1) a purely functional virtual machine running the Nock low-level language 2) a hierarchical identity system with scarce identities (so you think twice before getting derezzed) 3) a p2p network to talk to other Urbits In practice, here's how this would look. Let's say you open the Talk app to chat with your friend. You run the app in your Urbit VM. You send content (like messages) directly to your friend via the end-to-end encrypted p2p network - no need for a central server in between. And you "authenticate" to your friend with your Urbit ID. No need to login with passwords or anything like that. Your Urbit IS your identity on the network. Of course, as a user you don't need to understand any of that. You just open the Talk app and chat. There's lots of other cool technical stuff it does that are nice compared to the regular old internet, but that should give you a basic overview.

So there's a lot of conspiracy theories about Urbit, but I was an early employee of Tlon and can tell you what's really going on. Urbit is a sort of Truman Show for designers to give them something to do. Tlon, the rightwing NGO that maintains Urbit, employs hundreds of designers, and only a small handful of techies, largely to keep up appearances. The irony that people think Urbit is a scam to steal your money, when in fact, it's a scam to inflate design, only pretending to be a scam to make money.

>>75004 "inflate design"? Could a project of that scale really move the needle on the job market for designers? Why would they want to do this?

>>75006 To stabilize the supply of art hoes in the sexual marketplace and to deradicalize them. It's not about making money, it's about building power

>>74348 Explain the point of the VM, and how the protocol garuntees all peers are running bona fide Urbit instances

>>74348 >scarce identities (so you think twice before getting b4nn3d) thank you for admitting its fuarrrking retarded and now i will never have to waste another minute of my life wondering if theres any good ideas in there to copy.

Urbit is already a big ball of mud, currently monitoring the next attempt: https://gist.github.com/wicrum-wicrun/b308b298721ccbe0de9c6c73a6ee4242

Is it just interpreter for hipster programming language with mediocre DNS bolted to it?

i used to be very active on there as ~bannum-magtus, but it lost me when it focussed so hard on ETH. I still have and wear my nock tshirt though