I read some urbit.com post that said ~"We want people to be able have control of their data without having to be linux sysadmins".
There's a societal cost to everyone having all their data sit one facebook's servers, and I can get behind the stated goal of building an easy-to-use alternative. I'm skeptical about Urbit being that, of course.
(The 'fringe elements' thing just seems like great marketing, especially for a potentially pseudonymous system. A: No such thing as bad publicity, B: There's a broad swathe of people newly few up with the last decade's trend of calling everything fascist.)
If this all leads to a working system and change towards people owning their data, yarvin will have earned every pompous essay he's ever written. I'm still 50/50 on it being a pyramid scheme, though.
There's a societal cost to everyone having all their data sit one facebook's servers, and I can get behind the stated goal of building an easy-to-use alternative. I'm skeptical about Urbit being that, of course.
(The 'fringe elements' thing just seems like great marketing, especially for a potentially pseudonymous system. A: No such thing as bad publicity, B: There's a broad swathe of people newly few up with the last decade's trend of calling everything fascist.)
If this all leads to a working system and change towards people owning their data, yarvin will have earned every pompous essay he's ever written. I'm still 50/50 on it being a pyramid scheme, though.