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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by lisper on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:20PM (#12009594)
> To install and administer? Not so much.

I ask again: have you ever tried? Because installing WP can be as easy as:

sudo apt-get install wordpress

after which all the admin is done through a web interface.

> I don't know of anyone else who's even trying to attack the problem directly.

https://owncloud.org

https://mailinabox.email

https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by throwanem on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:44PM (#12009793)
Not for people already comfortable with VPSes and firewalls and SSH keys and command lines and apt-get. For everyone.

And that matters, because as I learned the hard way, being able to do it just for yourself isn't enough. A social network is social. If you're not on it and everyone else is, you still lose.

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