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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:21:10 JST Sexy Moon
   Urbit Assembly this year is in October and in Lisbon, Portugal, I can't make it.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:24:00 JST Sexy Moon

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     • mothra
     @ten It's an entire VM and OS based around append-only state and written almost entirely in a type of lisp.
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     mothra (ten@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:24:01 JST mothra

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     @Moon WTF IS IT EVEN
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:25:09 JST Sexy Moon

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     • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶
     @adiz They are putting a lot of work into making it less obtuse and nebulous.
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     :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:25:10 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     @Moon@shitposter.club I do not understand Urbit (I do understand it, but I don't "get it" or comprehend what problems it's trying to solve outside of maybe DNS or whatever). I also think Urbit is intentionally nebulous and needlessly obtuse.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:27:39 JST Sexy Moon

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     • mothra
     @ten No not exactly. What it is is, they use an Ethereum NFT to represent ownership of an Urbit, until ownership is self-hosted in Urbit itself. So the NFT is the mechanism for transferring them around and buying/selling. Nothing else about Urbit incorporates or needs to know about the NFT, it's just there to make ownership not rely on a trusted middleman.
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     mothra (ten@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 02:27:40 JST mothra

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     @Moon dont you have to buy nfts to own a name or whatever
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 03:20:14 JST Sexy Moon

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     • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶
     @adiz I haven't read it but the guy who originally created Urbit, before that, had an blog of reactionary thought that for a while was pretty influential with American far right (not everyone, many hate him because he's part-Jewish.) You can even make some connection between his beliefs and the architecture of the project. But it's not more centralized than most other software project based around identity so it's kind of a red herring. He has divested of his control and ownership of Urbit and the project at every level is populated with sometimes eccentric but not too crazy of people.
     
     I enjoy playing with it as a hobby. But I went to one of their conventions when it was here in Florida and I met a ton of interesting people and it made me even more enthusiastic.
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     :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 03:20:15 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     @Moon@shitposter.club The Wikipedia page seems pretty dedicated to slandering the entire project outright just because the lead developer isn't a neoliberal.

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     mothra (ten@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 03:20:44 JST mothra

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     @Moon are there any projects on it yet
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 03:20:44 JST Sexy Moon

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     • mothra
     @ten there's a lot of building going on but the coolest projects haven't released yet.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 03:30:34 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @Moon do you need a planet to attend?