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.
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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.