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Re:An Honest Look at Urbit by drfxyjhdyfrhgc on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:23AM (#28743370)
"Just running your own server" is the proper meaning of "decentralized" [0].

Urbit has a literal operating system named Arvo built on top of a virtual machine named Nock. The terms are used technically; it's not trying to compete with Windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_computing

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Re:An Honest Look at Urbit by smorgusofborg on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:49AM (#28744522)
That article goes straight into peer-to-peer and file sharing so it is hardly surprising that most people expect a decentralized platform to exist primarily to eliminate SPOFs, i.e. provide redundant access to data of down peers.
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