Interesting, I appreciate this explanation from an "outsider". This actually sounds very similar to what I recently posted[0] on the sandstorm thread. Also, something I picked up from that thread, but haven't looked into much myself is Cloudron[1].

They're certainly less, um, ambitious than urbit, but sound like they might be on the same continent. At any rate, I really agree with the vision: "Imagine if every man, woman and child had their own server. Nothing fancy, just a cheap ECC instance or DigitalOcean droplet or something."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13589471 [1] https://cloudron.io/