in some parts of the world germans still get a negative reaction because of their countries history.

it's unfair, but unfortunately showing that those influences in urbit are gone or were not even there in the first place, is going to be a long and hard battle.

it's similar to the problem blockchain has today. for no fault of the technology on its own, blockchain is tainted by the massive amount of scams in the space.

and as urbit also uses a blockchain too it now actually has two problems.

i appreciate you joining this discussion, but think about what you end up doing here. you spend energy defending the project against arguments that have nothing to do with its technology. energy that you probably would rather spend elsewhere.

but the reality is that you are likely going to have these arguments for the foreseeable future with many that might otherwise join the project.

and if you hide those issues you will be accused of doing that instead.

germany is doing a lot of selfcriticism in order to atone for its history and it's making an effort to welcome immigrants, and yet there are people who don't believe their intentions as well as there are some germans who still reject immigrants.

it is going to take a few more generations for germany to overcome this, as it is going to take a few decades for the blockchain to overcome its reputation as a scam. likewise urbit will require some effort to get rid of this ball and chains.

i do wish you success, and i sincerely hope that these non technical problems won't be an achilles heel that bring the project down