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This is the first time anyone's ever explained Urbit in an even vaguely comprehensible way. It always seemed like a ridiculous, grandiose exercise in ideology-first development to me, similar to the eye-scanner crypto orb.

"Oh, a distributed platform for small scale server apps," sounds like a valuable but not earth-shattering idea.

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Like most platforms, it's valuable IFF a lot of people build on it. But the fact that I can make an on-topic, constructive and informative comment about it and still get downvoted tells you everything you need to know about how likely that is.

I think tech people often forget how important the human component is. Nobody wants to build their sandcastle in your sandbox if you're too weird or too much of an asshole.

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