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Let's start with this... If you ran your own server, what sort of uses do you think you'd have for it?

Email, document sharing, custom web apps, etc, does urbit do this?

Not well, yet. But that's the plan. All in the blog post.

> All in the blog post.

Email and file sharing aren't mentioned. What can it do now?

It has a webserver and networking and it can access the filesystem and it can send messages to other users securely. There's also an ntalk kind of app and a simple threaded discussion things but they're more like demo apps than things you'd use intrinsically.

I think it's fair to say the only reason to run this is to develop for it right now, it's not something end users have a use for.

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