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The experiment was more or less continued when Rome, the creator of babels new company - spun out from fb and took on a pretty large amount of funding. There is questions on wether or not that is working though.

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It's also worth noting that the founder of Rome left the Babel project a long time ago and was not involved in this 2021 fundraising post.

It is also worth noting that Babel diverged a lot from his original vision, which is much closer to what he's doing with Rome:

https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1063574500493557760

He also had some criticism about this blog post, but ended up deleting his tweets:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115499

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