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The fundamental bad idea being that someone can create a space in which they have control over it and the people who willingly choose to participate in? Is Reddit a "bad thing" too?

It's not simple enough for anyone to understand because you aren't saying what the "fundamental bad ideas" are!

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Creating a space in which a set person has control isn't the problem, the problem is the limitation in who can control those spaces

Reddit doesn't make sense as a comparison because there are no limits to how many subreddits can be created, and communities split off from larger subreddits reasonably often when they don't like the rules.

In Urbit's system, you can't do that. If you don't like what the person at the top decides for your plebian self, then you're SOL.

This isn't really true. Anyone can make comets, which are low-trust entities but still can use the network without any parent at all. Stars and planets can move between their parent galaxy/stars respectively. There's so many stars it's very unlikely planets will be unable to find a host they're OK with, and while there's fewer galaxies, they've been distributed reasonably widely, to the point that for sure not all are controlled by the original creators and there's at least plausibly variation in thought among the owners. Beyond that it seems like your view of how stars/planets interact with their parents is more restrictive than reality, the intention is more infrastructure providers than the form of moderation you see in a subreddit.

The thing I think is most problematic is actually the numbers involved, specifically the fact that there's only 4 billion planets (still).

Reddit's admins place unwritten limits on what subreddits they will allow, and any splinter subreddits of banned communities are also banned on sight.

I'm not talking about banned communities, I'm talking about communities that didn't like the directions their moderators were taking.

You've badly misunderstood Urbit.

Once you have an Urbit identity, you control who you talk to and can create as many "subreddits" as you like.

Split away to your heart's content.

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