Re:Urbit Takeoff Is Here
by nohokum on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:03PM
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100% no.
On Urbit you have ~65,000 potential star sponsors and can switch at any time. (Worth noting: after a year and a half on the network, I have not heard of anyone being refused service by any star.)
That's a clear difference from today's internet, where effectively all discourse gets siphoned off, by a series of vicious megacorporation incentives -- the need to lock you in, the need to serve you up manipulative advertising -- onto the servers of one of four FAANG companies. (I think we can safely remove the N at this point, but then the acronym ends up looking rather seemly.)
On Urbit you have ~65,000 potential star sponsors and can switch at any time. (Worth noting: after a year and a half on the network, I have not heard of anyone being refused service by any star.)
That's a clear difference from today's internet, where effectively all discourse gets siphoned off, by a series of vicious megacorporation incentives -- the need to lock you in, the need to serve you up manipulative advertising -- onto the servers of one of four FAANG companies. (I think we can safely remove the N at this point, but then the acronym ends up looking rather seemly.)