[ThrowAway123543]

> people definitely do choose their linux distributions based on ideology

Sure, sorry, I meant that it's not the norm, not that it never happens ever. My post was unnecessarily argumentative in tone, due to frustration with some past urbit discussions here.

> A network designed and organized based on a particular principle can impose that principle on the way that people on the network act

This is a very abstract point, which may be true in the general sense, but I was talking about Urbit in particular. Consider two assertions:

1. Urbit is so amazing and useful and wonderful that it's reasonable to imagine people all over the world using it every day for decades to come 2. The guy who wrote Urbit is racist/authoritarian/something else, as proven from a close textual analysis of his old blog posts

The point I was ranting about is that it seems like the truth or falsity of those two statements is completely separate, and that the former ought to be a lot more interesting than the latter. I don't think that's proven to be the case.