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Re:Urbit OS 1 by robenkleene on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:24PM (#23035648)
Cool thanks, in what sense is it distributed then?
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Re:Urbit OS 1 by wmf on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:29PM (#23035725)
Everybody having their own VPS is far more distributed than Facebook/Twitter/Slack but it's less distributed than some of the social blockchain systems. They have some good commentary on this point: https://urbit.org/blog/common-objections-to-urbit/#gov
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Re:Urbit OS 1 by robenkleene on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:36PM (#23035781)
Got it, so the social features are distributed (like Mastadon/Email are), but the OS install itself is not distributed?
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