There was a little while in Urbit where people were speculating that Musk was going to switch twitter accounts to urbit ships.
This is sort of a tangent, but I find it interesting that the Musk+Twitter combo often attracts thoughts in this direction
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I think we all know that X/Twitter is a much better place now than it was before he bought it, and in the direction we value and he claims to value. But for we who were building and adapting replacements such as Urbit and Nostr, we know it doesn't go far enough. In many ways, the improvement is much like sealing up a gunshot wound without first removing the bullet.
I don't think he meant to do this, I'm not convinced he's a plant. But he has made fixing the social media landscape much more difficult by providing a half-measure that looks like a full one. And I think this is why it's a common thought.
Yea totally agreed.
The "half measures" thing where normies are satisfied and the real problems aren't actually solved is poison to principled, full solutions (and their chance at adoption).
I was just saying the other day that Apple's new "private, transient compute in the cloud" angle is likely to have a similar effect on truly private and sovereign remote durable execution (which is more or less a technical category that my company is working on).