[zalequin]

Does it still require payment to get a “proper” identity? And if you actually want to run something, well, I hope you have your wallet ready…

And not to mention the insane efforts they put in to use uncommon and bizarre terms for everything.

imho, Urbit is a scam and a cult, created by a man with a serious hardon for monarchies (non other than Curtis Yarvin) who figured that he could create his own religion and become king. Or at least larp as one.

I tried it. I see no technical merit in it. What does it let me do I cant otherwise? Nothing. Even the things it does, it does poorly.

p.s. urbit threads on hn are full of duped accounts promoting the platform so beware.

[wmf]

Does it still require payment to get a “proper” identity?

Yes, scarce identities are an intentional anti-Sybil feature.

And if you actually want to run something, well, I hope you have your wallet ready…

Well yeah, CPUs do cost money. Or you could just run Urbit on the computer you already have. It's easy to say that computing should run on the kindness of strangers but those systems are even more immature than Urbit.

[riffic]

it's the TempleOS of the space.