Yeah but the content has no life. There is no reason to put more than a paragraph worth of thought into any post as it will effectively disappear Ina day

Instead, you get an endless stream of low effort and introductory content.

Urbit ID solves this.

Scarce, stable IDs makes the cost of spamming much higher.

Nice ad hominem bro

As an early contributer to Urbit before I knew about the founders, I wish I could take back the work I did for them.

Ok fine, but you're not addressing the actual argument, which is that urbit solves the problems in this article. That's ad hominem. Is "racism" somehow ingrained in the project?

> They refuse to hire a woman, black or Latino developer explicitly.

I appreciate that you are making a specific accusation. Could you provide online evidence that would support it? This would indeed change my opinion of the project.

Perse can't because

(a) Urbit isn't a company, it's a fee software project

(b) Tlon does hire women: https://matildepark.ca/about/

> They refuse to hire a woman, black or Latino developer explicitly.

I appreciate that you are making a specific accusation. Could you provide online evidence that would support it? If demonstrated, this would change my opinion of the project from neutral to negative.

The artificial obscurity is obnoxious, but the fundamental concept behind the project strikes me as a rather sound one, even in the implementation is a little immature.

I genuinely believe that the obscurity is useful, and not artificial as far as computer languages go. I don't work for them, and I learned enough hoon to read it and make small changes.

I agree that it's useful. My understanding is that the project's unique nomenclature (but more importantly the way it presented itself) was specifically adopted in order to select for a community of early adopters whose minds were open to novel concepts, and who's initial investment to even begin engaging with it ensured a certain degree of loyalty, and created a somewhat closed community.

Urbit seems to be loosening up on a lot of that obscurity. Its elevstor pitch has really been refined, and its introductory posts do a solid job of easing you into the concepts and architecture of the project.

If you checked out Archive.org's earliest records for Urbit's website, it did a decent job of communicating the project's goal. However, by early 2014 its website had been rewritten such that it you could be forgiven for thinking it was some spiritual successor to templeOS, so far as it went to justify or describe itself as anything other than a jumble of conceptually interesting software components.

Moldbug did something similar with his writing in UR, or at least that's how he rationalized some of his rhetorical choices. He's brilliant, but I honestly find his writing a little obnoxious because of it.

Urbit is pretty fast these days. There's also plenty of anonymous people on the network. And a trans developer works at Tlon.

Using Eco’s work against Americans. Disgusting.

What are you even talking about, dude? It sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder or bought some propaganda.

It sounds like you have no idea what Urbit is based on.

Look if you have address space you want to give me I'm happy to take it.