Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by jonstaab on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:03PM
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Reading the Urbit documentation now, it's melting my face.
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by fossuser on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:30PM
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If you spin up a comet to check it out say hi in the general chat!
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by squarefoot on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:44PM
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I never heard of Urbit, but a search returns it got funding also from Peter Thiel, which is famous (among other things) for Palantir Technologies. I'm not sure I would trust it.
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by reilly3000 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:37AM
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It’s founder is a radical right libertarian/monarchist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
The system itself is built to be exclusionary, where it has a cap of 4.5 B users. I have owned a planet for a few years now and would love to part with it, but haven’t mad much luck on OpenSea.
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by xfhgjxcfgh on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:24AM
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>The system itself is built to be exclusionary, where it has a cap of 4.5 B users.
2^32 is exclusionary? I don't see an easy way to make planets more inclusive. You could replace planets with moons (2^64 max users), then usernames need to be twice as long. Would you make the network architecture use nine-bit "syllables" (2^(9*4) max users)? Things wouldn't run so well on our 64-bit hardware.
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid
by fossuser on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:24AM
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That cap can be increased if necessary it’s just a default, the reason to have non-zero cost ids to combat spam and accrue reputation makes sense.
I don’t agree with CY’s NRX politics (or much of Thiel’s for that matter - I think he was influenced by CY), but that’s unrelated to the merits of the tech and CY left the project in 2019.
Avoiding blockchain in the actual system design also gets rid of the storage-intensive protocol issue, it's my favorite approach of the attempts to pull off these decentralized systems. It's also the only one I thing could truly work at scale as a new underlying system that applications can be built on top of from those I've seen.
The ability to update code across the network and the built in incentives for infrastructure nodes (stars) are really interesting. I also think the functional OS design is pretty cool.