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> I’ve got my Urbit running on a native planet hardware box (https://martiancomputing.substack.com/p/product-review-nativ...) plugged into my router’s switch that I can access from anywhere.

This is the first time I'm hearing about Urbit and, having spent the past 5-10 minutes browsing their website(s), I still haven't been able to figure out what it is exactly. Could you explain? And what do you use it for?

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It’s a new OS design that runs in a runtime with baked in networking and PKI lookup for encrypted routes between users.

I primarily use it today for chat (similar to IRC), and I locally host my own system. Every user is their own server.

I wrote up a longer form description here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2022/09/28/tlon-urbit-computing-...

Hopefully that’s helpful. It’s a little outdated now though. We’re doing free hosting for now at tlon.io to help the network grow (so it’s easy to check it out).

The (long) original technical intro to the ideas is here: http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

If I ever join a cult, I hope it's one like Urbit.

Just kidding. Seems like a brilliant collection of ideas.

Thanks so much!

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